CRC/C/CHN/CO/2 page 15 (b) Increase the allocation of resources to education in step with increases in GDP, as directed by the Education Law, and target those resources towards ensuring that all children, in particular girls, children with learning difficulties, and ethnic minority and migrant children, complete nine years of compulsory education and have equal access to early childhood education and development programmes; (c) Promote the development of flexible learning systems so that children who have dropped out of school, in particular because of poverty or migration, are able to complete compulsory education and earn appropriate accreditation through non-formal channels, and also ensure the availability and accessibility of suitable technical and vocational education and training; (d) Ensure that all teaching and learning materials for the primary and secondary level are also available in ethnic minority languages and with culturally sensitive content; (e) Further strengthen efforts to improve the quality of education, including through teacher training and the improvement of teacher-student ratios; (f) Strengthen the implementation of its policy of “all-round development”, in particular through the development of a curriculum promoting children’s active learning capacities and which also includes a focus on a child’s right to play and leisure; (g) Seek technical assistance in this regard from, inter alia, UNICEF and relevant national agencies. 78. In the Hong Kong SAR, the Committee recommends that the State party: (a) education; Develop programmes aimed at addressing the dropout rates in secondary (b) Further strengthen existing programmes aimed at addressing violence in schools, including with the participation of students themselves; (c) Enhance the quality of education in a manner that seeks to reduce the competitiveness of the education system and promotes active learning capacities and the right of a child to play and leisure. 79. In the Macau SAR, the Committee encourages the State party to expedite its plans to expand free compulsory education to 12 years’ duration. The Committee requests further information on the quality of education and programmes aimed at reducing violence in schools in the next periodic report. 7. Special protection measures Refugee and migrant children 80. The Committee notes the efforts made by the State party to allow the approximately 300,000 Indochinese refugees to settle permanently in mainland China. However, it is

Select target paragraph3