By cities, economically developed areas in coastal provincial-level units, and a small number of developed interior areas approximately 25 percent of China's population and areas where junior middle schools were already popularized were targeted to have universal junior-middle-school education.
Ngamadolobha ayi-1990, izindawo ezithuthuke ngokomnotho ezindaweni ezigudle ugu zezifundazwe, kanye nenani elincane lezindawo ezingaphakathi ezithuthukisiwe (cishe amaphesenti angama-25 eningi labantu baseChina) nezindawo lapho izikole ezincane eziphakathi zazivele zithandwa kakhulu kwakuhloswe ukuba zibe nemfundo yasesikoleni esiphakathi naphakathi nendawo .