【Higher Education】
By the end of 2009, there were 36 general colleges and universities with 429,800 students, up by 4.9% over the previous year, including 35,700 graduate students, in which 7,700 doctoral candidates. The gross enrollment rate of colleges and universities was 53.58%, increased 1.64 percentage points than the previous year.

Promoting Innovation of Municipal Universities' Systems and Mechanisms
In recent years, Hangzhou Normal University Alibaba Business School, Hangzhou Institute of International Service, Microsoft IT Academy and the International Animation College were founded through schoolenterprise cooperation, etc; Hangzhou Vocational and Technical College established the Youjia Electrical and Mechanical College, Dali Women's Garment Institute, and built practical, entrepreneurial talents open local higher education system actively.

Encouraging and Guiding Students Employment and Business
The implementation of the employment of college graduates "nine plan and a platform" work star ted (10,000 students training program, Business to improve employment plan, The plan of the employment of college graduates to companies, institutions recruitment college graduates plans, rural and community recruitment college graduates program, College academic upgrading program, public employment Service to campus program, Students work experience program, unemployment and the needy families college graduates helping plan, Employment business online service platform of college graduates in Hangzhou), and issued the education and training coupons to guide students to par ticipate in vocational skills training to enhance the college graduates' employment and business capacities.

【General Education】
By the end of 20 09, the enrol lment r ate of the kindergar tens for the children 3 years before school age reached 97.4%. The number of elementary schools totaled 417 in the city, 252 junior middle schools as well as 75 senior secondary schools. The city's nineyear compulsory school attendance rate reached 100%, and the high school enrollment rate reached 99.1%.The strategy of "Mainly in public schools, schools for migrant workers' children as a supplement" properly resolved the children of migrant workers in Hangzhou 174,600, accounted for 25.5%.

【Vocational Education】
The vocational education's six action plans promoted fully. By the end of 2009, there were 18 vocational Colleges, 106,200 students. The city's secondary vocational schools was 63 (including the vocational high School, specialized secondary school, technical school), 104,900 students. Ac tively promote the modernization of vocational education professional, there are three national model professional, 41 provincial-level model professional, five national skills shortage of talent training base, 27 provinciallevel secondary vocational school training bases, 2 provincial public vocational school training base.

【Adult Education】
By the end of 2009, there were 5 adult collages with 131,000 students. The number of adult middle schools reached 17 with 25,400 students. Of the total, there were 353 vocational and technical training institutions with 429,700 students.