In general, all types of courses witnessed a steady increasing, except for literacy courses, fell slightly in 2010.

In the other hand, the proportion of students on undergraduate courses shown the highest increase throughout the period

Undergraduate courses engaged far much more learners than any another type throughout the entire period.

This type of course is the only one which showed a downward trend , begin with just over 1.5 million students in 2008 then dip to almost 0 by 2010.

Online learning courses appear to have been gaining increasing interest, reached almost 5 million learners by the end of the period.

The first key feature show that literacy courses had lowest number of participants overall for the whole period.

....and increased moderatively from 2008 to 2012, end with around 2 million and 5 million participants respectively in 2012.

The graph demonstrates the number of people enrol on four different types of educational course in China on the period 2008 to 2012. (2)

Overall, with the exception at literacy, the number of students on all the other courses climb gradually...

Similarly, numbers of students enrol as postgraduates and using online courses followed a same upward trend

The numbers for both postgraduates and literacy courses started at the same point in 2008, but while the farmer showed a slight rise, the later decreased to almost zero in 2010 and then recovered back to around 2 million in 2012.

..and numbers on this type of course increasing steadily from around 19 millions in 2008 to 23 millions in 2012.

Uptake rised slightly in 2012 to just under a million but this course type remained the lowest in term of student numbers.