By 1998, there were 6,100 different kinds of schools in Ningxia, with a total of 1.3 million students. Among them there were five institutions of higher learning, with 11,000 students. As a result, in this region 89.5 percent of the people are literate.

• 截至1998年，宁夏全区有各级各类学校6100多所，在校生达130多万人，其中普通高等学校5所，在校生有1.；1万多人，全区非文盲率达到89