Chinese Minister of Education Chen Baosheng on Tuesday promised to increase public spending and support for preschool education. The ministry will set a standard for public spending on state-run kindergartens and subsidies for private kindergartens for each child. And measures will be adopted to guarantee salaries and benefit for preschool teachers and to increase their professional qualifications. File photo taken on June 23, 2017 shows that a girl of a Mongolian kindergarten does exercise during a break in Darhan Muminggan United Banner, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Over 300,000 students of ethnic minorities in Inner Mongolia receive bilingual education, mainly in Chinese and Mongolian, in 502 ethnic kindergartens and schools. (Xinhua/Ren Junchuan)