Public-private partnership Strangely, although English has become the international language, more and more non-Chinese families have been enrolling their children in Chinese-medium primary schools in recent years. It is generally estimated that some 60,000 non-Chinese children attend Malaysia's 1200 Chinese primary schools, accounting for about one-tenth of all students.
官民牽手雖然英文已是國際語言，但奇怪的是，近年卻有愈來愈多的非華裔家庭將孩子送往華小就讀，一般估計，一千二百多所華小中，已有高達 6 萬名非華裔孩子，佔華小總人數的十分之一。