Education investment is a basic and strategic investment to support the long-term development of the country, an important material basis for the development of education and the focus of public financial security. The CPC Central Committee and the State Council always insist on giving priority to the development of education, attach great importance to increasing financial investment in education, and have successively issued a series of policies and measures to increase financial investment in education.

Under the new situation, it is an urgent need to continue to increase financial investment in education and achieve the goal of 4%, to thoroughly implement the spirit of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Fifth Plenary Session of the 17th Central Committee, to promote scientific development and to build a powerful country with human resources. It is an important guarantee for fully implementing the outline of education planning and promoting the priority development of education. It is an urgent task to fulfill the function of public finance, accelerate the reform of fiscal and taxation system and improve the basic public service system.

Local people's governments at all levels and relevant departments should conscientiously implement the Party's educational policy, deeply understand the significance of increasing financial investment in education, further improve their ideological understanding, enhance their sense of responsibility and urgency, and take effective measures to ensure that economic and social development planning gives priority to ensuring educational development, financial funds give priority to ensuring educational investment, and public resources give priority to meeting the needs of education and human resources development.

Extended data

1. The primary function of education is to promote individual development, including individual socialization and individualization;

2. The most basic function of education is to influence the change of social talent system and economic development. Modern society emphasizes that the economic function of education mainly includes: providing a good background for the sustained and stable development of the economy; Improve the potential labor ability of the educated; Form ideas, attitudes and behaviors that adapt to modern economic life;

3. The social function of education is to cultivate talents for the development of the country and serve the political and economic development of the country.

The most far-reaching function of education is to influence the development of culture. Education should not only convey culture, but also meet the requirements of the continuation and renewal of culture itself.

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