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How to promote the balanced development of compulsory education in urban and rural areas in China?
China is in an important transition period of economic and social development, with unbalanced economic and social development in various places, prominent contradiction between urban and rural dual structure, and the gap between urban and rural areas, regions and schools in compulsory education still exists. Among them, the most important problem is that the gap between urban and rural areas and between counties is still large, and some provinces are still expanding. Experts suggest that governments at all levels must be urged to earnestly perform their educational duties, increase and rationally allocate public education resources, strive to narrow the gap in compulsory education, and promote the balanced development of compulsory education. The measures are as follows: 1. Improve the investment system of compulsory education (1) and increase the total investment in education. Governments at all levels must increase financial support for education, increase the proportion of education funds in GDP, strive to reach the level of more than 4% in developing countries as soon as possible, and ensure the "three growth" of compulsory education funds, that is, the growth of central and local compulsory education funds is higher than the growth of recurrent fiscal revenue; The per capita cost of compulsory education for students has gradually increased; The salary of compulsory education teachers and the public funds per student have increased year by year. Only by giving full play to the role of government finance as the main channel of education investment and increasing the proportion of government sharing in China's education cost can we fundamentally solve the serious shortage of education funds in China. (2) The focus of the government's investment in compulsory education has moved up? Reasonably arrange the proportion of central and local compulsory education investment and learn from foreign experience, and establish that the proportion of central financial investment in compulsory education funds is about 50%; The proportion of provincial government investment is about 30%; City and county governments share 20% of the remaining compulsory education funds. This ratio is more scientific and reasonable, which is more conducive to the balanced and coordinated development of compulsory education in China. ? The central or provincial government pays the salaries of compulsory education teachers, so as to reduce the financial pressure of local governments, especially county-level governments, and make county-level governments invest more education funds in improving education and teaching conditions, stabilizing teachers and improving teachers' quality. 2. Establish a standardized financial transfer payment system for compulsory education. The financial transfer payment of compulsory education refers to the financial subsidy given by the higher level government to the lower level government for the development of compulsory education. The purpose is to make up the financial gap of compulsory education in lower levels of government and solve the financial imbalance of compulsory education among regions. Compulsory education has the nature of public goods and strong external effects, and the government must bear the greatest or full responsibility for the development of compulsory education. There is a big gap in economic development between the east and the west of China. In order to maintain the fairness of compulsory education, the central government must increase the financial transfer payment for compulsory education in the central and western regions. At present, there are many problems in the financial transfer payment system of compulsory education in China. For example, the amount of special transfer payment is small and narrow, and most of them are one-time investments, which cannot narrow the gap between regions in regular funds; Lack of standardized management and supervision mechanism, compulsory education transfer payment is misappropriated and intercepted; The design of matching proportion in matching subsidy is unreasonable, so it is necessary to establish a standardized financial transfer payment system for compulsory education. The measures that can be taken include: increasing special transfer payment to make it a stable source of compulsory education funds; Implement the supervision mechanism of compulsory education transfer payment to prevent transfer payment from being misappropriated; Draw lessons from foreign experience and formulate a scientific and reasonable calculation system for compulsory education transfer payment. 3. To implement the counterpart support mechanism of urban and rural compulsory education and accelerate the development of compulsory education in the central and western regions and rural areas, it is necessary to strengthen the construction of school teachers. In order to solve the problem of insufficient number and low level of teachers in the central and western regions and rural areas, especially the shortage of backbone teachers, establish an urban-rural exchange system between schools and teachers in the eastern and western regions and provide counterpart support; Establish a system of regular inter-school mobility and regular rotation of principals and backbone teachers within the county, promote the balanced development of school teachers, narrow the gap in resource allocation between urban and rural teachers, and accelerate the balanced development of urban and rural compulsory education. Education authorities should also encourage outstanding graduates and teachers to teach in rural schools through some preferential policies, and at the same time send teachers from schools in the central and western regions and rural schools to high-quality schools for study. 4. Developing and perfecting the rural distance education project with the development of modern science and technology, especially the rapid development of the Internet, has made outstanding contributions to improving the quality of education and teaching in western and rural areas. We can make full use of distance education resources and realize resource sharing. Rural schools can organize teachers to learn to imitate the teaching of famous teachers by watching teaching CDs, so as to improve the teaching level of local teachers according to local conditions. However, in this process, it is necessary to greatly improve the educational technology ability of teachers in western and rural areas, and it is necessary to carry out special educational technology training for teachers. In addition, at present, China's distance education resources are relatively scarce, which requires the state to increase investment in distance education resources, speed up the construction of educational information resources, and make distance education make greater contributions to the balanced development of urban and rural compulsory education. Realizing the balance between urban and rural compulsory education is a huge social system project, and the state must formulate corresponding policies and regulations to ensure the implementation of the balance between urban and rural compulsory education. In addition, there must be the participation of the whole society. I believe that through the unremitting efforts of educators, this goal will be realized at an early date.