In recent years, the proportion of national fiscal education expenditure in GDP has remained above 4% continuously. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Education, in 20 17, the total investment in national education funds reached 4,255.7 billion yuan, an increase of 9.43% over the previous year. Among them, the national financial education expenditure was 3,420.4 billion yuan, an increase of 8.94% over the previous year.
The data shows that in 20 17, the total per capita education expenditure of kindergartens, ordinary primary schools, ordinary junior high schools, ordinary senior high schools, secondary vocational schools and ordinary colleges and universities all increased over the previous year, with the growth rates of 13.2 1%, 6.82%, 9.60% and 10 respectively. The investment in education is increasing, the educational resources are getting better and better, and the learning path is getting wider and wider.
From the founding of New China to the early days of reform and opening up, actions such as eliminating illiteracy among young and middle-aged people and popularizing nine-year compulsory education have made learning no longer a problem.
In 1978, the net enrollment rate of primary school was 94%, and the gross enrollment rate of junior high school was 66.4%, while in 20 17, these two figures reached 99.9% and 103.5% respectively.
20 17 national statistical bulletin on education development shows that at present, there are 654.38+45 million students and 9.4936 million full-time teachers in compulsory education in China.
Since 20 13, the country started the supervision, evaluation and identification of counties (cities, districts) with basically balanced development of compulsory education, about 260,000 schools have been built, rebuilt and expanded, with 27.25 million new places, 6,543,800 teachers and 2.43 million principals and teachers participating in the exchange.
By the end of 20 17, 2379 counties (cities, districts) were identified through supervision and evaluation, accounting for 8 1%, and1province (district, city) was identified through supervision and evaluation as a whole.
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The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China put forward clear requirements for the development of higher education: "Accelerate the construction of first-class universities and first-class disciplines, and realize the connotative development of higher education."
At the beginning of this year, the Ministry of Education issued the "National Standards for the Teaching Quality of Undergraduate Majors in Colleges and Universities", which set clear requirements for the training objectives, training specifications, teaching staff, teaching conditions and quality assurance system of colleges and universities.
Not long ago, a national conference on undergraduate education in colleges and universities in the new era was held, emphasizing speeding up the construction of high-level undergraduate education and comprehensively improving the ability of talent cultivation.
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