According to reports, the reporter learned from the Ministry of Education that the Ministry of Education, the National Bureau of Statistics and the Ministry of Finance recently issued a statistical announcement on the implementation of national education funds in 20 16. The announcement shows that the national fiscal education expenditure is 313,962.5 billion yuan, exceeding 3 trillion yuan for the first time, and the proportion of GDP has remained above 4% for five consecutive years since it first exceeded 4% in 20 12.

According to statistics, the total investment of national education funds in 20 16 was 3,888.839 billion yuan, an increase of 7.64% over the previous year's 3,665.438+0,296.5438+0.9 billion yuan. The national fiscal expenditure on education was 31396.25 billion yuan, which exceeded 3 trillion yuan for the first time, an increase of 7.44% over the previous year's 292,265,438+45 million yuan, accounting for 4.22% of the GDP.

In addition, the national public finance education funds (including education funds, capital construction funds and education surcharge) amounted to 2,770.063 billion yuan, an increase of 7. 1 1% over the previous year. Among them, the central financial expenditure on education was 443.968 billion yuan, an increase of 4.57% over the previous year. The proportion of national public finance education expenditure to public finance expenditure 187755. 1 100 million yuan is 14.75%, which is 0.05 percentage points higher than that of the previous year.

According to the statistical announcement, in 20 16, the average growth rate of education expenditure in the national public budget was 8. 14%, 10.83%, 13.8 1% and 65438 respectively. The average growth rate of public expenditure in the national public budget of ordinary primary schools, junior high schools, senior high schools, secondary vocational schools and ordinary colleges and universities is 7.25%, 5.98%, 9.4 1%, 9.93% and -2.57% respectively.