On July 30th, 2008, Premier Wen Jiabao of the State Council presided over the the State Council executive meeting to study and deploy the work of completely exempting students from tuition and miscellaneous fees in urban compulsory education. The meeting decided that starting from the fall semester of 2008, all tuition and miscellaneous fees for students in urban compulsory education will be exempted nationwide. We will continue to provide free textbooks for students in compulsory education who enjoy the minimum living guarantee policy for urban residents, and subsidize living expenses for boarders with financial difficulties.

To deepen the reform of rural compulsory education funds guarantee mechanism is to solve the problem of rural compulsory education funds guarantee from the system and mechanism and bring rural compulsory education into the scope of financial guarantee. It can also be said that schools in rural compulsory education stage are the biggest beneficiaries of the new mechanism, no matter from the aspects of responsibility, obligation and interest.

Our rural primary and secondary schools should stand on the standpoint of protecting the legitimate rights and interests of schools and students, objectively, truly, comprehensively and meticulously reflect the basic needs of school education and teaching for funds, and actively compile school budgets. Management is the key to the successful implementation of the new mechanism. Therefore, we should take this reform as an opportunity to establish and improve the standardized budget system of rural primary and secondary schools, and ensure that every expenditure of the school is well-founded, value for money, guaranteed, effective and supervised.

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Recently, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Finance jointly issued opinions on providing free textbooks for compulsory education in urban and rural areas and recycling some textbooks. This marks the further expansion of the implementation scope of the free textbook policy and the full coverage of all regions of the country.

The opinion requires that from the spring semester of 20 17, the central government will provide national curriculum materials free of charge to students in urban and rural compulsory education throughout the country; Local curriculum textbooks compiled and selected by local organizations are provided to students in compulsory education free of charge, and the required funds are borne by local finance; The purchase of free textbooks should be carried out in accordance with the relevant legal system of government procurement.

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People's Network free compulsory education textbooks cover urban and rural areas throughout the country.