According to Article 3 of the Interim Measures for the Administration of Fees in Compulsory Education Schools, students receiving compulsory education are free of tuition fees and only pay miscellaneous fees.
Article 4 Miscellaneous expenses shall be determined according to a certain proportion of public funds necessary for school study, including official expenses and business expenses. There should be less fees and an upper limit.
Article 5 The examination and approval authority for miscellaneous fees standards is the provincial people's government. The provincial education department puts forward opinions, and the price department shall, jointly with the financial department, review according to the local economic development level, school conditions and residents' economic affordability. After the three departments jointly report to the provincial people's government for approval, the education department will organize the implementation.
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Take Chengdu as an example:
The Chengdu Education Bureau, the Chengdu Development and Reform Commission and the Chengdu Finance Bureau jointly issued a notice on matters related to the charging items and standards of public primary and secondary schools in Chengdu.
According to the notice, in the compulsory education stage, the accommodation fee standard is limited to schools in Chengdu High-tech Zone, Jinjiang District, Qingyang District, jinniu district, chenghua district and Wuhou District, and other districts (cities) and counties are exempted. The high school registration examination fee is charged by the city, district (city) and county education examination institutions to the students who graduated from the third grade and voluntarily participated in the high school education entrance examination. The charging standard is 60 yuan for each student.
Ordinary high schools charge tuition fees according to school types, such as 460 yuan/semester of provincial and above model high schools, 340 yuan/semester of municipal model high schools, 280 yuan/semester of ordinary high schools and 200 yuan/semester of rural high schools. Accommodation fees are charged to students who stay in school. Every student in general courses is 5 yuan, and every student in computer courses is 6 yuan.