The second is to implement the "National Compulsory Education Project in Poverty-stricken Areas". 1995-2000 During the period, the State Education Commission and the Ministry of Finance organized and implemented the "National Compulsory Education Project in Poverty-stricken Areas" with special funds from the central government and matching funds from local governments at all levels. First, this project invests financial resources in national poverty-stricken counties and gives due consideration to provincial poverty-stricken counties. The proportion of central funds invested in state-level poverty-stricken counties is not less than 70%; When selecting project counties, the number and population of national poverty-stricken counties shall not be less than 70% of the total number of project counties or the total population covered by the project. During the Ninth Five-Year Plan period, the national plan for popularizing compulsory education requires that nine-year compulsory education should be popularized in areas accounting for 85% of the total population, five to six years of primary education should be popularized in areas accounting for more than 95% of the total population, and three to four years of primary education should be popularized in other areas. According to the objectives and requirements of step-by-step implementation in the above three areas, the "project" first ensures the popularization of 6-year primary education in the project counties, and on this basis, takes into account the popularization of 9-year compulsory education in some areas. This "project" has been implemented in two regions and will be fully implemented in three regions from 65438 to 0998. These three regions include Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, Ningxia, Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang and Tibet. The central government will invest 2.2 billion yuan and local matching funds will exceed 5 billion yuan in the "National Compulsory Education Project in Poverty-stricken Areas" implemented by nine provinces and regions. The launch of this project will play an important role in promoting the popularization of compulsory education in poverty-stricken areas of ethnic minorities.
Third, use various channels to help poor minority counties develop basic education. For example, in order to improve the conditions for running primary and secondary schools in ethnic minority areas, the World Bank loan project has been implemented four times, covering five autonomous regions in Yunnan, Guizhou, Qinghai, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan and Gansu provinces and nearly 200 poverty-stricken ethnic minority counties, and arranging foreign aid loans of nearly 200 million US dollars. There is also the "Hope Project" to support the development of basic education in minority areas. For example, in 1995, 136 Hope Primary Schools were built in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Hunan Province, which solved the problem of tens of thousands of poor minority children dropping out of school.