The National Rural Education Development Center takes the overall development of agriculture, rural areas and farmers as its primary task, actively implements the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China's relevant policies in the agricultural field, and plays a bridge role for the Central Rural Work Leading Group to promote local development of agriculture, rural areas and farmers and new urbanization.
Legal basis: Opinions of Ministry of Finance, National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Education and Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security on tuition-free work for students from poor families in rural areas and students majoring in agriculture in secondary vocational schools.
Developing vocational education is an important foundation for China's economic and social development and a strategic focus of education. Gradually implementing the policy of free secondary vocational education is an important way to implement the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education and strengthening the country through talents, comprehensively improve the quality of the people, and turn China's huge population pressure into human resources advantages; It is an effective means to optimize the educational structure and promote educational equity and social justice; It is an important measure to promote China's new industrialization road, build a new socialist countryside, adjust industrial structure, and promote employment and re-employment; This is another important event to promote education equity after exempting all tuition and miscellaneous fees for students in urban and rural compulsory education, which has important practical and far-reaching historical significance.
At present, the vast majority of students in secondary vocational schools in China come from rural areas, and a considerable number of them come from low-income families. The tuition-free work of secondary vocational education starts with students from poor families in rural areas and students majoring in agriculture, which plays an important role in reducing farmers' burden, enhancing the attractiveness of secondary vocational education, encouraging high-quality workers to start businesses in rural areas, improving the rural labor structure, accelerating the construction of new countryside, developing modern agriculture, developing rural economy and narrowing the gap between urban and rural areas.