Compulsory education is a compulsory education for all school-age children and adolescents and a public welfare undertaking that the state must guarantee. The quality of compulsory education is related to the healthy growth of hundreds of millions of children, the development of the country and the future of the nation.

Its essence is a system of compulsory education for school-age children and adolescents for a certain period of time in accordance with the provisions of the law. Compulsory education is also called compulsory education and free compulsory education. Compulsory education has the basic characteristics of compulsory, free, universal and secular.

Legal basis: Interim Measures for the Administration of Fees in Compulsory Education Schools

Eleventh compulsory education schools should strengthen the management of fees, fees approved by the government, to open the charging items and standards, accept the supervision of the masses and society. The management of education fees is jointly responsible by the education, price and finance departments at all levels.

Education, price and finance departments at all levels should strengthen the management and supervision of compulsory education schools' fees, urge schools to strictly implement national policies and regulations on the management of education fees, establish and improve the rules and regulations on the management of fees, and severely investigate and deal with acts such as adding fees without authorization, expanding the scope of fees and raising fees standards, and misappropriating miscellaneous fees in accordance with relevant state regulations.

If the arbitrary charges are repeatedly prohibited, repeatedly investigated and committed, and the circumstances are serious, the person in charge of the school shall be given administrative sanctions according to the relevant provisions of the state.

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Although tuition fees are not charged, miscellaneous fees and borrowing fees are charged:

Interim Measures for the Administration of Fees in Compulsory Education Schools

Article 9 In the compulsory education stage, students shall not be charged any fees except miscellaneous fees and borrowing fees without the joint approval of the Ministry of Finance, the State Planning Commission and the State Education Commission or the approval of the provincial people's government. Students have the right to refuse to pay more than the prescribed amount.

Tenth miscellaneous fees, loan fees as special funds, by the financial department of the school separate accounting, unified management. Compulsory education fees and tuition income should be used to supplement the shortage of public funds in schools, and not used for teachers' salaries, welfare, infrastructure and other expenses, and no department, unit or individual may occupy or misappropriate them. The income and expenditure of miscellaneous fees and tuition fees should be reported to the competent education department and the finance and price departments step by step.

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