Because compulsory education is a universal, compulsory and free school education for all school-age children and adolescents according to law, it is the basis for improving the quality of the people and the starting point for realizing social equity.

Compulsory education has always been the top priority of China's educational reform and development. At the beginning of this century, China achieved the goal of popularizing nine-year compulsory education, and first solved the problem of "education" for school-age children and adolescents according to law.

Function:

Promoting the balanced development of compulsory education in urban and rural areas will gradually narrow the gap between urban and rural areas with the whole process of urban-rural integration development; Promoting the balanced development of compulsory education between regions will be accompanied by the whole process of solving the problem of regional economic and social imbalance and improving the education level in the central and western regions.

Expand teaching materials and deepen the reform of rural compulsory education funding guarantee mechanism;

1. All students in rural compulsory education are exempted from tuition and miscellaneous fees, textbooks are provided free of charge to students from poor families, and living allowance is given to boarders.

2. Improve the level of public funds for primary and secondary schools in rural compulsory education.

3. Establish a long-term mechanism for the maintenance and renovation of primary and secondary schools in rural compulsory education.

4. Consolidate and improve the wage guarantee mechanism for rural primary and secondary school teachers.

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