No education, enjoy the same education under the same blue sky.
20021October 8 165438 The 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held, and it was proposed to vigorously develop education and science. Education is the basis of developing science and technology and cultivating talents. It plays a fundamental, leading and overall role in the modernization drive and must be placed in a strategic position of giving priority to development. It is not just a slogan to fully implement the Party's educational policy, persist in educational innovation, deepen educational reform and comprehensively promote quality education.
In order to implement the State Council's Decision on Further Strengthening Rural Education (Guo Fa [2003] 19), further promote the development of the western region, and achieve the goal of basically popularizing nine-year compulsory education and basically eliminating illiteracy among young people in the western region (hereinafter referred to as "two basics"), the General Office of the State Council has specially formulated the "Two basics" attack plan for the western region of the country (2004-2007) In 2004, the "two basics" attack plan for the western region of the country was launched; In 2006, the state exempted students from tuition and miscellaneous fees in rural compulsory education in western China, subsidized public funds for schools, provided textbooks free of charge, and subsidized boarding students' living expenses; At the end of 2007, the "two basics" plan was completed as scheduled; By the end of 2008, there were 283 1 counties (cities, districts) in China, accounting for 99. 1% of the total number of counties in China, and the population coverage rate of "two basics" in China reached 99.3%.
With the implementation of the "two basics", children under the same blue sky can enjoy education regardless of category. Those "big eyes" eager to go to school are gradually replaced by smiling faces. We can see that children in rural areas can also run happily on the brand-new modern plastic playground. Left-behind children live in newly-built boarding buildings without spending a penny. "Free of miscellaneous fees, books, and gradually subsidizing the living expenses of boarders" has made thousands of families in Qian Qian no longer worry about their children's tuition increase. Rural primary school students also have free lunch and milk at school.
Implement compulsory education
The government pays the children's tuition.
On 10, those receipts for school payment have become history; 10, the teaching building is dilapidated, the playground is muddy, and the poor children who lack books and food are slowly disappearing. 10, the voice of "compulsory education" gradually weakened, and this word that appeared in the literature of the Qing Dynasty has become a reality.
In 2006, the state exempted students from tuition and miscellaneous fees in compulsory education in western rural areas; In the spring of 2007, 654.38+0.5 billion students benefited from the policy of "two exemptions and one subsidy"; In the autumn of 2008, tuition and miscellaneous fees for urban compulsory education were exempted nationwide, covering 654.38+0.6 billion students in urban and rural areas.
Compulsory education is well deserved, and the government pays for children to go to school.
1993 The Outline of Education Reform and Development in China, issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council, points out that the proportion of national fiscal education expenditure to GDP is 4%. However, due to the rapid growth of GDP in China and the low proportion of fiscal revenue in GDP, this goal has not been achieved as scheduled. In recent years, this proportion has been rising.
In 2006-2007, the central government subsidized more than 600 million yuan to recruit 32,300 special post teachers, covering more than 4,000 rural schools in more than 400 counties in the western region. In 2008, free compulsory education in urban and rural areas was fully implemented, and textbooks were provided free of charge to all rural compulsory education students. The national student aid system has been further improved, with the central government investing 22.3 billion yuan and local governments increasing their investment to help more than 20 million students.
In 2009, the national education expenditure increased significantly, including the central government expenditure of 1, 986,5438+0 billion yuan, an increase of 23.6% over the previous year. The proportion of national fiscal education expenditure to GDP is 3.59%, and this proportion is further increased in 20 10, reaching 3.66%.
20 1 1 year, the central government arranged 10 billion yuan to promote the safety project of primary and secondary school buildings nationwide and start the nutrition improvement plan for rural compulsory education students. Every year, the central government allocates special funds of1600 million yuan to provide more than 26 million rural compulsory education students in 680 pilot counties with nutritional and dietary subsidies of 3 yuan dollars per day.
According to statistics, in the past 10 years, the central government invested about 500 billion yuan to implement free compulsory education. Judging from the total investment in education, the total investment in national education funds increased from 548 billion yuan in 2002 to 20 10/0.96 trillion yuan, an increase of 3.6 times, with an average annual growth of about 17%.
What is more gratifying is that in 20 12, the central government has budgeted according to the national fiscal expenditure on education accounting for 4% of GDP, and local governments have made corresponding arrangements to ensure the realization of this goal. This means that China is expected to achieve this commitment for the first time since 1993 put forward the goal.
These data are exciting and let more families see hope. Because of education, many poor students have stepped out of poverty and set foot on desirable jobs, thus changing their own and their families' fate.
Higher education becomes mass education.
Enlightenment education and primary education have received due attention, and higher education to cultivate students' vocational skills and academic talents has also been raised to a historical height. Starting from the freshmen who entered the school in the autumn of 2007, the state has implemented free education for normal students in six normal universities directly under the Ministry of Education. In 20 1 1 year alone, 48,200 people received free education for normal students, and the central government subsidized 535 million yuan. /kloc-since 0/0, higher education has developed from "elite education" to "mass education".
The admission rate of college entrance examination in 20 12 years exceeded 75%. Nowadays, students from poor areas get more care. The Ministry of Education, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the the State Council Poverty Alleviation Office jointly issued the Notice on Implementing the Special Plan for Targeted Enrollment in Poverty-stricken Areas, and students in poverty-stricken areas got an extra 1 10,000 indicators, increasing the admission rate of one book by 10%.
According to the data analysis of the Ministry of Education in 2002-20 1 10, the growth rate of the college entrance examination in the central and western regions exceeded the national average, and the gap between the lowest admission rate in each province and the national average was further narrowed.
In 2003, the proportion of rural household registration candidates admitted to colleges and universities was the same as that of urban candidates for the first time, while rural household registration candidates accounted for 53% of the total undergraduate enrollment in 20 1 1 year.
Since 10, the number of college admissions has increased at an average annual rate of 12.8%, among which the number of rural candidates has increased at an average annual rate of 15.4%, and the number of undergraduate students has increased at an average annual rate of1.9%, among which the number of rural candidates has increased at an average annual rate of14.0.
Recently, the Ministry of Education, together with the People's Bank of China and the Ministry of Finance, issued a document to promote the financial aid card for ordinary senior high school students throughout the country after issuing a notice requiring 20 12 ordinary high school students to enroll in schools and receive various kinds of financial aid. Both documents focus on one thing, that is, to let poor students have books to read and read good books.
The country is strong when teenagers are strong, and the nation is prosperous when education is prosperous. The full implementation of free and compulsory education in urban and rural areas is a historic feat of our developing country, and the continuous popularization of higher education will have a great and far-reaching impact on comprehensively improving the quality of the people. With the continuous development of education in China, the Chinese nation will surely usher in a better tomorrow on the journey of great rejuvenation.