From 1993 to 1997, the growth rate of university tuition in China is 27.65%. However, since 1999, the average annual tuition fee of ordinary colleges and universities in China has increased to 2769 yuan, an increase of 40.3% compared with 1998, and the tuition fee also accounts for about 13% of the national public general higher education funds in that year.

Later (after 1999), the tuition fee soared at the rate of several hundred yuan or even thousands of yuan per year, until the average tuition fee reached about 5,000 yuan in 2000. Accommodation fees have also gone up, and almost all the dormitories with a price of 200 to 300 yuan have risen to around 1,000 yuan.