Where is the funding for national fiscal education?Ministry of Education: More than 50%of the central and western regions

At the press conference of the Ministry of Education.

Cover news reporter Su Yu

On September 27, the Ministry of Education held a press conference to introduce the results of my country's education reform and development since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Guo Peng, director of the Finance Department of the Ministry of Education, introduced that the national fiscal education funding for more than 50%of the central and western regions. The central government's funding for local education transfer payment funds for the central and western regions accounts for more than 80%.

Guo Peng said that the original deep poverty -stricken areas such as "three districts and three states" are given priority support. In particular, new education funds are given priority to support the implementation of education and poverty alleviation. The fiscal education funding for fiscal education in deep poverty -stricken areas such as "three districts and three states" reached 12.2%, exceeding the national average of 2.8 percentage points. "Developing a batch of poverty alleviation."

Always adhere to the reasonable structure is the greatest benefit, and further adjusts and optimizes the structure of education funding. In general, it is "more than three and half": in education at all levels, more than half of them are used for compulsory education; in each expenditure, more than half of them are used for teachers' salaries; more than half of each region, more than half of them in the central and western regions.

Specifically, the use of education funds, especially fiscal education, always adhere to the principle of "guaranteeing basic, supplementing shortcomings, promoting fairness, and quality", adhere to the goal orientation, problem -oriented, and add more fiscal education funds to weak links. Poor areas are inclined and focus on solving the problem of imbalance in education development.

He emphasized that compulsory education is given priority guarantee. The funds for compulsory education in national fiscal education funds reached 2.3 trillion yuan in 2021, an average annual increase of 8.9%; in the past ten years, the proportion has been maintained more than half. Compulsory education has entered the stage of high -quality balanced development from basic equilibrium.

Preschool education is given priority to "short medium". The national fiscal education funding for preschool education reached 270 billion yuan in 2021, an average annual increase of 20.6%, and the fastest growth in education at all levels, accounting for 5.9%, an increase of 3.7 percentage points from 2.2%in 2011.7 percentage points. It has effectively promoted preschool education from the stage of popularization and development to the development of inclusiveness.

Guo Peng said that over the past ten years, the student funding policy and standard system have been continuously improved, and it has achieved the "three full coverage" of all sections from preschool education to graduate education, all public private schools, and all families with financial difficulties.

The total amount of student funding across the country exceeded 2 trillion yuan, and the annual funding amount increased from 132.2 billion yuan in 2012 to 266.8 billion yuan in 2021, which turned it over. Students with particular difficulties such as "establishment of files" at all levels of education at all levels have been given priority funding to ensure that a student is not allowed to lose school due to family economic difficulties.

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