The Ministry of Education: The national high school gross enrollment rate has reached more than 90%, and the popularity goals are achieved as scheduled

Today, the reporter learned from the "Ten Years of Education" and "1+1" series held by the Ministry of Education that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, ordinary high school education has made important progress and significant results. In 2021 14,600, the school students reached 260.503 million, an increase of 7.97%and 5.59%over 2012. In 2020, the national and provincial (autonomous regions, municipalities) high school education rates have reached more than 90%, achieving the national determined goal of the country as scheduled.

Lu Yugang, director of the Department of Basic Education of the Ministry of Education, introduced the 10 -year reform and development results of ordinary high school education. Photo by Zhang Jinsong, a reporter from China Education News

Lu Yugang, director of the Department of Basic Education of the Ministry of Education, introduced that in 2021, the gross enrollment rate of education in high school education was further increased to 91.4%, an increase of 6.4 percentage points from 2012. The popularity of the central and western regions has increased the largest, and the 10 -year -old gross enrollment rate with a relatively low level of popularization with the Ministry of Education has signed a high level of popularization of the high level of popularity in the middle and western provinces. Regional education development gap.

Lu Yugang said that in the past ten years, the investment in the financial education of ordinary high schools across the country has increased from 231.7 billion yuan in 2012 to 466.6 billion yuan in 2021, an increase of more than doubled. In 2019, the state has formulated a funding standard of not less than 1,000 yuan in public expenses of ordinary high school students for the first time, and has now been implemented. The annual subsidized poor students account for about 20%of the total number of ordinary high school students in the country. In 2015, the average student average student was increased from 1,500 yuan per year to 2,000 yuan. From the beginning of the year, the state has implemented a policy of exempting miscellaneous fees for students with family economic difficulties.

Lu Yugang said that over the past ten years, the central government has invested 71186 billion yuan. The country has accumulated a total of 4570 new and expanded ordinary high schools. In 2021, the construction area of ​​ordinary high school buildings nationwide reached 640 million square meters, an increase of 220 million square meters from 2012, an increase of 52.35 %. The proportion of large classes decreased significantly. The proportion of 56 people in ordinary high schools across the country decreased from 47.76%in 2012 to 4.81%in 2021, a decrease of 43 percentage points. In 2021, the value of ordinary high school students nationwide reached 4968 yuan, an increase of 2841 yuan from 2012, an increase of 1.34 times. Among them, the level of informationization was further improved. In 2021 The total number of classrooms reaches 76%.

Lu Yugang revealed that over the past ten years, the total number of full -time teachers in ordinary high schools has increased significantly, from 1.595 million to 2.283 million, an increase of 27.17%. The student ratio has been optimized from 15.47: 1 in 2012 to 12.84: 1, which effectively relieves the college entrance examination. Comprehensive reforms and implementation of teachers' tensions faced by courses.

"The enrollment order is constantly standardized, promoting the local governments to conscientiously implement the enrollment policy of territorial enrollment and citizen -run schools, and to reasonably distribute more than 50%of the high -quality ordinary high school schools to rationally distribute to junior high schools in the region. The platform has promoted the balanced development of compulsory education. "Lu Yugang said.

Reporter: Ye Zhonghua

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