Students in China's Western Region to Receive Free Compulsory Education Next Year
Posted on: Wednesday, 21 December 2005, 09:00 CST
Students in China's western region to receive free compulsory education next year
BEIJING, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- China will continue to increase investment in education in poverty stricken areas in western regions and will provide free nine-year compulsory education in the region next year, said an education official here on Tuesday.
Jiang Peimin, director of the Elementary Education Department of the Ministry of Education, said China will invest more than 100 billion yuan (12.5 billion U.S. dollars) in elementary education in the coming five years.
When attending a meeting of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) on compulsory education in poor areas in western China, Jiang said China will focus on the shortage of teachers and increasing elementary education teaching quality.
Zhou Tienong, vice-chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, said China has achieved great progress in compulsory education over the past decade. However, he added, the education development level is quite uneven in different regions.
The imbalance is enlarging, and it is a still an arduous work to push forward the compulsory education in the poverty stricken areas, Zhou said.
A study of compulsory education in poor regions was launched by the CPPCC in 1993. The study lasted 11 years, and offered many suggestions to the government on promoting compulsory education.
China aims to provide free nine-year compulsory education in rural areas in 2010 and for all students across the country in 2015, according to a national report released by the Ministry of Education recently.
China will provide all students from needy families in acutely poor rural areas with free textbooks and exempt them from paying miscellaneous fees in 2007. Boarding students will receive living allowances, according to the report.
Source: Xinhua News Agency - CEIS
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