China's central government arranges 55.3 billion yuan in student aid subsidies
China News Service, Beijing, August 3 (Reporter Zhao Jianhua) The Ministry of Finance of China announced on the 3rd that it has recently arranged 55.3 billion yuan (RMB, the same below) for student financial assistance in 2020, an increase of 4.84 billion yuan or 9.6% over the previous year. Support local governments to implement policies such as general high school education, secondary vocational education, higher education-related scholarships, and exemption of school (miscellaneous) fees and subsidies, which are expected to benefit 6.918 million general high school students, 14.94 million secondary vocational education students, and 8.486 million higher education students Person times.
According to the Ministry of Finance, this year, we will continue to improve and implement the student financial aid policy, and further favor poor areas and weak links. Starting from the fall semester of 2020, non-agricultural majors, non-family financially difficult students and students majoring in opera performances in ethnic regions will be included in the secondary vocational education free tuition coverage. At this point, all rural secondary vocational school students (including counties and towns) ) Students, urban agriculture-related students, students with financial difficulties from families, students in schools in ethnic areas, and opera performance students (except for other art-related performance students) will all enjoy the secondary vocational education free tuition policy.
At the same time, all localities are required to play the role of provincial coordinating, increase support for deeply impoverished areas such as the "three districts and three states", especially those areas listed for war surveillance, and arrange the required funds in time and in full; improve the accuracy of funding and do a good job in family economy Difficult students are recognized as work. All regions are required to take into account factors such as the level of economic development in different regions and the distribution of students with financial difficulties from families, and scientifically allocate funding places and funds among districts, counties, and colleges within their jurisdiction. It cannot be simply “one size fits all”.
During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, the Ministry of Finance continued to improve the student financial assistance system, accumulating 224.3 billion yuan in student financial assistance, an average annual increase of 8.7%, benefiting approximately 33.59 million ordinary high school students and 68.38 million secondary vocational education students. 34.37 million students. In the next step, the Ministry of Finance will continue to adjust and improve the student financial assistance system, implement various funding policies, do everything possible to help, support the basic livelihood of the people, and promote education equity. (Finish)