National fiscal education funds accounted for over 4% of GDP for eight consecutive years
Our newspaper, Beijing, November 3 (Reporter Jin Xiaoyan) The
Ministry of Education, the National Bureau of Statistics, and the Ministry of Finance recently issued a statistical announcement on the implementation of national education funds in 2019.
The announcement shows that the total national education expenditure in 2019 was 5.017.812 billion yuan, exceeding 5 trillion yuan for the first time, an increase of 8.74% from the previous year's 4614.300 billion yuan.
The national financial education expenditure was 4,04.655 billion yuan, exceeding 4 trillion yuan for the first time, an increase of 8.25% from the 3,695.577 billion yuan in the previous year, accounting for 4.04% of GDP.
Since the 4% target was achieved in 2012, this proportion has remained above 4% for eight consecutive years, and the 4% results have been further consolidated.
The national general public budget for education was 344.8857 billion yuan, an increase of 8.30% over the previous year's 319.273 billion yuan, accounting for 14.51% of 23,885,837 billion yuan in general public budget expenditure, an increase of 0.03 percentage points from 14.48% last year.
According to the statistical announcement, in 2019, the general public budget education expenditures for kindergarten, ordinary elementary school, ordinary junior high school, ordinary high school, secondary vocational school, and ordinary colleges and universities nationwide increased by 12.30%, 5.48%, 5.00%, 8.36%, 5.99%, 5.43%; the general public budget education expenditures per student in kindergartens, ordinary primary schools, ordinary junior high schools, ordinary high schools, secondary vocational schools, and ordinary colleges and universities nationwide increased by 14.32%, 5.97%, 5.33%, 9.23%, 8.31%, 5.09, respectively %; National kindergarten, ordinary elementary school, ordinary junior high school, ordinary high school, secondary vocational school, and ordinary colleges and universities have respectively 11.50%, 1.76%, 2.68%, 8.17%, 5.84%, 3.81% in general public budget public expenditures.