China News Service, Beijing, August 30 (Reporter Yuan Xiuyue) "No student will drop out of school due to family financial difficulties", this commitment is taking root in China.
At the press conference on the 30th, the Ministry of Education announced the progress and achievements of student financial aid in the past ten years.
Among them, several sets of data have attracted the attention of the outside world-
In the past ten years, the total amount of national student aid has exceeded 2 trillion yuan.
The annual funding amount has doubled from 132.2 billion yuan in 2012 to 266.8 billion yuan in 2021.
Over the past ten years, the country has sponsored nearly 1.3 billion students.
Annual funding has increased from nearly 120 million in 2012 to 150 million in 2021.
Conference site.
Photo by Yuan Xiuyue
Guo Peng, director of the Finance Department of the Ministry of Education, said that at present, my country's student financial aid has been formed with government funding as the main input, school and social funding as a supplement, free funding as the main method and paid funding as a supplement, and the object is to help the poor. The student financial aid system with Chinese characteristics, which is mainly based on awards and supplemented by awards, covers 28 central government-funded projects. The combination of multiple policies of "awards, aids, loans, exemptions, attendance, supplements, and reductions" provides China with student financial aid to the world. Program.
How does this plan work?
From the perspective of different school stages, according to the "2021 China Student Financial Aid Development Report", in the compulsory education stage, all students' tuition and miscellaneous fees will be exempted, all textbooks will be provided free of charge, living allowances will be given to students from families with financial difficulties, and nutrition for students in rural compulsory education will be implemented. Improvement Program.
In the ordinary high school education stage, students from financially disadvantaged families such as state grants and original files and cards are mainly exempted from tuition and miscellaneous fees, supplemented by local government subsidies and school and social subsidies.
At the stage of general higher education, a multi-hybrid funding system such as national scholarships, national grants, national student loans, national education subsidies for military service, grass-roots employment tuition compensation, national student loan compensation, work-study and “green channels” will be formed. .
Data map: The rock band in "School on the Cloud".
Photo by China News Agency reporter Qu Honglun
It can be noted that this decade has seen higher standards and broader scope of student aid.
For example, in the high school stage, the national bursary standard for ordinary high schools and secondary vocational schools has been raised from an average of 1,500 yuan per student to 2,000 yuan per year.
At the stage of higher education, the national bursary standard for doctoral students has been raised by 3,000 yuan; the national bursary standard for undergraduates has been raised from an average of 3,000 yuan per student to 3,300 yuan per year.
Over the past ten years, the policy of "two exemptions and one subsidy" for urban and rural compulsory education has been fully implemented, and the scope of "one subsidy" has been expanded from boarding students from families with financial difficulties to non-boarding students. Tuition fees, higher vocational national inspirational scholarships and national bursary coverage, increase the number of national scholarships for undergraduates...
At the same time, students from financially disadvantaged families are more inclined.
From the perspective of funding, the proportion of student funding in ethnic minority areas, the original concentrated contiguous destitute areas, and the original "three districts and three prefectures" are 46%, 43%, and 82%, respectively, far higher than the national average of 26%.
Over the past ten years, groups with special difficulties, such as students from registered families, students from families with minimum living allowances, students in extreme poverty, orphans, and disabled students, have been the key targets of student funding.
In 2020, a total of 14.72 million registered students were funded, with a funding amount of 34.4 billion yuan.
After the task of poverty alleviation is completed, in 2021, it will continue to subsidize more than 14 million students from poverty-stricken families and unstable families, more than 7 million students from low-income families, more than 100,000 students from poverty-stricken families, and more than 200,000 students from orphans. , There are more than 1 million disabled students, and the annual funding amount is 57.2 billion yuan.
In addition, during the period of the new crown epidemic and the occurrence of natural disasters such as floods, schools in various regions have opened "green channels" to waive interest on national student loans that should be repaid by loan students in 2022, benefiting more than 4 million college graduates.
"The students who dropped out of school on file and registered cards across the country have been dynamically cleared, and dropping out of school due to poverty has become history." Guo Peng said.
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