The total national education expenditure exceeded 5 trillion yuan for the first time last year

　　The total national education expenditure exceeded 5 trillion yuan for the first time last year

　　Beijing, November 3 (China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily reporter Fan Weichen) This reporter learned from the Ministry of Education today that the Ministry of Education, the National Bureau of Statistics, and the Ministry of Finance have recently issued a statistical announcement on the implementation of national education funding 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.

　　It is understood that since the goal of 4% of national fiscal education expenditure in GDP was achieved in 2012, this proportion has remained above 4% for eight consecutive years.

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, the growth rates of 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 in 2019 are: 12.30%, 5.48%, 5.00%, 8.36%, 5.99%, respectively , 5.43%; the increase in 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 are: 14.32%, 5.97%, 5.33%, 9.23%, 8.31% , 5.09%; national kindergarten, ordinary elementary school, ordinary junior high school, ordinary high school, secondary vocational school, ordinary higher school students in general public budget public expenditures increase respectively: 11.50%, 1.76%, 2.68%, 8.17%, 5.84%, 3.81%.

　　Source: China Youth Daily