Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 6 -
Title: policy and more frequent, "the school district house" cool yet?
Xinhua News Agency reporters Lu Chang and Guo Yujing
The new school year is approaching. As Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Chengdu and other cities accelerate school district reforms, measures such as multi-school division, quota allocation, and teacher rotation to promote basic education fairness, reporters found that school districts in some areas have shown signs of cooling down. .
Industry insiders believe that multiple measures are still needed to continue to expand the coverage of high-quality educational resources, to diminish the concept of district housing, and to return education and housing to the standard.
Targeted Policies in Multiple Places to Promote Balanced Compulsory Education
In April this year, Xicheng District, Haidian District, and Dongcheng District, which have the richest educational resources in Beijing, respectively issued relevant implementation measures for enrollment in compulsory education, stating that they will resolutely implement multi-school planning for enrollment of children of households who purchase houses after a certain time point. policy.
Among them, Haidian clarified that families newly registered and obtained real estate certificates after January 1, 2019 will no longer correspond to one school when applying for admission, but will become a multi-school division; Xicheng District has clarified that new families will be newly registered after July 31, 2020. Those who purchase a house or move their household registration from other districts of this city to Xicheng District will no longer be registered to enroll in the designated school, and all will be assigned to the school district or neighboring school districts in a multi-school manner.
In Shanghai, policies aimed at further promoting the balanced development of schools have also been introduced.
In January this year, the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission and other departments issued the "Guiding Opinions on Further Strengthening the Construction of the Personnel Management System for Teachers in Shanghai Primary and Secondary Schools", which mentioned the key information to promote the rational flow of principals and teachers and optimize the allocation of resources for primary and secondary school teachers.
In March, Shanghai issued the "New Policy for Chinese Recruitment". By 2022, every junior high school in Shanghai that does not pick up students will, in principle, get the quota allocated by the city's high-quality high schools, so as to ensure maximum equality between schools.
The reporter noticed that in addition to introducing a series of policies to promote a high-quality balance of compulsory education, relevant departments in many cities are also working hard to rectify the illegal publicity and speculation of housing prices in the name of school district housing.
Beijing, Chengdu, Shijiazhuang, Nanjing and other cities have launched actions to control false and illegal advertisements in the real estate sector.
In April of this year, the Beijing Municipal Commission of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and relevant departments conducted special law enforcement inspections in areas where prices are rapidly rising, such as Wanliu and Cuiwei in Haidian District, Desheng and Financial Street in Xicheng District, Jiaodaokou in Dongcheng District, etc. Six stores in Hype School District, including Lianjia and I Love My Home, were temporarily closed for rectification.
Yan Yuejin, research director of the Think Tank Center of the E-House Research Institute, said that the school district housing is the leader in every round of the property market in recent years, and the hype is obvious, which is detrimental to education equity.
At present, the regulation of the property market is becoming more and more microscopic and precise. The signal sent by this round of "directed regulation" on school district housing is very obvious.
Severely cracking down on school district housing speculation and cooling down high-priced school district housing is of positive significance to promoting the fairness and balance of educational resources.
Room prices in some urban school districts have been loosened
According to data from relevant agencies, in recent months, except for the high volume of transactions in the peak period before enrollment in March and April in Xicheng District, the transaction volume of second-hand housing in the remaining months has basically been around 1,000.
Among the 11 school districts, the average price of second-hand houses in Desheng, Yuetan, and Financial Street is the highest. The price of an old 60-square-meter house in the 1980s was around 10 million yuan.
"If the housing is no longer clearly linked to high-quality school districts, the price will be lowered in a short period of time for the top school districts that were extremely high-quality in the past." Guo Yi, chief analyst of Heshuo Institution, said that after the implementation of the "731" policy, Xicheng District, Beijing The overall second-hand housing prices have been lowered. Among them, the second-hand prices in the three school districts of Desheng, Yuetan and Financial Street can be expected to drop.
Reporters inquired on relevant platforms and found that in the past two weeks, owners of Financial Street and Desheng School District have lowered the listing price of second-hand houses by 200,000 yuan to 300,000 yuan.
Under the new round of regulation and control policies, Shenzhen's property market has also cooled down.
Among them, the price of housing in the Shenzhen School District, which was once unusually strong, has loosened. In Nanshan District, the price of a real estate named "Guanhaitai" was reduced by 1.4 million yuan in two days.
The building is located in the commercial and cultural center of Nanshan District, with supporting prestigious schools.
In Shanghai, due to the introduction of a balanced education policy, the wait-and-see attitude of school district housing buyers has increased.
In addition to the requirement to ensure that every elementary and middle school teacher in the city has a prescribed mobility record within 10 years, the Shanghai Education Commission has also established an indicator of the proportion of the number of exchanges and rotations of teachers between the school districts of classmates, the group's annual exchange of teachers, and the number of exchanges of inter-school districts and groups .
Some parents of children said that it is not a good time to sell the school district housing. Hearing the news of the teacher rotation system, they "stopped" the purchase plan and prepared to wait and see for a while before making a decision.
Educational equity is further weakened by the school district effect
Industry insiders pointed out that the existence of school district housing and the behavior of speculating on housing prices in the name of school district housing are not uncommon everywhere. The root cause is the imbalance of educational resources.
Only by continuously bridging the difference in educational resources, narrowing the gap between the "bull schools" and "universal schools" in the same area, and when educational resources become more balanced, the concept of school district housing will gradually weaken.
To solve the problem of high-priced school district housing, it is still necessary to return to the public welfare attributes of compulsory education and the balanced development of compulsory education.
Experts suggest that relevant departments and localities consider continuing to strengthen the exchange and rotation of principals and teachers, and formulate a rigorous work plan to allow the smooth flow of high-quality educational resources.
Increasing investment in education and reforms are also essential.
Relevant experts suggest that relevant departments use reform thinking to promote the quality and efficiency of the compulsory education stage, coordinate and revitalize the high-quality educational resources of ministries, provinces, and departments, so that principals and teachers can flow, so that the people can share more in the reform process. dividend.
A person in charge of the housing construction department believes that housing should return to its original living essence, rather than the deformed attributes of educational resources and other additional attributes.
"The price of school district housing has not always been strong. After buying the old school district, it is not only difficult to guarantee the quality of living, but in many places in the country, the regulation of school district housing is accelerated, and there is a risk of asset devaluation." Guo Yi said.
"The public recommends that they should allocate assets based on real housing needs in the choice of buying houses." Yan Yuejin said.
(Participate in writing: Li Aisheng)