Chinanews.com, September 6th. According to the website of the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Education, and the State Administration for Market Regulation issued the "Notice on Strengthening the Supervision of the Fees for Off-campus Training in the Compulsory Education Stage". The notice pointed out that the compulsory education stage Online and offline subject-based off-campus training fees are charged by non-profit institutions, and government-guided price management is implemented in accordance with the law.

The fluctuation range of the benchmark fee standard established by various regions shall not exceed 10%, and the fluctuation may not be limited.

The specific notice is as follows:

  1. Implement government-guided price management.

During the compulsory education stage, the fees for online and offline subject-based off-campus training are non-profit institutions, and the government-guided price management is implemented in accordance with the law. The government sets benchmark fee standards and floating ranges, and includes them in the local pricing catalog according to procedures.

In accordance with the principle of territorial management, the benchmark fee standard and floating range of off-campus training for offline disciplines shall be formulated by the provincial development and reform department in conjunction with the education department, or by the people's government at the prefecture level and above with the authorization of the provincial people’s government; online disciplines The benchmark fee standard and floating range for off-campus training shall be formulated by the provincial development and reform department in conjunction with the education department where the training institution's school permit is approved.

The floating range set by each locality shall not exceed 10%, and the floating range is unlimited.

Training institutions determine specific charging standards within the benchmark charging standards and floating ranges set by the government.

  2. To scientifically formulate charging standards.

All localities must adhere to the public welfare attributes of off-campus training in disciplines, fully consider the characteristics of major people's livelihoods, effectively reduce the burden of student family education expenditures as the goal, based on average training costs, and take into account the local economic development level, student family affordability and other factors. , Reasonably formulate benchmark fee standards and floating ranges.

It is necessary to distinguish between online and offline as well as different class types, and to formulate benchmark fees for standard course lengths.

The class type can be divided into three types: less than 10 people, 10 to 35 people, and more than 35 people.

Localities can determine specific classification standards for their respective regions based on actual conditions.

The standard course duration is 30 minutes online and 45 minutes offline. If the actual duration is different, it will be converted according to the proportion.

It is necessary to establish a charging policy evaluation and dynamic adjustment mechanism, and adjust and improve the charging standards in a timely manner.

  In accordance with relevant regulations, all localities should strengthen the investigation of the training institutions' subject-based off-campus training costs, and strictly verify and reduce unreasonable costs.

The training cost includes the salary of the staff of the training institution, the rent of the training venue, the publicity expenses, the research and development expenses, the depreciation of fixed assets and other expenses.

Among them, the average salary level of personnel in training institutions should be normal and reasonable, and should not be significantly higher than the average salary of employees in urban non-private units in the local education industry announced by the statistics department; training venue rentals and fixed asset depreciation fees, etc., should be used in accordance with the actual use of subject-based off-campus training Time length and other factors shall be assessed and calculated according to reasonable methods and fair levels; publicity expenses shall not exceed 3% of the sales income of off-campus training for disciplines.

It is necessary to strengthen the review of related party transactions and conduct extended investigations on related party transactions that are obviously not in compliance with the fairness level.

All localities should promote training institutions to speed up the establishment and improvement of financial and accounting accounting systems, complete and accurately record the costs and revenues of off-campus training for online and offline disciplines, as well as the number of trainees, the amount of class hours, and the number of teachers.

  3. Strengthen the disclosure of charging information.

All localities must urge training institutions to disclose the content of off-campus training, training duration, charging standards, teacher qualifications and other information to the public in advance through websites, fee-charging venues, online applications, and open media in accordance with regulations; Standards, teacher qualifications and other information, together with the previous year's income, costs, profits, related transactions, policy implementation, etc., are submitted to the local education, development and reform and market supervision departments before the end of June each year.

It is necessary to give full play to the role of the management service platform for out-of-school training institutions across the country, and encourage all provincial or municipal education departments to adopt a centralized publicity method to provide information on the types, scales, and charging standards of the local off-campus training institutions for major disciplines. The public is open.

Educational departments in all regions should speed up the formulation of standards for the quality, training schedule, and class setting of off-campus training in disciplines, and make them public to the public.

  Fourth, strengthen the supervision of charging behavior.

All localities should promote the full use of the "Out-of-school Training Service Contract for Primary and Secondary School Students (Model Text)" formulated by the Ministry of Education and the State Administration of Market Supervision, strictly fulfill contract obligations, regulate their own charging behavior, and must not increase or increase in disguise for any reason or in any way. The training fee standards set by the government shall not charge other fees in addition to the training fees.

The local market supervision, education, development and reform departments should strengthen supervision of the implementation of subject-related off-campus training fees in accordance with their duties.

Channels for complaints and reports should be unblocked, and all parties in the society should be encouraged to participate in supervision.

It is necessary to strictly investigate and punish charges that exceed the government guidance price in accordance with the law, and adopt methods such as decomposing charge items, repeating charges, expanding the range of charges, and inflating training time to increase the charging standards in disguise, false propaganda, price fraud, and non-standard pricing.

The typical cases with serious circumstances and bad nature should be publicly exposed.

  5. Effectively organize and implement.

Under the unified leadership of local party committees and governments, local development and reform, education, market supervision and other departments should establish and improve work coordination mechanisms, formulate detailed work plans, clarify timetables and roadmaps, and accelerate the progress of compulsory education in accordance with the requirements of the "Opinions". Subject-based off-campus training fees are subject to government-guided price management.

All localities shall introduce the government-guided price management policy for subject-related off-campus training fees in the compulsory education stage before the end of 2021, clarify the benchmark fee standard and fluctuation range, as well as the specific implementation time, and do a good job of policy linkage, strengthen expected guidance and publicity and interpretation, and respond to the society in a timely manner Concern to ensure the smooth implementation of the policy.

The management of fees for off-campus training of subjects for ordinary high school students shall be implemented by reference.

  Development and reform, education, and market supervision departments at all levels should further unify their thinking and fully understand the importance of strengthening the supervision of off-campus training fees for disciplines to reduce the burden on students’ off-campus training, purify the education ecology, and maintain educational equity, effectively improve political positions, and enhance their sense of responsibility And a sense of mission, take it as the current key task, put it in a prominent position, do a good job and achieve results, resolutely curb the excessive profit-seeking behavior of training institutions, and implement the goal of reducing fees and burdens.