China News Service, August 30th, the Ministry of Education held a press conference on the 30th to introduce the reform and development of student financial aid since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
At the meeting, the Department of Finance of the Ministry of Education revealed that 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 a thing of the past.
According to reports, since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Ministry of Education, together with relevant departments, has thoroughly implemented the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee, urged and guided local governments and schools at all levels to build a high-quality student financial aid system, and insisted on promoting precise financial aid and financial aid to educate people to ensure that "Don't let a student drop out of school because of family financial difficulties."
After ten years of hard work, the student financial aid work has made important contributions.
First, it has played a key role in promoting education equity.
Student finance is the foundational work to promote educational equity.
The continuous improvement of my country's student financial aid policy and the continuous increase of investment have made the lofty concept of education fairness take root and become a real social reality.
Students from financially disadvantaged families no longer drop out of school due to tuition fees, and fully enjoy fair educational opportunities.
Students from financially disadvantaged families no longer have to worry about the cost of living, no longer drop out of school due to financial problems, and can study in a down-to-earth and peace of mind.
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%.
Nationally, the students who dropped out of school on file and registered cards have been dynamically cleared, and dropping out of school due to poverty has become a thing of the past.
The second is to provide strong support for poverty alleviation through education.
Student financial aid is an important part of poverty alleviation, and it is also an important position in poverty alleviation.
For the past ten years, student financial aid has insisted on focusing on groups with special difficulties, such as students from families with registered cards, students from families with minimum living allowances, students in extreme poverty, orphans, and students with disabilities. Poverty pace.
The student financial aid policy has eased the financial burden of families who have been lifted out of poverty and low-income families, helped students from financially disadvantaged families to successfully complete their studies and achieve high-quality employment, and laid a good foundation for blocking the intergenerational transmission of poverty.
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.
The third is to lay a solid foundation for improving the level of human resources.
Student financial aid not only guarantees students from financially disadvantaged families to study with peace of mind, but also improves their living standards and enhances their physical fitness.
For example, the nutrition improvement plan implemented by the state covers 123,800 rural compulsory education schools, benefiting 350 million students.
According to the monitoring data of the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention in 2021, the average height of boys and girls in the areas where the nutrition improvement plan is implemented has increased by 4.2cm and 4.1cm respectively compared with 2012, which is higher than the average growth rate of the national rural students; the growth retardation rate of rural students in the central and western regions is 2.5 %, down 5.5 percentage points from 2012.
Through the guidance of the student financial aid policy, the attractiveness of secondary vocational education and difficult majors such as agriculture, forestry, land, mining, oil and other majors and normal majors has been significantly enhanced; hundreds of thousands of assisted normal students have devoted themselves to rural basic education, which has significantly improved rural areas. The quality of the teaching staff; 660,000 college graduates have taken root in grassroots employment, which has significantly optimized the grass-roots cadre team and professional talent structure; 1.43 million assisted college students have been recruited into the army to serve the country, sending a large number of high-quality soldiers for my country to achieve the goal of strengthening the army .
In the Winter Olympics successfully held at the beginning of this year, 91% of the college students who participated in volunteer services were scholarship students.
Fourth, it has won praise at home and abroad for my country's education.
In the past ten years, student financial aid has adhered to the original intention of the people, and delivered the warmth of the party and the government to the needy people in a timely manner, becoming the most direct and warm embodiment of the people's sharing of the achievements of education reform and development.
During the period of the new crown epidemic and the occurrence of natural disasters such as floods, schools in various places opened "green channels" to help students affected by the epidemic to tide over the difficulties, and exempted the national student loan interest that should be repaid by the students in 2022, benefiting more than 4 million College graduates.
The implementation of funded projects such as the Nutrition Improvement Program has earned us an international reputation.
According to the survey results of 169 countries by the World Food Program, my country is one of the few countries in the world that provides nutritious meals in both middle and primary schools, and the scale of school meals is at the forefront.
International organizations such as the World Bank and the World Food Program believe that "the nutrition improvement program for Chinese rural students is a remarkable program in the world".