Home>News Center>China
           
     

    Compulsory education law under amendment
    (Xinhua)
    Updated: 2006-02-26 09:46

    The draft amendment to China's Law on Compulsory Education, aiming to ensure a stable investment system for rural education, was tabled to lawmakers on Saturday for the first review at the beginning of a four-day legislative session.


    Zhao Ting studies at a primary school in Huaqiao Town, Central China's Hunan Province February 21, 2006. All the 60 dropouts in the school has been back to class as China started to offer free education for school kids in the poor areas. [newsphoto]

    The draft amendment to guarantee a nine-year free education for rural poor children will be deliberated for three rounds before being enacted.

    "Education resources are not distributed fairly. Disparity, existing among schools and regions, and between cities and the countryside, is growing every day," said Education Minister Zhou Ji.

    The education system, based on the 20-year-old compulsory education law, must be improved as the disparity of education resources has aroused great concern and "strong" complaints from the general public, Zhou said.

    According to sources close to the legislative session, the draft amendment placed emphasis on specifying the funding responsibility of central and local governments for rural schools, which is expected to lift the educational burden of poverty-stricken rural families and to give rural kids equal opportunities as their peers in cities.

    China enacted the law on compulsory education in 1986, freeing students from tuition fees in six-year primary school and three-year middle school studies.

    But families in some rural areas were burdened with heavy "educational expenses," including the costs of textbooks, winter heat, and transportation, as local governments could not set aside enough budget for education.

    Urban families and governments of rich regions, on the other hand, have never been troubled with this headache.

    In 1998, government budget for compulsory education in Shanghai was 10 times that in the central province of Henan. The figure was 50 times higher in 2005, comparing the budget in Shanghai and that in the countryside of Henan.

    The growing wealth gap has started to undermine the people's equal rights to education, sociologists say.

    When children in such metropolis as Beijing and Shanghai study in schools equipped with planetarium and swimming pools, children in poor countryside, especially in western China, have to spend their school age in make-shift schools, besieged with worry they might be forced to drop out for high costs of schooling.


    Page: 12



    Snowstorm in Shenyang
    Road accident kills 24 in Guizhou
    New measures to promote energy conservation
      Today's Top News     Top China News
     

    China sees threat of "massive" bird flu outbreak

     

       
     

    EU advised to reconsider dumping claim

     

       
     

    China space walk, docking planned

     

       
     

    23 officials punished for child-trafficking

     

       
     

    China-US trade mutually beneficial: Ministry

     

       
     

    China's Internet media calls for self-discipline

     

       
      23 officials punished for child-trafficking
       
      China sees threat of "massive" bird flu outbreak
       
      China's Internet media calls for self-discipline
       
      China sentences orphanage director, nine others to prison for baby-trafficking
       
      US to discuss trade disputes with China
       
      Heavy snow continues in NE China province
       
     
      Go to Another Section  
     
     
      Story Tools  
       
      Related Stories  
       
    China's Property law draft set for further revisions
       
    Legislature mulls change in Criminal Law
       
    Affordable education top priority
       
    One man's Long March to educate
       
    China pledges free 9-year education for students in rural west
       
    Free education in rural areas
    Manufacturers, Exporters, Wholesalers - Global trade starts here.
    Advertisement
             
    中文字幕AV一区中文字幕天堂| 亚洲AV无码乱码国产麻豆穿越| 亚洲VA成无码人在线观看天堂 | 国产啪亚洲国产精品无码| 日本中文字幕在线| 久久久久无码精品国产| 成人无码a级毛片免费| 中文字幕日韩第十页在线观看| 中文国产成人精品久久不卡| 成?∨人片在线观看无码 | heyzo高无码国产精品| 亚洲午夜国产精品无码 | 精品人妻系列无码一区二区三区 | 最近免费中文字幕大全免费版视频| 国产日韩精品无码区免费专区国产| 亚洲AV无码国产在丝袜线观看| 无码人妻丝袜在线视频| 最近中文字幕在线| 最近2018中文字幕在线高清下载| 最近中文字幕在线中文高清版| 国产精品毛片无码| 国产99久久九九精品无码| 无码AV天堂一区二区三区| 亚洲av激情无码专区在线播放| 亚洲日韩精品A∨片无码| 亚洲自偷自偷偷色无码中文 | 一本一道av中文字幕无码| 熟妇人妻中文a∨无码| 国产成人无码av| 精品国产V无码大片在线看| 中文字幕一区二区免费| 无码精品A∨在线观看十八禁| 亚洲av午夜国产精品无码中文字 | 国产成人无码精品久久久性色| 制服中文字幕一区二区| 蜜桃无码一区二区三区| 免费A级毛片无码A∨免费| 亚洲AV无码一区东京热| 人妻丰满熟妇AV无码区乱| (愛妃視頻)国产无码中文字幕| 久久午夜无码鲁丝片午夜精品|