Policy makers in China recognize the importance parents place on high quality education, as well as the benefits of strong education for the national wellbeing. China has taken multipronged approach to improve quality education around the country. Authorities have pushed the expansion of education resources, through the school district system, grouping school, a school multiple sites, including urban and rural areas hand in hand to the suburban branch campus, so that the total amount of quality education resources to be effectively expanded.
A series of institutional measures have been introduced to ensure the improvement of quality and transformation and upgrading. The admissions process has been made more sunny and transparent. In the entrance exams, the allocation of admission indicators and tilting to rural areas. Children are required to go attend a school nearby their family residence to receive education.
Efforts have been made to strengthen the training of teachers. Free and compulsory education in urban and rural areas has been fully realized. Vocational education is rapidly developing. Higher education has become more popular. Rural education has been strengthened.
The government will continue to reform education and practices around the country and at particular schools.
Efforts will be made to provide more quality education resources through narrowing the gap between schools, through transformation of weak schools. So that to effectively alleviate the existing phenomenon of school choice and promote social harmony and social fairness.
Taking practical measures to strengthen the construction of rural teachers in remote poverty-stricken areas such as the old and young border islands, and significantly narrow the gap between urban and rural teachers so that each rural child can receive a fair and quality education.
Rationally allocating educational resources to rural areas, remote and poverty-stricken areas and ethnic areas, and accelerating the narrowing of educational gaps. So that to promote the realization of education fairness.
Adhering to the public welfare nature of education, increasing fiscal investment in education, from the industry to the public interest, and from the development of a particular region or a certain type of education, to the balanced development of education. Trying to ensure most people have equal educational opportunities.
Paying attention to and increasing the allocation of resources for basic education, giving equal access to educational resources for ordinary schools, training qualified high-quality education personnel, creating good working and living conditions for outstanding teachers, and striving to reduce the educational unfairness caused by regional differences.
Protecting the children of migrant workers from receiving compulsory education and effectively solve the problem of compulsory education for children left behind in rural areas.
Improving the education funding system and the student education system and promoting the equitable allocation of quality education resources.
Keeping the balanced development of the city’s internal education as a key indicator to measure the effectiveness of a local government’s job and the level of education modernization. Namely keeping it as an important performance evaluation standard for local governments.
Rationally allocating funding for urban and rural education and increasing support for education funding in rural areas. First, China should not only increase investment in education in absolute terms, but also increase funding in relative terms. The rural education funds are more dependent on fiscal education funding, while the city’s educational funding sources are diverse. Therefore, the state should encourage urban schools to appropriately increase non-financial education funds for schools and transfer some funds to rural schools to solve the problem of inadequate funding for rural education.
Establishing rural teachers’ wage standards and improving the guarantee mechanism for wage growth and welfare benefits. Teachers’ salary standards should be set in rural areas, and their standards should not be lower than 90% to 95% of rural civil servants, to protect the life requirements of rural teachers. In addition, China should establish a sound wage increase mechanism in rural areas to stimulate the enthusiasm of rural teachers and promote education innovation in rural areas. At the same time, China should also improve the social security system for rural teachers such as housing, medical care, and pensions.
Increasing the training of rural teachers to adapt them to the needs of contemporary education development. To increase the training of rural teachers, training is based on government financial support, training ideas, teaching methods, and teaching content are the key training tasks, and training activities are regularly carried out to improve the overall professional level and teaching quality of rural teachers.
Establishing and improving the supervision system for educational equipment resources and rationally allocate equipment resources. In view of the uneven distribution of equipment resources in urban and rural areas, the government should strengthen the supervision of educational equipment resources and establish the necessary supervision system. The establishment of necessary equipment resources for the introduction of standards and regulatory systems is conducive to curbing school competitions and the allocation of more resources in rural areas.