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Beijing to offer free nine-year compulsory education
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-12-22 16:13
Primary and middle school students in Shunyi, an eastern district in Beijing,
will get free education and uniforms starting September next year, according to
local education authorities.
Shunyi will offer free textbooks to about 60,000 students and school uniforms
to the about 41,000 who have registered permanent residences in the district.
The district is the first in Beijing to set forth detailed provisions.
China's capital plans to offer free nine-year compulsive education in the coming
five years.
"Besides the exemption of tuition, miscellaneous fees as well as free
textbooks, we are also considering offering every student that has a local
registered permanent residence three sets of school uniforms," said Jia Linxin,
an official with Shunyi education committee.
Students will get uniforms, which include summer and autumn wear, in the
first and fourth grades of primary school and the first grade of middle school.
Every student will save 2,000 yuan (247 U.S. dollars) after nine years of
free education, according to official statistics.
China will invest more than 100 billion yuan (12.5 billion U.S. dollars) in
elementary education in the coming five years, said a senior official of the
Ministry of Education Tuesday.
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