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Thursday, February 03, 2005
About 16 million Chinese primary and middle school students in poverty-hit regions will receive free textbooks and be exempted from miscellaneous charges this year, the government has announced.
The government also plans to provide subsidies to those resident students from needy families, officials from the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Education said.
Benefiting from this new policy, the total number of poor students receiving free textbooks across the country will reach 30 million this year, up from the 24 million in 2004.
From 2005 to 2007, the Chinese central government will arrange a special budget of about 22.7 billion yuan (USD 2.7 billion) for the education subsidies to poor students. This comes out to about 200 yuan (USD 24.1) for each primary student and 340 yuan (USD 40.9) for each junior middle school student per year.
According the schedule of the central government, the new policy should be fully implemented in all 592 poor counties by 2007 when education subsidies to each primary student and each middle school student will reach 400 and 540 yuan (USD 48.2 to 65.1).
A source with the Ministry of Finance said that China initiated the free textbook system, funded by the central government in 2001. The system covered 32 per cent of students from impoverished families in central and western China.
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