New Problems and Strategies in the Financial Reform in Compulsory Education

Abstract

In 2013, the third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee passed the “Resolutions on Some Key Issues Concerning How to Comprehensively Deepen the Reform Initiative.” This document outlines some new tasks for the upgrading of China’s education reform, most of which were implemented in 2014. This year witnessed a series of achievements in the implementation of these new tasks, such as a balanced development of compulsory education, the establishment of the rotation mechanism between principals and teachers, the revamping of the admission procedures, the separation of administration and performance assessment, the institution of vocational education, the introduction of legal supervision in various sectors of education, as well as the education of the ethnic and minority groups in the border regions.

This section draws on the framework used in compulsory education study proposed in Pan Xiaoming, “Annual Education Finance Summit Seminar Held by the Education Finance Committee of the Chinese Education Development Strategy Association (2014),” Chinese Education Finance, 11–1(2014).