The Study On China's Investment In Compulsory Education For Rural Area

The problems of agricultures, peasants and countryside are prominent problems to Chinese economics and development of contemporary Chinese society. Both developing the rural economy and developing the rural education are the factors of raise the quality of the entire nation. Education is the best way for a nation to invest for the future. In recent years, rural education, especially rural fundamental education has became the discussion and concerning focus of scholars. Our country also paid high attention to rural education through declining policy and providing funds. These measures made great progress in the process of rural reform and rural economical development.With the transforms of government function, development of reform in fiscal system, gradually enhances on revenue, enlarging duties and dynamics of fiscal transfer payment in central committee and provincial level government is possible and extremely essential. Without stable, continual rural financial input system and administering system, the development of rural fundamental education will have no ensure.This paper is composed of four parts:Part one:This paper summarizes the investment system of Chinese rural compulsory education. This paper expounds the general theories on public goods supply, analyses the property of compulsory education as to public goods its main supplier, then systematically introduces the general theories on the investment in compulsory education. It is necessary to acknowledge the related foreign condition to research the investment support of compulsory education.Part two:this paper expatiate the course of investment in compulsory education in China's rural area, and finds that changes which the financial policy influence the policy of china's investment in rural compulsory education. In spite of lots of reforms, there are many shortages about investment in rural compulsory education. From ordinary people to state, the way to investment the compulsory education in rural area gradually conforms to the standard. The burden of farmers also eased, and the proportion of state investment enlarged. Part three:The present conditions and problems of our country's financial investment on rural compulsory education. The problems are: The total funds on rural compulsory education in not sufficient and imbalance. Great parts of funds incline towards higher education and only a litter proportion input the compulsory education; there is imbalance investment about education career and education capital construction in compulsory education; local government undertake the investment task ;there is difference of city and countryside and region about investment in compulsory education.Part four:The mechanism to guaranteeing funding for rural compulsory education. On December 23, 2005, the State Council issued the Circular on Deepening Reform of the Framework for Guaranteeing Rural Compulsory Education Funding. It is stipulated in the Circular to bring rural compulsory education entirely within the public finance guaranteeing scope, and to establish a guaranteeing framework whereby spending on rural compulsory education is shared between the central government and local authorities proportionately and by categories. This milestone decision is a major policy choice made after repeated changes have taken place in the rural compulsory education financing system in the 57-year history of the People's Republic and the 30-year history of reform and opening up to the outside world. This paper got the first-hand material through field investigation, and discovered that government should make better about the mechanism for guaranteeing funding for rural compulsory education.There are two creative ideals in this paper:Firstly, this paper expatiate the course of investment in compulsory education in China's rural area, and finds that changes which the financial policy influence the policy of china's investment in rural compulsory education.Secondly, this paper got the first-hand material through field investigation, and discovered that government should make better about the mechanism for guaranteeing funding for rural compulsory education.