Residents' Payment Ability For General Higher Education In Recent Years

China's gross enrollment rate of higher education reached 15% in 2002, which meant achieving the popular education stage. The state must pay more than 75% training cost for each college student. The lag of higher education income leads residents to objectively think that tuition can't be measured, especially with the exclusion of tuition fees. The current "one size fits all" tuition system does not take into account the differences in the cost-sharing capacity of different income levels in China. Through.analyzing the changes of the capacity of higher education in China since 1997, it is concluded that tuition fees for higher education are not high or even low. The economic burden of the residents' higher education is derived from the university living expenses.Therefore, the paper attempts to find suggestions on how to reduce the ability of residents to pay higher education and make full use of the difference in income levels, with a view to providing support for the healthy development of higher education.The paper mainly uses the quantitative research method to compare the changes of the tuition fees and the living expenses of the higher education between 1997 and 2016.The main research conclusions are as follows: first, the standard of tuition fees in general higher education showed a trend of "rising first and then steady". The tuition fees rose too fast and the national financial expenditure of higher education was insufficient, which increased the economic burden of residents' higher education during the period of 1997-2002. The tuition standard gradually stabilized and the capacity of the residents'higher education to pay gradually increased. But the state education expenditure is still lower than Australia, the United States and Britain and other higher education developed countries during the period of 2002-2016. Second,the economic pressure of the residents'families to support college students is largely due to the expenditure on the living expenses of the undergraduates. There is still a huge gap between the urban and rural residents and the living expenses of the urban residents. Urban and rural residents who were unable to bear the cost of higher education were 10% and 56.2% respectively in 2012. The gap between the different income classes is gradually narrowing down and the ability to pay for middle - income families increases rapidly in 2013-2016.In addition, the paper analyzes the accounting expenditure of ordinary higher education and the proportion of five typical living expenses. The main research conclusions are as follows: the first is that the rapid rise in tuition fees on rural residents spending more than urban residents; As the per capita income growth rate of rural residents is higher than that of urban residents, the gap between urban and rural residents'tuition fees is gradually narrowing in the period where tuition is growing slowly and stabilizing. Second,since 2002, tuition prices rose less than wheat, cotton,commercial housing average retail price increases, indicating that China's ordinary higher education tuition fee growth rate is lower than the daily representative of consumer goods after 2002.Finally, according to the results of the analysis, this paper compares the tuition characteristics of Australia, British and American higher education and draws lessons from its mature student mechanism. It puts forward many suggestions to decrease residents'pay ability,for example,the standard of differentiated tuition fees should be set according to the family income level, and so on.