CCTV.com News: On September 27, the Ministry of Education held the 15th press conference on the "Ten Years of Education" and "1+1" to introduce the results of my country's education reform and development since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China from the data.
Finance Department of the Ministry of Education Guo Peng introduced that the national fiscal education expenditure accounts for 4% of GDP. This proportion is not high. In the ten years, it is 4.13%. Compared with the world average of 4.3% and the average of OECD countries, there is still a certain gap, reaching the world average, which is also an investment level that is in line with my country's current economic and social development stage, development level, and national financial situation.
my country has reached the world average level of fiscal education investment when the proportion of fiscal revenue to GDP is lower than the world average. According to international empirical data, the proportion of national fiscal education expenditure to GDP is directly related to the proportion of fiscal revenue to GDP. Generally speaking, when a country's fiscal revenue accounts for GDP is between 30% and 40%, this proportion may reach more than 4%. my country's fiscal revenue to GDP has long been lower than the world average, and it was less than 30% when it achieved the 4% target for the first time in 2012. Especially during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, the downward pressure on the economy has increased year by year. Coupled with the impact of the new crown epidemic, my country's fiscal revenue in GDP has not increased but decreased. In this context, it is not easy to maintain the bottom line of 4% for ten consecutive years.
my country supports the world's largest education system with the world's average financial investment intensity. my country has 290 million students and 18 million faculty and staff. The combined educational population is equivalent to the total population of the United States, and it is the largest education system in the world. In the past decade, with the realization and consolidation of the 4% target, fiscal education investment has exceeded 4 trillion yuan per year, doubled compared with 2011 and nearly 500 times that of 1978 at the beginning of reform and opening up. Our country has entered the historical stage of "a great country runs strong education".
my country fully utilizes the institutional advantages of government investment as the main body and raising education funds through multiple channels, and promotes the overall level of education modernization development to enter the ranks of middle- and upper-level countries in the world. On September 28, 2021, the State Council Information Office released the white paper " China's comprehensive well-off ", announcing that "my country's overall level of education modernization development has entered the ranks of middle- and upper countries in the world." This is mainly due to the advantages of the education system of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and also due to the advantages of my country's system of implementing government investment as the main body and raising education funds through multiple channels. It is precisely by giving full play to the advantages of the system and system, and under the guidance of 4%, we continuously expand the total amount of education funds and gradually meet the basic needs of the development of education undertakings at all levels and types.
(CCTV)
