Since the year of 2000, a total of 200 million Yuan is taken from the national finance to establish a national scholarship in order to help more university students with economic difficulty to finish the schooling. There will be 45,000 students receiving financial aid and among them, 10,000 specially excellent students can get the first class scholarship of 6,000 Yuan/year/person; 3,500 students can get the second-class scholarship of 4,000 Yuan/year/person. For the gainer of national scholarship, his tuition fee in that year will be completely abated. The aiding object of the national scholarship is full time university and college students with economic difficulty but excellent in study and ethics, including students enrolled in the current year and students on campus. Students in ordinary college and universities can apply for the scholarship to his/her school according the application conditions. The scholarship will be issued after the application is passed by the assessment organized by the relevant departments and organizations. The application and assessment of the national scholarship annually starts in October and finishes by the end of December.
       The national school-aiding loan is issued to university, college students and postgraduates with economic difficulties by the state-owned banks. This loan is used on tuition and life expenses. The country will discount 50 percent interest for this loan. No economic guarantee is required for this loan. With the rapid development of higher education in China, the universities and colleges expand the recruit number year by year, and the student number and the number of poverty-stricken students also increased. The country decided to