In
the year of 2001, the total recruit number
in the western district has reached more than
600000, with an increase of 36 percent compared
with that of 2000, which is higher than the
average increase rate. In order to support
the cultivation of advanced talents for the
western areas, the postgraduate recruit scale
in western areas increased by 39 percent compared
with that of 2000 with 5 per cent higher than
national average level. The academy support
plan is also carried out in order to cultivate
excellent teachers and academic leaders for
universities in the western areas. In the
year of 2001, 1000 university teachers were
cultivated.
As
for the establishment and development of
higher education schools, the policy inclines
to give the western areas more advantages.
In the year of 2001, there established 11
universities or colleges in the western
areas, and 28 higher professional and technical
colleges were approved to be put on records,
which expanded the higher education resources
of the western areas and increased the recruit
student number. In the year of 2001, the
special class teacher plan was carried out.
A lecturing team of special class teachers
went to give lectures in Tibet, Guangxi,
Guizhou, and Gansu. The training of 30000
excellent teachers has been accomplished.
The
schools in the eastern areas support their
counterparts in the western poor areas, and
the schools in the cities support schools
in poverty in the same district. These two
projects are called education counterpart
supporting projects for short, which had made
great breakthrough in 2001. At the same time
of increasing policy support, the central
and local governments have also increased
the capital investment in western education
in these years.
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This
is an 11.6 billion yuan program executed jointly by the
former Education Commission and the Ministry of Finance
during 1995-2000 to help make compulsory education universal
in poverty-stricken areas. Of the program money, financial
appropriations from the central government constitute
3.9 billion yuan, and the ratio of financial appropriations
from local governments to the central government outlay
must not be lower than 2:1. This is the biggest poverty-relief
program in the educational field in the history of China.
Program money
was invested mainly in state-level poverty-stricken counties;
in provincial-level poverty-stricken counties faced with
real financial difficulties, program money was first given
to revolutionary base areas and areas inhabited by ethnic
minority people. Money was spent mainly for: eliminating
dangerous houses in rural primary and secondary schools,
procuring teaching instruments, books, desks and benches
for schools according to state-set standards, and training
teachers and principals. 
To achieve maximum
efficiency, during 1995-1997, executors of the Compulsory
Education for Poverty-stricken Areas Program invested
program money mainly in the 383 poverty-stricken counties
in 11 provinces and autonomous regions and one centrally-administered
municipality in the central and western parts of the country.
During the 1998-2000 period, program money went mainly
to 469 poverty-stricken |
