With the realization of the goal of 4% and the continuous optimization of the expenditure structure of education funds, in the past five years, China's preschool education has been popularized, compulsory education has entered a new stage of high-quality and balanced development, high school education has been basically popularized, the popularization level of higher education has been significantly improved, the framework system of modern vocational education has been basically established, and accurate funding has been comprehensively promoted. China's education equity has made great progress.

The use of state financial education funds has always adhered to the principle of "ensuring basics, supplementing shortcomings, promoting fairness and improving quality", insisting on tilting towards rural areas, remote and poverty-stricken areas and ethnic minority areas, insisting on tilting towards compulsory education, vocational education and preschool education, and insisting on tilting towards teachers and students with difficulties in rural areas.

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The Outline of the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan for National Education Development further clarifies the requirements of "one is not less than, two are only increasing, but not decreasing": ensure that the proportion of national fiscal education expenditure to GDP is generally not less than 4%, ensure that fiscal general public budget education expenditure only increases year by year, and ensure that the average general public budget education expenditure according to the number of students in school only increases year by year.

The use of state financial education funds has always adhered to the principle of "ensuring basics, supplementing shortcomings, promoting fairness and improving quality", insisting on tilting towards rural areas, remote and poverty-stricken areas and ethnic minority areas, insisting on tilting towards compulsory education, vocational education and preschool education, and insisting on tilting towards teachers and students with difficulties in rural areas.

First, more than half of it is used for compulsory education, and the level of education security at all levels has been continuously enhanced. Among all kinds of education at all levels, compulsory education has the highest degree of funding guarantee. 95% of the total investment in compulsory education comes from financial funds, and 52% of the national financial education funds are used for compulsory education.

Second, more than half of it is used in the central and western regions, and the gap in education investment between regions and between urban and rural areas is gradually narrowing. More than half of the national financial expenditure on education is used in the central and western regions, and the financial expenditure on education in the central and western regions accounts for the largest proportion of the total investment in education in the central and western regions, with the highest degree of financial security.

Third, more than half of it is used for teachers' salaries and student subsidies, and the investment in "physics" hardware construction has gradually turned to "human" software construction. The living allowance policy for rural teachers has achieved full coverage of concentrated contiguous destitute counties.

Xinhuanet-China's fiscal education funds accounted for more than 4% of GDP for five consecutive years.