Audit Commission: School fees charged 502 million yuan

People's Daily Beijing, June 24 (reporter Changgong) this morning, in the ninth session of the NPC Standing Committee of the Nineth plenary meeting, the Auditor General Jiayi as the State Council on the 2008 Central budget implementation and other financial revenue and expenditure of the audit work report. To audit the key funds, it mainly carried out the audit investigation of the Urban Basic Education Fund, the Finance supporting agriculture fund and the Farmer Subsidy Fund.　　Jiayi said that in 2006-2007, some education departments and schools illegal collection of school choice, remedial work, sponsorship and other costs of 502 million yuan, some cities, the use of illegal planning, misappropriation of basic education funds 1.808 billion yuan, some regions and departments in basic education funds 2.431 billion yuan. Survey of Urban basic education funds audit. The survey of 19 cities 2007 years of basic education spending 73.476 billion yuan, a 17.5% increase than the previous year, higher than the same period of fiscal recurrent income growth, for the urban basic education, the healthy development of a strong guarantee. However, due to the relatively limited and uneven distribution of educational resources, especially the high quality education resources, some areas or departments have not fully implemented the responsibility for the investment guarantee management, resulting in the implementation of the basic education funds management, enrollment and charging policy. In 2006-2007, some education departments and schools illegally charge 502 million yuan for school choice, remedial work, sponsorship, and some cities are violating the use of basic education, the appropriation of 1.808 billion yuan, some regions and departments of basic education funds 2.431 billion yuan.　　There are also a number of schools to borrow heavily, the 17 demonstration secondary schools at the end of September 2008, the total debt balance amounted to 2.081 billion yuan, the average school debt of 122 million yuan, borrowed funds mainly for campus construction. Audit investigation of financial supporting agriculture Fund. In the 10 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) surveyed, the financial resources of agriculture in 2007 increased by 36%, which strongly promoted the development of rural economy and society. However, the policy of financial investment in agriculture has not been fully implemented in some places, and the benefits of some agriculture projects are poor. Of the 10 provincial, 113 municipal and 980 county-level finance surveyed, the total agricultural investment growth in 2007 did not meet the increase of the financial recurrent income, which accounted for 18% of the increase of the financial investment in agriculture, and the 86 items which should be completed by the end of 2007, 32 failed to meet the design requirements or expected targets, accounting for 37% of the total number of items, resulting in the 824 million yuan investment has not been in place in time to achieve efficiency.　　Some local and competent departments also violate the use of funds 2.693 billion yuan, of which 58.374 million yuan for building and buying cars. The audit investigation of subsidy fund of grain farmers. 18 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) direct subsidy of farmers, agricultural means of production of comprehensive subsidies, crop varieties subsidies and agricultural machinery purchase subsidies, such as 4 of the management and use of funds. In 2006-2008, the central financial arrangement increased the 4 subsidy funds from 19.03 billion to 691 in these areas.700 million yuan, increased by 2.6 times times, mobilized farmers ' enthusiasm for grain production, and promoted the steady growth of grain and the increase of farmers ' income. However, because of the difficulty of determining the actual grain area according to the policy requirement, the distribution of subsidy is generally based on the relative stability of the land area of the tax, which causes some problems in the allocation of funds which are not in accord with the national policy requirements. 2008, there are 27 counties of 3.201 million mu of non-grain or arable land to enjoy the subsidy of 230 million yuan, there are 24 counties 5.699 million acres of grain land due to no grain subsidy of 390 million yuan.　　There are also 10 provinces in this and 28 counties 2008 years did not timely disbursement of subsidy funds 2.89 billion yuan, the longest stay of up to 10 months. Jiayi said that on the problems found in the audit of basic education funds, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Finance jointly issued the opinions on further strengthening the financial management of primary and secondary schools, and put forward the requirements for strengthening the income, expenditure and asset management of primary and secondary schools; the relevant cities have studied and enacted corrective measures, and some of Part of the detention, misappropriation of funds have been allocated and returned. The problems found in the Audit Investigation of Agriculture fund, the Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance and other departments to seriously study and improve the policy system, to urge local rectification, the relevant places to strengthen the financial investment in agriculture and related systems and assessment incentives.