Audit Commission: Some education departments and schools charge more than $500 million for violating fees

BEIJING, June 24 (Xinhua Zhou Yu Yu) China audit Auditor Jiayi 24th said that, according to the audit investigation, 2006 to 2007 years, 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 co-ordination,　　The appropriation of appropriation of basic education is 1.808 billion yuan, some regions and departments have 2.431 billion yuan in basic education.　　In addition, some schools have borrowed heavily, 17 of the model secondary schools at the end of September 2008, the debt balance amounted to 2.081 billion yuan, an average of 122 million per school debt, borrowed funds mainly for campus construction. Commissioned by the State Council, Jiayi the same day to the National People's Congress to report the 2008 central budget implementation and other financial revenue and expenditure audit. He said that the audit conducted a survey on urban basic education funds, financial support for agriculture and farmers ' subsidy funds for the people's vital interests. 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. Jiayi said that for the above issues, the relevant departments and localities are in accordance with the requirements of the State Council, to study further improve the system, strengthen supervision and management, to ensure that the Party Central Committee, the State Council of the policy of the huimin to implement. The problems found in the audit investigation 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 formulated corrective measures, some of which have been refunded to students, some of them stranded, Appropriation and return of funds appropriated. Finish)