Recently, Shandong provincial finance issued a transfer payment fund of 900 million yuan to play a leading role in supporting the high-quality and balanced development of basic education in the province.
The fund will be used in three main areas. First, the fund will be used to support the construction, renovation and expansion of primary and high schools in various areas to further improve the conditions for running schools. Second, the fund will be used to support pilot projects to build towns strong in education, build classrooms with special education resources, develop ethic minority primary and high schools, and build charity schools, so as to guide local governments to improve the quality of education and teaching. Third, the fund will used to support efforts at all levels to increase the construction of revolving dormitories for rural teachers, and strive to achieve the goal of completing 11,000 dormitories within the year.