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| Abstract: | In the endeavor to develop general education, the province needs to spend additional funds accumulating to 2,610 million yuan during the Seventh Five-Year Plan period. Of that, 1,598 million yuan will be earmarked for implementing nine-year compulsory education. According to the person responsible for the Jiangsu Provincial Education Department, the increased amount of 1.598 billion yuan will be disbursed as follows: Of the total amount, 405 million yuan will be appropriated to primary schools (of this, 80 million will be spent on repairing dilapidated buildings and 325 million as increment of administrative expenditures as the norm of per-student annual expenditure is increased by 10 yuan over that of 1985); 425 million yuan will be appropriated to junior secondary schools (of this, 270 million yuan will be spent on building additional school buildings and on start-up costs as the enrollment will register a net growth of 325,000 students; 155 million yuan as increment of administrative expenditures due to the rising expenditure norm of 10 yuan per student per year); 263 million yuan will be spent as salary expenditures, 200 million as regular maintenance expenditures, 90 million yuan as funds to purchase laboratory instruments For township junior secondary schools, 25 million as on-the-job training expenditures for teachers of primary and junior secondary schools, and 190 million yuan as equipment expenditures For provincial and municipal Institutes of Education.' The above numbers, however, still do not include the funds that are needed for across-the-board salary increases for teachers and staff during the period of the Seventh Five-Year Plan. |
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