Guizhou Province Compulsory Education Regulations (2019 revision)

Chapter 1 General Provisions Article 1 In order to protect the equal rights of school-age children and teenagers to receive compulsory education and consolidate and improve the quality of compulsory education, in accordance with the "Compulsory Education Law of the People's Republic of China" and relevant laws and regulations These regulations are formulated based on the actual conditions of the province. Article 2 These regulations shall apply to the implementation of compulsory education and related activities within the administrative region of this province. Article 3: This province implements a nine-year compulsory education system, and all school-age children and teenagers must receive compulsory education.

Students receiving compulsory education will not be charged tuition, miscellaneous fees, or borrowing fees, and textbook fees and exercise book fees will be gradually exempted. Article 4: Compulsory education implements a system in which the provincial people's government coordinates the overall planning and implementation, and the county-level people's government takes the lead in management.

The Provincial People's Government formulates the province's compulsory education implementation plan, decides on major issues in compulsory education, coordinates the implementation of the province's compulsory education funds, guarantees the compulsory education funds of the people's government at the same level, and organizes the implementation of the province's compulsory education Work and conduct supervision and inspections.

The municipal and prefecture people's governments formulate implementation plans for compulsory education in their respective administrative regions, ensure compulsory education funds for the people's governments at the same level, and supervise and inspect the implementation of compulsory education by their subordinate departments and lower-level people's governments.

County-level people's governments are responsible for the specific management of compulsory education, formulating development plans for compulsory education in their respective administrative regions, planning and building schools, strengthening the construction of teachers, ensuring compulsory education funds for the people's governments at the same level, and ensuring School functioning and school safety.

Township people's governments and sub-district offices (communities) shall implement compulsory education in accordance with their prescribed responsibilities. Article 5: The education administrative departments of the people's governments at or above the county level are specifically responsible for the implementation of compulsory education; other relevant departments are responsible for relevant work in the implementation of compulsory education within their respective scope of duties. Article 6 People's governments at or above the county level shall rationally allocate educational resources, promote the balanced development of compulsory education, ensure the implementation of compulsory education in rural areas, poverty-stricken areas, and ethnic minority areas, and protect the children of those with financial difficulties, those with disabilities, those left behind in rural areas, and those who work in cities. All school-age children and teenagers in the country receive compulsory education.

Encourage more economically developed areas to support poor areas and ethnic minority areas in implementing compulsory education. Article 7 People's governments at or above the county level and their education administrative departments shall implement quality education to promote the all-round development of students.

Schools should carry out education and teaching activities in accordance with the requirements of quality education.

Social organizations, families and individuals should create a good environment for the implementation of quality education. Article 8 Compulsory education implements a supervision system.

The education supervision agencies of the people's governments at or above the county level are responsible for organizing and implementing the supervision of compulsory education within their respective administrative regions under the leadership of the people's governments at the same level, and accept the guidance of the higher-level education supervision agencies.

People's governments at or above the county level should establish a compulsory education supervision and evaluation system, a supervision results announcement system, and a reward and punishment system. Article 9: Implement the target responsibility system and accountability system for compulsory education, and use the balanced development of compulsory education, admission guarantee, teacher team building, quality education, funding investment, school safety, etc. as assessment criteria for people's governments at or above the county level and their relevant departments Important content of the main person in charge. Chapter 2 Balanced Development Article 10 People's governments at or above the county level shall incorporate the balanced development of compulsory education into economic and social development plans, establish and improve guarantee mechanisms, rationally allocate educational resources, and reduce or eliminate obligations between urban and rural areas, between regions, and between schools. We will gradually realize the standardization of compulsory education facilities and equipment, the equalization of teacher allocation, and the integration of education quality.

The educational administrative departments of the people's governments at or above the county level should promote the sharing of educational facilities, equipment, teachers and other resources between urban and rural areas, between regions, and between schools. Article 11 The Provincial People's Government shall improve the fiscal transfer payment system for compulsory education funds and increase transfer payments to rural areas, poverty-stricken areas, and ethnic minority areas. People's governments at the county level shall use all compulsory education transfer payment funds for compulsory education in accordance with regulations.

Article 12 People's governments at or above the county level shall speed up the implementation of standardized construction of compulsory education schools, strengthen the transformation of weak schools, the construction of rural boarding schools and the expansion of urban schools, and ensure that urban and rural compulsory education schools meet the standards for running schools.

Teaching points should be set up reasonably in remote mountainous areas where residents are scattered. Article 13 People's governments at or above the county level shall, as needed, plan and set up boarding schools to ensure that school-age children and teenagers in mountainous areas, remote areas and ethnic areas where the population is relatively scattered receive compulsory education, and provide living subsidies for boarding students from families with financial difficulties.

People's governments at or above the county level should complete the construction of boarding school dormitories, canteens, clinics, bathrooms, toilets and other infrastructure.

People's governments at or above the county level should reasonably determine the number of faculty and staff in boarding schools and equip them with necessary dormitory management personnel, canteen staff, security personnel, medical personnel, etc.

People's governments at or above the county level should provide lunch facilities for students in non-boarding schools who live far away and provide students with sanitary drinking water. Article 14 The educational administrative departments of the people's governments at or above the county level shall establish and improve the mobility system of teachers and principals, improve incentive policies, and promote the reasonable mobility, cooperation and exchange of teachers and principals between urban and rural areas, between regions, and between schools.

The county-level people’s government and its relevant departments of education, institutional establishment, human resources and social security should allocate teacher resources in a balanced manner, In terms of training of subject leaders and exchanges between teachers and principals, priority should be given to rural schools, minority schools and disadvantaged schools, and the distribution structure of teachers' disciplines, academic qualifications, positions and ages in urban and rural schools should be improved to promote a relative balance of teachers among schools.

Implement the system of urban teachers going to rural schools or weak schools to support teaching and teach in rotation. Teachers from urban schools who have no teaching experience in rural schools or weak schools and no record of supporting teaching are not allowed to be promoted to the next higher level teacher position.