Toward harmonious society through rule of law
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Students of a primary school in Shaoping county, the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region are excited after getting free textbooks for the new semester. The government has exempted people in rural areas from paying their children's tuition fees for the compulsory nine-year education. This has relieved them of a big financial burden. Yu Xiangquan |
Three years ago, Sun Guosheng wanted to pull out his 7-year-old daughter from school because he could not afford to pay the 200 yuan ($28) tuition fees. But the Shaanxi province farmer was in a dilemma after hearing on TV that the Compulsory Education Law was being amended to make pulling out children from or not sending them to school a violation of the law. And then came the good news: tuition fees would be waived for rural students from 2006. It was a huge burden off his shoulders.
