Ministry of Education on 31 billion thin special funds management and distribution

Recently, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Education issued a special fund of 31 billion yuan in 2014, the amount of funds increased by 50.77% over 2013. In order to meet the overall improvement of poverty-stricken areas compulsory education basic conditions for the implementation of the work of teaching equipment. On how the allocation of funds, how to use the management and other issues, the Ministry of Finance responsible person answered the reporter's question.

       Q: How to allocate the special fund for the thin central plan?

       A: The central special funds in accordance with the law of fair and equitable distribution of factors, set a total of four factors, 10 sub-factors. Specifically:

       1. Fundamental factors, including the number of poor people and the proportion of available per capita financial resources, the number of compulsory education students, the basic conditions for funding the number of theoretical gaps in the four sub-factors.

       2. Input factors, including the financial expenditure of the students, the expenditure growth rate, the last year's provincial financial arrangements for improving the conditions of weak schools, special funds and other three sub-factors.

       3. Performance factors, the overall improvement of the basic conditions for running schools to implement the annual program of the completion of the task and the implementation of relevant standards.

       4 management factors, including the implementation of the program and weak school planning quality of planning and other operational work management, financial supervision and management of two sub-factors.

       Q: 2014-2018 central special funds should be used in what areas?

       A: Mainly used to complete the "Ministry of Education National Development and Reform Commission on the comprehensive improvement of poor areas of compulsory education in poor schools basic conditions for the views of the school" (teaching a [2013] No. 10, hereinafter referred to as "opinions") five basic requirements:

       1. Guarantee the basic teaching conditions. To ensure that the classroom is strong, applicable, ventilation, in line with seismic, fire safety requirements, natural lighting, interior lighting and blackboard material in line with regulatory requirements. According to the school size and education and teaching requirements equipped with the necessary teaching equipment, equipment. Each student has qualified desks and chairs. Equipped with books for students' physical and mental development characteristics. According to the geographical conditions of schools and rural sports characteristics, according to local conditions to build sports venues and sports facilities.

       2. Improve school life facilities. Guarantee boarding students per person 1 bed, eliminating the phenomenon of Chase shop. According to the actual needs with the necessary bath facilities and conditions. Canteen or kitchen to clean health, to meet the needs of students dining. Set up water room or installation of drinking water facilities to ensure safe and convenient drinking water for students. Toilet to have enough toilet seat. Schools in the north and cold areas should have winter heating facilities. Set up the necessary safety facilities.

       3. Run the necessary teaching points. The need to retain the teaching points to be equipped with the necessary facilities to meet the basic needs of teaching and living.

       4. Properly solve the problem of county class schools large classes. Through the scientific planning of school layout, make full use of the existing school resources to solve the problem of large classes, and gradually eliminate the phenomenon of large classes. When necessary, through the new, expansion, alteration and other measures, the county town of compulsory education schools to transform.

       5. Promote rural schools. And gradually improve the rural school information infrastructure and educational information application level, the implementation of the rural school broadband network, digital education resources, network learning space construction, for the need to retain the village primary and teaching point allocation of digital educational resources to receive and play equipment.

       Q: 2014 31 billion yuan central special funds mainly used in what areas?

       A: It is mainly used to complete the basic examination indicators stipulated in the Circular of the Office of the Education Steering Committee of the State Council on Carrying out the Special Supervision over the Basic Conditions for Running Schools in Rural Compulsory Education Schools (Teaching Supervision Office of the State Council [2014] No. 6)

       1. Does each student have a desk and chair?

       2. Does the boarding student have one bed per person?

       3. Is safe drinking water available?

       4 canteen whether to meet the dining needs.

       5. Whether the toilet to meet the needs of teachers and students.

       6. Doors and dormitory doors and windows are intact.

       7. Whether the necessary heating conditions.

       8. Are equipped with digital educational resources to receive and play equipment.

       The State Council Office of Education Steering Committee will be the second half of this year, the implementation of supervision over the work of inspection.

       Q: What schools can not be included in the scope of the central special funds support?

       A: First, non-compulsory education stage of public schools, primary schools attached to the preschool and kindergarten, schools, cities and cities above the compulsory education schools and to create "key schools" and the formation of ultra-large-scale schools shall not be included.

       Second, complete secondary school, twelve years of high school system does not include the scope of support.

       Three is not included in the local compulsory education school layout adjustment special plan and intends to long-term retention of rural compulsory education stage public school.

       Q: What projects can not use the central special funds?

       A: The use of the central special funds, to follow the "basic security, bottom line, make up the short board" principle, from the weakest areas, the weakest schools, the weakest link to meet the basic teaching and living conditions of the school, To be timely, do not icing on the cake. The following items shall not be included in the scope of central special fund support:

       First, the office building, auditorium, gymnasium, plastic runway, swimming pool (pool), library, teacher turnover dormitory (otherwise funding channels).

       Second, a one-time investment of less than 50,000 yuan of school maintenance and sporadic equipment purchase project (the required funds can be funded from the rural compulsory education funds related to expenditure).

       The third is the educational administrative departments and institutions directly under the non-teaching institutions and the purchase of equipment and so on.

       Fourth, the rural compulsory education phase of the school dilapidated buildings (the required funds from the primary and secondary school maintenance and reconstruction of long-term mechanism of funding arrangements).

       5 is beyond the scope of other basic educational matters matters.

       Q: How to strengthen financial co-ordination?

       A: Comprehensively improve the basic education conditions for poor schools in poverty-stricken areas The work is an important measure for the state to promote the balanced development of compulsory education. The work covers a wide range of funds demand. The sources of funds are both central and local, and central funds are arranged through different channels. Under such circumstances, co-ordination can only be achieved if co-ordination is enhanced to prevent duplication or lack of support in funding arrangements. Focus on doing the following three aspects:

       One to co-ordinate the central funds. In 2014, in addition to 31 billion yuan thin plan to change the central special funds, the state has also issued a rural compulsory education school public funds 52.9 billion yuan, primary and secondary school maintenance and transformation of long-term mechanism of funds 13.24 billion yuan, migrant workers with children Funds 9.96 billion yuan, rural junior middle school school renovation project funds 5 billion yuan. All localities should strengthen co-ordination of this package of central funds and projects to avoid duplication and omissions.

       Second, we must co-ordinate the implementation of local funds. Local financial departments at all levels should, in light of their own financial resources, increase their financial input to improve the basic conditions for running schools with weak compulsory education in rural areas. Local (especially the provincial level) investment, will be allocated as an important factor in the central special funds.

       Third, we should make full use of central and local funds. Co-ordinate central and local various types of compulsory education funds, and strive to do a good job "addition" to form a financial force. Through the development of central and local funds covering a unified plan, the funds will be implemented on specific projects.

       Q: How to manage central special funds?

       A: First, it is necessary to effectively improve the management system, strengthen fund supervision, efforts to improve the efficiency of the use of funds. To ensure that earmarked, the implementation of special accounts, strict implementation of treasury centralized payment system. Second, the central implementation of the objectives of the provincial management, provincial and below to implement project management, the establishment of the central special fund project library, to ensure that the central use of special funds can be inspected, can be monitored and can be assessed. Third, the central special funds to support school buildings and facilities construction projects, it is necessary to strictly enforce the relevant construction standards and requirements, the implementation of capital construction procedures; equipment and book purchase projects, to establish a standardized bidding mechanism and the corresponding responsibility mechanism, strict implementation Program specification. Fourth, we must follow the regulations in accordance with the law to implement the compulsory education fee concession policy. After the completion of the project for timely acceptance and payment procedures, and for fixed assets accounted for. Fifth, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Education in accordance with the progress of work in the provinces, timely performance evaluation, evaluation results as the basis for the allocation of funds in the provinces. All localities should also strengthen the performance monitoring of the implementation of special funds to support the central project. Six is to establish supervision and inspection system, the central use of special funds management supervision and inspection and supervision of key areas. Strengthen internal supervision, and consciously accept external supervision, to the whole process of project tracking audit.

       Q: How to implement public publicity?

       A: The public is the best preservatives, to ensure that all parts of the thin plan to implement the entire process of transparent operation, all-round, no dead ends to the social public thinning plan all the key links of all information.

       The main contents of the public include: the overall planning of the thinning plan, the annual project budget (plan), the progress of the project, the quality of the school building project, survey, design, construction, supervision, completion and acceptance, books and equipment acquisition And all other information.

       Public media should be the local mainstream media as well as the government and the financial sector portal. In the relevant portal site publicity time shall not be less than one year.

       Q: Central special fund management problems how to deal with?

       A: For the submission of false information, to cheat the central special funds, once verified, the central government will be the corresponding deduction of the second annual funds; the circumstances are serious, the cancellation of the central allocation of special funds in the province eligibility and to be informed throughout the country.