The government announced in 2008 that city children would be exempted from paying tuition and miscellaneous fees for their nine-year compulsory education, which benefit more than 28.2 million children.
Now China’s central government has earmarked $464 million to cover tuition fees primary and junior high schools nationwide.
EnglishNews.cn reports the news went up on the ministry’s web site so that it will be widely disseminated before the end of the Spring Festival and the start of the new school year.