"What?"
"It's about education expenses, which is to say paying teachers' salaries, building schoolhouses, and purchasing teaching equipment, among other costs. This accounts for over fifty percent of the financial expenditure of each township. In order to achieve the 'universal nine-year compulsory education' goal, townships have even resorted to levy all kinds of fees under various pretexts. Still, there is a significant shortfall in education funding."
Han Yu truly didn't know about these issues and found himself at a loss for words momentarily.
Deputy Mayor Shen sighed lightly and continued, "In '93, the per capita funding for urban primary school students was more than 460 yuan, a figure not given to the students themselves, but representing the total investment in education, such as paying teachers' salaries, as mentioned before. However, at that time, the per capita funding for rural primary school students was only a bit over 250 yuan, nearly half less.
