China will continue to spend more  1  education next year and spread the free nine-year compulsory education（免費(fèi)九年義務(wù)教育）to urban children（城市兒童）．Said finance minister（財(cái)政部長）Xie Xuren．

    The government would continue  2  the funding system（撥款制度）to guarantee（保證）free nine-year compulsory education currently（暢通）enjoyed by 150 million rural children，while spreading it to their urban counterparts next year．Xie told an annual conference of the Ministry of Finance in Beijing．

    Starting from the spring term，China would  3  the funding for free textbooks used   4  the national compulsory courses，and the local governments would provide more money   5  free textbooks for local compulsory courses，he said．

    Local governments would also provide scholarships（獎學(xué)金）  6  the living costs of boarding students from poor families．The central government would   7  half of the education funding for areas  8  central and west China，while provincial governments in those areas would cover the rest of the costs．

    Local governments in east China would provide all education fees（資金）  9  some supplementary funding（補(bǔ)充資金）from the central government．

    Xie said the government would issue new standards for per capital expenditure of students in primary and middle schools．a(chǎn)nd put those standards  10  effect within the next two years．

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