State Council: Public Kindergarten Teachers' Salaries to be included in Financial Security Scope, Ensuring Timely and Sufficient Payment of Teachers' Salaries.

date
06/08/2025
The General Office of the State Council has issued opinions on gradually promoting free preschool education. The opinions point out the need to improve the mechanism for investing in preschool education. Provinces should earnestly implement the Preschool Education Law of the People's Republic of China, adhere to the principles of ensuring basic education and universal access, further improve the mechanism for investing in preschool education, clarify the responsibilities of provinces and below, include the salaries of teachers in public kindergartens in the scope of financial support, and ensure that teachers' salaries are paid in full and on time; formulate and implement standards for per capita financial subsidies for public kindergartens or per capita public funds, as well as standards for per capita financial subsidies for inclusive private kindergartens, and improve the quality level of running kindergartens.