(Adopted at the 34th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 11th NPC of Nanning on January 5, 2005, and approved at the 15th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 10th NPC of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on July 29, 2005.)
Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1 Based on the Law of the People¡¯s Republic of China on Ethnic Regional Autonomy and Education Law of the People¡¯s Republic of China and in accordance with the local conditions, these Regulations are formulated for the purpose of developing the minority educational undertakings in Nanning, protecting the legal rights and interests of ethnic minority groups in education, and improving the quality of the ethnic minority population.
Article 2 Minority education herein refers to the primary and secondary education for the ethnic minority groups in the administrative division of Nanning and for the ethnic minority compact communities, scattered communities, and mingled communities (hereafter named minority areas).
Article 3 The municipal, county (district) people¡¯s governments shall incorporate minority education and its fundamental construction into their plans for national economic and social development.
The municipal, county (district) people¡¯s governments shall carry out preferential education policies that give priority to the poverty-stricken minority areas and remote minority areas.
Article 4 The municipal, county (district) people¡¯s governments shall be in charge of the minority educational work in their administrative regions and undertake planning, coordination, supervision and evaluation of the minority education undertakings.
Article 5 The administrative departments of education under the municipal people¡¯s government shall be in charge of the minority educational work in the whole city and those under the county (district) people¡¯s governments shall be in charge of the minority educational work in the areas under their jurisdiction.
The ethnic minority departments and other related departments under the municipal, county (district) people¡¯s governments shall be responsible for the minority educational work within the scope of their functions and duties defined by respective people¡¯s government.
Article 6 The municipal, county (district) people¡¯s governments and their administrative and functional departments shall organize and promote scientific research on minority education, popularize the research achievements and solve difficulties and problems in minority educational work.
Article 7 Putonghua (common speech based on Beijing pronunciation) and the standardized characters designed for use throughout the country shall be widely used in instruction in schools in minority areas, while the Zhuang and Chinese languages can be used in schools in Zhuang concentrated communities according to actual conditions.
Schools of all types and at all levels shall strengthen the education on national unity and attach importance to the instruction of excellent traditional cultures of ethnic groups.
Article 8 The municipal , county (district) people¡¯s governments shall organize organs at all levels, social groups, government institutions and governments, universities and colleges, primary and high schools in urban areas to support the educational work in primary and high schools in remote and poverty-stricken minority areas.
Article 9 The people¡¯s governments at all levels shall encourage and advise the ethnic people and those who live in minority areas to send their children to economically developed regions or to cities for their schooling if they can afford it.
Chapter II Compulsory Education
Article 10 The people¡¯s governments at all levels shall take various measures to make school-age ethnic children access to the compulsory education and the dropout rate in primary and junior high schools in minority areas shall be controlled under the quota set by the State and Guangxi.
Article 11 The people¡¯s governments at all levels shall establish boarding schools in accordance with relevant regulations of the State. All boarding schools shall have safe and independent dormitories and other living facilities meeting requirements.
Article 12 School buildings, fields, teaching facilities, equipment and books and materials in schools of minority areas shall meet the standard set by of the State.
Article 13 The people¡¯s governments at all levels shall establish and perfect the assisting system of compulsory education in minority areas. Students from poor families shall be exempted from paying miscellaneous fees and provided with free textbooks and those staying on campus shall receive living allowances.
Chapter III Vocational Education
Article 14 The municipal, county (district) people¡¯s governments shall make overall planning of vocational education in minority areas, perfect and develop the coordinating and leading organs of vocational education, stipulate measures and cooperate with related departments to promote the development of vocational education.
Article 15 All counties under the municipal jurisdiction shall establish at least one autonomous region-level demonstrative secondary vocational school, based on their economic and cultural characteristics.
Article 16 Vocational education in minority areas shall focus on the stage of senior high schools but at the same time develop various forms of junior high schools, from either of which learners can master one or two techniques.
Article 17 Exchanges and cooperation shall be encouraged and supported in education, teaching, scientific research between secondary vocational schools in the city and counties.
Secondary vocational schools of nationalities can enroll students from different counties (districts). No unit or individual can do anything to prevent this rule going through.
Municipal secondary vocational schools shall make full use of their advantages and support and assist the minority vocational education in the counties under the municipal jurisdiction.
Municipal secondary vocational schools shall extend enrollments from remote and poverty-stricken minority areas, reduce or exempt tuitions for ethnic minority students from poor families and help them with their employment.
Secondary vocational schools in remote and poverty-stricken minority areas shall be encouraged and supported to carry out programs of various forms with central cities¡¯ vocational schools.
Article 18 The municipal and county people¡¯s governments shall adopt relevant preferential policies of the State for minority secondary vocational schools to launch work-study programs, set up school factories and internship bases and other industries providing services to faculties and students.
Article 19 Secondary vocational schools shall be encouraged and supported to run joint schools with enterprises in developed areas or to train professional and technical personnel for them.
Chapter IV Minority Schools and Minority Classes
Article 20 The municipal and county people¡¯s governments shall establish one or two minority senior high schools.
The municipal people¡¯s government can appoint some municipal senior high schools and secondary vocational schools to set up minority classes.
All county (district) under the municipal jurisdiction can start minority primary schools and junior high schools according to their actual situations.
Minority villages shall have minority primary schools and junior high schools.
All forms of minority schools and classes mainly carry out boarding system and subsidiary system.
Article 21 Municipal and county minority senior high schools and minority secondary vocational schools and minority classes mainly enroll excellent and new junior high graduates from poor minority families in minority areas.
Article 22 Municipal minority senior high schools and classes enroll students from all counties (districts) under the municipal jurisdiction and county minority senior high schools enroll students from their own counties.
Article 23 The municipal, county (district) people¡¯s governments shall provide certain allowances to the ethnic students in all minority schools and classes, reduce or exempt tuitions, miscellaneous fees, textbook costs and boarding fees for students from poor families and grant living allowances. The standard of all allowances shall be set up by the municipal, county people¡¯s governments.
Article 24 The municipal, county (district) people¡¯s governments shall make efforts to improve the conditions for schools in remote and poverty-stricken areas.
Municipal minority senior high schools shall meet the standard of demonstrative high schools in Guangxi; municipal minority secondary vocational schools shall meet the standard of key secondary vocational schools in Guangxi; county minority senior high schools shall meet the standard of Level-one schools in Guangxi; county minority secondary vocational schools shall meet the standard of demonstrative secondary vocational schools in Guangxi
Chapter V Teachers
Article 25 The municipal, county (district) people¡¯s governments shall make efforts to provide enough posts of faculties in schools of remote and poverty-stricken minority areas.
All forms of minority schools and classes can have a slightly higher quota of teachers than other normal schools.
Article 26 The municipal, county (district) people¡¯s governments shall strengthen the construction of bases for training municipal and county teachers.
The administrative departments of education under the municipal, county (district) people¡¯s governments shall arrange at least a one-month training or off-job refresher training for every principal and teacher in schools of minority areas.
The municipal, county (district) people¡¯s governments shall guarantee the investment in training the principals and teachers.
Article 27 The quota of appointments for teachers with professional titles in schools of remote and poverty-stricken areas shall be slightly higher than that of other normal schools, and the quota of appointments for teachers with intermediate and high levels of professional titles in minority schools and classes shall be 20 percent higher than normal appointments.
Article 28 Floating wages shall be awarded to those who teach in primary and high schools in remote and poverty-stricken minority areas and in minority schools and classes and who are deemed qualifies during the appraisal. The municipal people¡¯s government shall make the concrete awarding measures.
Article 29 The municipal, county (district) people¡¯s governments shall give appropriate living allowances to teachers in primary and high schools of remote and poverty-stricken minority areas and in all forms of minority schools and classes. In schools that the Zhuang and Chinese languages are used, teachers who instruct in both languages shall be given subsidies.
The municipal, county (district) people¡¯s governments shall take measures to improve the teachers¡¯ housing, medical care and other benefits in remote and poverty-stricken minority areas.
Article 30 The municipal, county (district) people¡¯s governments shall draw up preferential policies, encouraging and supporting qualified teachers and recent college graduates to take teaching jobs in remote and poverty-stricken minority areas.
Article 31 Children of teachers working in primary and high schools of remote and poverty-stricken minority areas and in all forms of minority schools and classes shall, when at school, enjoy the preferential treatment to ethnic minority students stipulated in these regulations.
Chapter VI Guarantee of Conditions
Article 32 The municipal, county (district) people¡¯s governments shall be in charge of raising funds for the education expenditure and the basic construction needed by the compulsory education in minority areas.
Government appropriations constitute the main body of the minority educational expenditure and basic construction.
Article 33 The municipal, county (district) people¡¯s governments shall set up a special fund for minority education, assisting the development of minority education. The special fund comes from:
(1) fiscal budgets of the municipal, county (district) people¡¯s governments;
(2) certain proportion of subsidies granted by the State to ethnic minority areas and of other poverty-relieving funds;
(3) certain proportion of extra charges of education funds collected by the municipal, county (district) people¡¯s governments;
(4) other funds.
Funds from the fiscal budgets cover most of the special fund for minority education.
Article 34 The special fund for minority education shall be used in the following events of developing minority education:
(1) improving school conditions for all forms of minority schools and classes, primary and high schools of remote and poverty-stricken minority areas;
(2) granting appropriate allowances for students in all forms of minority schools and classes, primary and high schools of remote and poverty-stricken minority areas;
(3) giving benefits to teachers in all forms of minority schools and classes, primary and high schools of remote and poverty-stricken minority areas.
The municipal special fund for minority education shall be mainly used to help remote and poverty-stricken minority areas with their compulsory education.
The use of the special fund for minority education shall be planned annually by the administrative departments of education under the municipal, county (district) people¡¯s governments and submitted to the correspondent people¡¯s governments for approval.
It is forbidden to misappropriate or withhold the minority educational funds appropriated by the higher authorities or the living and studying allowances granted for students in minority classes appropriated by the people¡¯s governments at all levels.
Article 35 Special funds shall be appropriated by the municipal, county (district) people¡¯s governments for the living allowance and reduced or exempted tuitions, miscellaneous fees, textbook costs, boarding fees for students in primary and high schools of remote and poverty-stricken minority areas and in all forms of minority schools and classes.
Article 36 The county (district) people¡¯s governments shall see to it that the average expenses for students in all forms of minority schools and classes and in primary and high schools of remote and poverty-stricken minority areas are 15% higher than those in other normal schools.
Article 37 The people¡¯s governments at all levels encourage social organizations and individuals both at home and abroad to donate money for education in remote and poverty-stricken minority areas.
Article 38 The municipal and county people¡¯s governments shall offer preferential treatments to the social organizations and individuals that run primary and high schools in minority areas in accordance with relevant regulations on land use and construction of public welfare undertakings.
Article 39 Departments of education, finance, development and reform, and auditing under the municipal, county (district) people¡¯s governments shall reinforce supervision, examination and audit the special fund for minority education to ensure that it is appropriated timely and utilized effectively.
Chapter VII Rewards and Penalties
Article 40 The people¡¯s governments at all levels or their administrative departments of education shall award the units and individuals that achieve one of the followings:
(1) making outstanding contributions in education or teaching work in remote and poverty-stricken minority areas, in minority schools and classes;
(2) working for minority education for a long time and making outstanding contributions;
(3) making outstanding achievements in scientific research on minority education;
(4) assisting and investing quite a lot in education in minority areas;
(5) supporting counterpart education and making outstanding contributions to the counterpart¡¯s educational development
(6) making other great contributions to minority educational undertakings.
Article 41 Units or higher competent administrative departments shall impose administrative sanctions on the leading persons in charge who violate Article 17 (obstructing trans-county (district) enrollment for secondary vocational schools, or who violate Article 34 (diverting the special fund for minority education to other purposes).
Chapter VIII Supplementary Provisions
Article 42 The division plan of remote and poverty-stricken minority areas shall be submitted by county (district) people¡¯s government to the municipal people¡¯s government for approval.
Article 43 These regulations shall go into effect as of September 1, 2005.
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