Author(s)

Yiwei Ma

Corresponding Author

Yiwei Ma

ABSTRACT

Preschool education is a quasi-public product with public welfare as its fundamental attribute. In order to reflect its most fundamental social public welfare, the government must bear the main financial investment responsibility. The overall strategy of the reform of preschool education system should be “the country advances and the people retreats”, that is, the preschool education market led and regulated by the government should be established, and the state should bear the main responsibility of investing in preschool education funds, so that every school-age child can enjoy the right to receive high-quality preschool education. Due to the limited financial resources of many local governments below the city level, the main source of preschool education funds is still family. In this period, the financial input of preschool education should be led by the government, and regulated by two tracks, that is, administrative planning and market means should be used together to macroscopically standardize and guide the reform of the financial system of preschool education. This paper studies the current situation of preschool education costs and fees in China, and comprehensively solves the problems of rational allocation and effective utilization of urban and rural educational resources, and more importantly, it must solve the inter-provincial flow of preschool education funds. The most effective way to solve this problem is to implement the pre-school education voucher system as soon as possible.

KEYWORDS

Preschool education in china, Costs and charges, System reform