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China to regulate reference book market
Thursday December 29, 2011 05:16:33 PM,
IANS
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Beijing: China plans
to regulate the reference book market for primary and middle
school students.
It will impose strict supervision on publication and distribution
channels, the education ministry said Wednesday.
The ministry will strengthen regulations on editing, printing and
distribution of such books, Xinhua quoted Education Minister Yuan
Guiren as saying.
Yuan asked education departments at all levels not to force
students or schools to purchase reference books. He also urged the
schools not to force students to buy such books.
In China, it is common for students in primary and middle schools
to attend after school tution classes to improve exam scores,
which has resulted in a booming market for reference books.
Some publishing houses, book dealers and schools are blamed for
seeking illegal kickbacks by forcing students to buy certain
reference books.
China has spent about 23 billion yuan (nearly $4 billion) in 2010
and 2011 to improve boarding, lodging and library facilities of
primary and middle schools in the rural areas to narrow the gap of
education between rural and urban areas.
To prevent malnutrition in poor areas, the government appropriated
over 16 billion yuan in 2011 to initiate a nutrition improvement
program that provides a daily three-yuan subsidy to each student
taking compulsory education.
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