Free Compulsory Education.

The article focuses on Chinese central government, which started to take on more financial responsibility for basic education to provide free textbooks to poor students in China's western rural areas. It states that education is one of the most vital and costly public services provided by governments. It also cites that in addition to budgetary expenditures, general education in the country is financed from user charges, incomes from school enterprises, social contributions, as well as school financing from state-owned enterprises and other organizations.