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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2015, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (19): 252-257.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb15010134

Special Issue: 现代农业发展与乡村振兴

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Unbalanced Development of Education Between Urban and Rural Areas in China

  

  • Received:2015-01-19 Revised:2015-05-04 Accepted:2015-05-14 Online:2015-07-28 Published:2015-07-28

Abstract: With the development of socialism market economy and the advancement of urbanization, a lot of new problems came out in social and economic development in China. Unbalanced social and economic development produced unbalanced urban and rural education. And the unbalanced education became the influencing factor of social development and economic growth. Unbalanced education between urban and rural areas in China was caused by the gap in education funding, teachers’capability and education opportunity between urban and rural areas. Unbalanced education caused the lag of rural economic development, made a vicious circle of“lagged economy-lagged education-lagged economy” . Besides, unbalanced education led to the insufficiency of talents in rural areas and large employment pressure in urban areas. Unbalanced education also resulted in the backward growth in population, legal system and culture in rural areas in social development. At last the author put forward suggestions of enhancing education support from three aspects which were giving preferential opportunity, improving education fund investment and teacher resource to promote the balanced development of urban and rural education.