Subsidize for Impoverished Students
In compulsory education, China has invested large funds to practice the policy of "Two Exemptions and One Subsidization" and ensure each student at a proper schooling age can complete his or her nine year compulsory education. In college education, the Chinese government specifically stated its solemn commitment that "not a single college student will drop out of school due to poverty" and improved and strengthened its subsidization policies in this area. Impoverished students in vocational high schools can also enjoy a subsidy of RMB 1,500 yuan a year. At present, only the students in regular high schools have not yet had any help from the subsidization policies of the state. And such a problem also fails to draw extensive attention among various social groups. In the remote regions in Guizhou, many students have failed to complete high school education due to impoverished family background and had to drop out.
According to relevant statistics, there are about 4-5 million impoverished high school students in China. Among them 1-1.5 million are exceptionally impoverished students. Large amounts of excellent talents have to drop out of school due to family financial difficulty after they entered high school and this ends their dream to continue education and change the fate of their own family and also the backwardness of their hometown.
In order to help resolve the issue of the dropouts among the impoverished students from the mountainous areas in Guizhou, the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation established the program of "Funding Impoverished High School Students". The recipients of the funding will be exceptionally impoverished students respectively from the Leishan County in the Southeastern Qian Region Miao and Dong Ethnic Group Autonomous Prefecture and the Sandu Shui Ethnic Group Autonomous County in the Southern Qian Region Buyi and Miao Ethnic Group Autonomous Prefecture in Guizhou Province. In 2011, the program became one of the recommended programs of the Dream Choir, a large public interest and charity television program produced by China Central Television. As a sole provider of the public interest and charity funds, the China Merchants Securities provided RMB 700,000 yuan to the program to fund two first grade high school classes and one third grade high school classes to complete their high school education.
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