On September 1, 2008 (August 2, 2008 in the lunar calendar), urban compulsory education students were completely exempted from tuition and miscellaneous fees nationwide. On September 1, 2008, China completely exempted urban compulsory education students from tuition and miscellaneous fees nationwide. The tuition and miscellaneous fees for rural compulsory education students have been waived before, which means that China will realize all free tuition and miscellaneous fees for urban and rural compulsory education from this day. It is understood that the waiver of urban compulsory education fees will benefit 28.21 million students in 25,900 urban primary and secondary schools across the country. Each student can be exempted from fees ranging from 190 yuan to 350 yuan per year. Ministry of Education Minister Zhou Ji proposed on the 23rd that efforts should be made to do a good job in the education of the children of migrant workers and ensure their equal right to receive compulsory education. Zhou Ji pointed out that the exemption of urban compulsory education tuition and miscellaneous fees is another major decision decided by the State Council to implement after the reform of the rural compulsory education funding guarantee mechanism. It is a concrete manifestation of promoting the balanced development of compulsory education and promoting educational equity. It is necessary to gradually improve the urban compulsory education funding guarantee mechanism and promote the balanced development of compulsory education. It is necessary to speed up the transformation of weak schools, implement a system of balanced allocation of principals and teachers and regular exchanges, comprehensively promote the reform of the senior high school entrance examination and the reform of student evaluation methods, and distribute the majority of enrollment indicators in model high schools to junior high schools in a balanced manner. Zhou Ji stressed that it is necessary to continue to take rural compulsory education as the top priority of education work, and further increase support for rural compulsory education in terms of fund management, school building renovation, financial assistance for boarders with family economic difficulties, control of arbitrary fees, improvement of learning and living conditions, and improvement of student nutrition.