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Two Conferences: Deputy to the National People’s Congress He Binsheng: "Reducing Burdens" for Private Education

He Binsheng recommended the classification management of private education in the two national conferences in 2013. Since then, there have been many opinions concerning this issue. He submitted proposals to remove the discrimination of private education and to eliminate the gap between private and public organizations. He Binsheng was assured that in the third-party review, his policy of private school qualifications, same tax policies with public schools, average financial allocation, and of the land supply have all adopted.

He Binsheng is a deputy of the National People’s Congress and the chairman of the Changsha Medical College.

“Mr. He, how many opinions and proposals have you submitted over the past five years?” asked by a reporter. "60 opinions and 4 proposals," He Binsheng answered. Most of the opinions and proposals are related to education and health care.

According to the reporters of the Hunan delegation, some people are familiar with He Binsheng's temperament. "He is a tough nut. These bills and proposals were raised by him."

He Binsheng worried and fought for workers’ rights, even pounding on the table and saying, “On what basis do staff in public schools have endowment insurance, but those in private schools do not?” during meetings. Before the three amendments to the “Promotion Law of the People’s Republic of China on the Promotion of Private Education” passed, in the consultation meeting, he strongly strived for the endowment insurance for private schools’ faculty and staff.

He is not afraid to offend people. That pound on the table was taken for more than 4 million teachers and staff in private schools. This insurance is not the welfare of teachers and staff in private schools, but more like ending the label of “second-class citizens” about private school teachers.

In recent years, he participated in lots of legislative hearings to amend the Private Education Promotion Law. His proposal was not adopted in the second round review; however, it was finally adopted after the third round review. He found that there was one more provision saying that, “State encourages private schools to apply for supplementary endowment insurance for their teachers and staff in accordance with state regulations.”                                         

He Binsheng once said: "Private education is full of all kinds of shackles and discrimination," and the five-year term of office for delegates is to "reduce the burden" of private education.

“The pace of decentralization should be a little bigger,” He Binsheng suggested. For private schools, the state should appropriately liberalize the right to enroll students. Decentralization will not lead to enrollment, or corruption, but will promote schools to set up majors according to market demand and cultivate "marketable talents."

 

Edited by Ran Yu