Chinese schools caught charging 3.02 billion yuan illegally

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Chinese schools caught charging 3.02 billion yuan illegally

The Chinese Ministry of Supervision said Wednesday it dug out 8,539 cases last year in which schools illegally charged fees worth 3.02 billion yuan (some364 million US dollars).

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The Chinese Ministry of Supervision said Wednesday it dug out 8,539 cases last year in which schools illegally charged fees worth 3.02 billion yuan (some364 million US dollars).

The Ministry said approximately 630 million yuan (76 million USdollars) had been returned after it launched an inspection in 12 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities jointly with the Ministry of Education last year.

After the inspection, 2,824 illegal charges by schools and local education administrations were canceled and 1,316 were reduced, the ministry said.

Last year China standardized tuition and fees charged by primary and middle schools in 592 poor counties, with which 1.7 billion yuan (20.5 million US dollars) had been cut.

The ministry also released that Chinese hospitals paid 41.8 billion yuan (about 5 billion US dollars) for medicines after theystarted to buy them through public bidding last year.

The new method for hospitals to purchase medicines has led to aprice drop of medicines and curbed malpractice between hospitals and pharmaceutical companies, the ministry said.

Meanwhile, it added, China cut more than 64.7 billion yuan (7.8billion US dollars) of illegal charges on farmers last year by taxation reform and rigid inspection.

Source:Xinhua

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