Since the beginning of this school year, the Yinzhou District shall offer 12-year free education to all the students from the first grader in the primary school to the third-year students in the senior high school. It becomes the first district that offers a 12-year free education in Zhejiang.

　　August 31 is the registration day of the Yinzhou Middle School. The students and parents find that they only have to pay the accommodation fee and the administration fee and that the tuition of 2300 yuan has been exempted.

　　Not only the Yinzhou Middle School, but all middle schools in Yinzhou have received this gift on the beginning of the new semester.

　　Li Yongming, Chief Director, Yinzhou Education Bureau: The exemption of tuition fees target eight public schools and three private schools, involving 13000 senior-high students. Each year, the finance bureau will earmark an amount of 30 million yuan for the exemption of tuition.

　　It is learned with the implementation of the exemption policy, the 140,000 students will enjoy 12-year free education. For this the District finance bureau will put in 130 million yuan. Against the new charging standards, each student will save about 15000 yuan from the first year in the primary school to the graduation from the senior high.