The current situation of rural teacher resource allocation in western China Investigation and Research (Taking Jingning County of Gansu Province as an Example)

Liu Bohong(School of International Education, Hainan Normal University)

Abstract

For Chinas western regions, rural education is key to promoting rural revitalization and achieving high-quality, balanced regional education development. The stability of the rural teaching workforce is even more crucial for ensuring educational equity and advancing the integrated development of regional education toward high-quality balance. Since 2020, when Gansu Province as a whole passed the national assessment for balanced compulsory education at the county level, it has implemented teacher recruitment policies such as the Special Post Program, "Three Supports and One Assistance" initiative, the Excellent Teacher Program, free normal students, and primary school all-round teachers to fully equip rural areas with teaching staff and stabilize the rural teaching workforce. However, under the current trend of intensifying urbanization, declining rural populations, and annual contraction of rural education, how is the allocation of rural teachers? Can the current status of the rural teaching workforce meet the new demands of social development on rural education? This paper takes Jingning County in Pingliang City, Gansu Province—a region bordering Ningxia, Gansu, Shaanxi, and Sichuan—as a case study to investigate the allocation and status of rural teachers in western China.

Keywords

rural teachers; resource allocation; development planning

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12345/ret.v8i2.33966