Task 5(口譯任務(wù)5)中國(guó)的教育投資

　　任務(wù)要求：下面你將聽(tīng)到一段關(guān)于中國(guó)教育投資情況的講話，請(qǐng)先作相應(yīng)的譯前準(zhǔn)備，然后再開(kāi)始口譯。

　　1997年以來(lái)，中國(guó)的教育投資保持快速增長(zhǎng)，平均每年增長(zhǎng)16.7%。//

　　去年教育投資總額達(dá)到5480億元，比1997年增長(zhǎng)116.4%，財(cái)政教育資金占全國(guó)GDP(國(guó)內(nèi)生產(chǎn)總值)的3.41%。//

　　據(jù)稱，自1998年以來(lái)，教育資金占中央財(cái)政支出的比例每年上漲1個(gè)百分點(diǎn)，各級(jí)政府去年財(cái)政預(yù)算中的教育撥款達(dá)到3114億元。//

　　從1998年到2000年，中央政府已經(jīng)劃撥148.2億元國(guó)債用以加強(qiáng)教育基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施建設(shè)，增加西部地區(qū)接受高等教育人數(shù)。//

　　此外，十五期間，中央和地方政府已經(jīng)撥款近200億元用以實(shí)施“貧困地區(qū)義務(wù)教育工程”。//

　　從2001年開(kāi)始，中央財(cái)政每年撥款1億元，設(shè)立“國(guó)家義務(wù)教育貧困學(xué)生助學(xué)”專用基金。//

　　這些專用基金將全部用于革命老區(qū)和西部貧困地區(qū)的中小學(xué)生雜費(fèi)減免和生活費(fèi)補(bǔ)助。

　　Since 1997, China’s investment in education has maintained a constant and rapid growth with an average annual growth rate of 16.7 percent.//

　　Last year, the investment in education totaled 548 billion yuan, up 116.4 percent over 1997. The proportion of financial education funds to China’s gross domestic product (GDP) reached 3.41 percent last year. //

　　Sources say, with the proportion of education funds in central government’s financial expenditure rising 1 percentage point every year from 1998, the allocation on education in the financial budgets of the governments at various levels totaled 311.4 billion yuan last year.//

　　From 1998 to 2000, the central government had allocated 14.82 billion yuan state treasury bonds to strengthen the educational infrastructure construction and the expansion of higher education enrollment in China’s western regions.//

　　In addition, during the 10th Five-Year plan period (2001-05), the central and local governments have allocated almost 20 billion yuan, starting the “Project of Compulsory Education in Poverty-stricken Areas”. //

　　Since the year 2001, the central financial department has allocated 100 million yuan every year to establish the special fund for “National Assistantship for Compulsory Education of Poor Students”.//

　　This special fund aims to cut or cancel the incidental expenses of middle and primary school students in the old revolutionary base areas and western poverty-stricken regions and to provide them with living subsidies.