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　　Task 5(口译任务5)中国的教育投资

　　任务要求：下面你将听到一段关于中国教育投资情况的讲话，请先作相应的译前准备，然后再开始口译。

　　1997年以来，中国的教育投资保持快速增长，平均每年增长16.7%。//

　　去年教育投资总额达到5480亿元，比1997年增长116.4%，财政教育资金占全国GDP(国内生产总值)的3.41%。//

　　据称，自1998年以来，教育资金占中央财政支出的比例每年上涨1个百分点，各级政府去年财政预算中的教育拨款达到3114亿元。//

　　从1998年到2000年，中央政府已经划拨148.2亿元国债用以加强教育基础设施建设，增加西部地区接受高等教育人数。//

　　此外，十五期间，中央和地方政府已经拨款近200亿元用以实施“贫困地区义务教育工程”。//

　　从2001年开始，中央财政每年拨款1亿元，设立“国家义务教育贫困学生助学”专用基金。//

　　这些专用基金将全部用于革命老区和西部贫困地区的中小学生杂费减免和生活费补助。

　　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.