各市、县人民政府，省政府各部门、各直属机构：为了适应农村义务教育改革和发展的需要，推进农村义务教育持续健康发展，根据《国务院关于基础教育改革与发展的决定》国发〔２００１〕２１号精神，现就保障农村义务教育投入和农村教师工资发放的有关工作通知如下：一、充分认 Municipal and county people’s governments, provincial government departments, and various directly-affiliated institutions: In order to meet the needs of rural compulsory education reform and development, promote the sustained and healthy development of rural compulsory education, according to the “Decision of the State Council on Basic Education Reform and Development” (2001). In the spirit of No. 21, the relevant work on the protection of rural compulsory education investment and the payment of rural teachers’ salaries is now as follows: 1. Fully confessed