Millions of students supported last year

The Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region provided financial aid to more than 4.2 million poor students in 2018, the regional education department said. Xinjiang has waived tuition fees, and offered scholarships, grants, subsidies and loans to students at all levels who have financial difficulties, from kindergarten to university, it said. Starting in October 2016, school fees for all public kindergartens in rural areas of Xinjiang have been paid by the government.