Journal of East China Normal University(Educationa ›› 2025, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (11): 48-61.doi: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2025.11.005

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Fiscal Resilience of Education: Chinese Experience and Construction Logic

Zhong Ye, Chenxu Liu   

  1. Institute of Educational Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210097, China
  • Accepted:2025-08-04 Online:2025-11-01 Published:2025-11-03

Abstract:

Building a resilient education finance system is a crucial foundation for constructing an education powerhouse. The resilience of education finance refers to the ability of the education system to maintain the stability, equity, and quality of educational services through financial reserves and resource allocation adjustments when facing economic fluctuations, population changes, public fiscal tightening, emergencies, or social transformations. Its core lies in establishing a healthy, stable, and sustainable education finance mechanism that can proactively adapt to changes. The analytical framework for education finance resilience includes four dimensions: revenue resilience, expenditure resilience, institutional resilience, and support resilience. In terms of theoretical lineage, the connotations, core characteristics, constituent elements, and key challenges of basic education finance resilience and higher education finance resilience are distinct yet interconnected. There are international best practices and practical experiences that can enhance education finance resilience, which can be leveraged through international theoretical and practical dialogues to drive breakthroughs in China's unique theory of education finance resilience.

Key words: financial resilience of education, educational power, Chinese experience, construct logic