University and college teachers have steadily increased their incomes and improved their living standard in recent years, according to a lawmaker from east China�s Fujian Province.
While deliberating the government work report delivered by Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, Chen Zhangliang, vice-president of prodigious Beijing University, said, �We teachers all have noticed a substantial increase over the past few years in government expenditures in the educational sector.�
Chen, a deputy to the National People�s Congress, China�s top legislature, said that a few years ago university teachers earned as much as taxi drivers or even less, thus feeling disappointed.
�Yet in the last a couple of years there has been no great change in tax drivers� earnings, whereas the income of college teachers has risen by a big margin,� he said, adding: �At last we college teachers now can lead a decent life.�
(Xinhua News Agency March 9, 2002)
