Special-post teachers completing three years successfully and wishing to stay should be moved into established posts
China's special-post teacher program explicitly provides for established staffing after successful service for those wishing to remain. The cited 2024 notice generally requires a bachelor's degree or above, favors teacher-training subjects, sets age at no more than 30, and requires the appropriate teaching credential. During the three years, comparable conditions should receive treatment equal to established teachers in local public schools.
What it takes
No application charge stated. The commitment is three years teaching in a rural compulsory-education school, with the relevant teaching qualification required before entry.
What you may gain
The 2024 notice generally requires a bachelor's degree or above, primarily in teacher education; primary schools may appropriately recruit graduates of teacher-training junior colleges. Applicants should be no older than 30 and hold the relevant teaching qualification. On equal terms, preference goes to Western Program volunteers with teaching experience and teacher-training graduates with at least six months of practice teaching. Eligible veterans are encouraged, with age flexibility taking service length into account. From January 1, 2024, central annual wage-subsidy standards rose from RMB 35,200 to RMB 38,800 in central regions and from RMB 38,200 to RMB 41,800 in western regions. Pay, title assessment and appointment, awards, and annual appraisal should match comparable established public-school teachers. Those completing three years, passing assessment, and wishing to remain must receive timely established staffing and posts, with personnel and wage relationships transferred, continuous employment and teaching seniority, and no new probation.
Context & considerations
The source rates the benefit large because a continuing established post has value well beyond RMB 10,000. Its latest retrieved notice was for 2024; it did not obtain 2025 or 2026 notices from the policy database. Check the current national announcement and provincial plan for posts, subsidies, and age conditions. The national document provides the framework; provinces supply details. Obtain the required teaching qualification before joining rather than assuming it can be added later.
Research & references
General Offices of the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Finance (2024). Notice on implementing the 2024 special-post teacher program for rural compulsory-education schools, Jiaoshiting [2024] No. 1. https://www.gov.cn/zhengce/zhengceku/202405/content_6950803.htm