But after more than 40 years of taking total responsibility for education within the framework of a centrally planned economy, the authorities in Beijing started realizing that the financial burden of educating 1.3 billion people was just too heavy for the government to shoulder on its own.
但四十多年計畫經濟之下的「包辦教育」，逐漸讓北京當局體認到十三億人口的教育經費，是承受不了的「重」。