The report on the development of China's education expenditure of the 12th five-year plan period, jointly compiled by the Center and the Department of Finance, was officially published by the People's Education Press on November 2017 after several rounds of proofreading, revision and examination with the close cooperation of relevant departments of the People's Education Press.

The book is divided into chapter 11, a total of 270000 words, the introduction to the development of the education funds of the 12th five-year period, on the basis of macroscopic background and overall achievement, the report on China's Economic Statistics Education Database, analyses the opportunities and challenges facing the development of education funds and focus on the national and local as well as the condition of education investment and expenditure of all types and at all levels and the efficiency of the comprehensive and systematic comprehensive comparison and analysis, objective reflection and evaluation of the provincial government education investment and guarantee degree of efforts and progress, and education for all levels of government fiscal policy to provide important reference basis.