Changed the rules but not the status quo.

Editor’s note: This article from the public micro-channel number “Sanlihe” (ID: Sanlihe1) , author Carlo.

Beijing ’s school district houses a chain of contempt: Desheng District in Xicheng District-Financial Street District in Xicheng District-Wanliu, Zhongguancun, Shangdi in Haidian District ——Hepingli in Dongcheng, where Desheng and Financial Street areas in Xicheng District are at the top of the contempt chain due to the gathering of “niuxiao”.

In the “May Day” small holiday just passed, the transaction volume of Beijing ’s Xicheng District, with Deshenghe Financial District as its main area, increased by more than 100% month-on-month and year-on-year, and 10 sets of tens of millions of “old broken small” were sold in a single day .

This media call “the last madness of housing in the Beijing school district” was caused by the new admission rules issued by the Xicheng District Board of Education on April 30. According to regulations, since July 31, 2020, when new-age homebuyers in Xicheng District have school-age children applying for admission, they will no longer be registered as school-sponsored schools, but all will be enrolled in a “multi-school school” mode.

That is to say, after 731, the purchase of a specific property will no longer correspond to one but many schools. The school district room can no longer be locked to a top prestigious school, and students who meet the admission requirements can be assigned by random lottery. Possible.

With Xicheng joining multi-school planning, all six districts of Beijing have begun to implement newly-purchased second-hand housing multi-school planning, which means that Beijing’s “high-priced school district housing” may come to an end.

In a total of 4 batches of 68 demonstration high schools in Beijing, Xicheng District occupies the first place with 15 schools alone, which can be described as Beijing’s strongest education area. As a district with the most superior educational resources in Beijing and the latest implementation of the multi-school planning policy, it is not surprising that changes in the admission policy of Xicheng District have caused a strong reaction from the housing market.

School district housing is the use of real estate to occupy high-quality educational resources or more simply to be a key schoolAlthough the pure market-oriented European and American countries will also form school district houses due to the Matthew effect of social resources, in China, its production is more related to a series of policies.

The most fundamental of these are the “key school” policy and the “adjacent school” policy, which can be said to provide a large premise for the school district.

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The “Key School” policy began in 1953, at that time mainly to solve the problems of low quality and uneven development of education after the founding of New China. In 1953, the government established the policy of “rectifying and consolidating, focusing on development, improving quality, and advancing steadily,” and proposed “key schools to be run.” Subsequently, 194 first key schools in the country were identified.

According to Beijing General Education Yearbook, 1949-1991, in Xicheng, Beijing, ten middle schools for women’s No. 1 middle school, women’s third middle school, third middle school, fourth middle school and Normal University’s women’s affiliated middle school became key middle schools this year.

In 1959, China proposed to “focus on a large number of key schools first” to train higher-quality professionals and promote the improvement of scientific and cultural undertakings. Since then, construction of key national higher education institutions has begun.

After the savage development, in 1962, the Ministry of Education proposed to streamline, reduce and merge ordinary schools at all levels across the country, and increase the intensity of building key schools. The “Notice on Running a Group of Full-time Primary and Secondary Schools with Focus” requires that, on the basis of the original list of key primary and secondary schools, re-select a batch of primary and secondary schools. ” Key middle schools have been streamlined during this period.

In 1978, key schools resumed their agenda. At that time, the Ministry of Education formulated the “Trial Plan for Running a Group of Key Primary and Secondary Schools”, proposed that the national key primary and secondary schools form a “small pyramid” structure, and inclined to key schools in terms of funding, schooling conditions, teaching staff, and student sources. As a result, a pattern of “levels of focus” for key schools at the national, provincial, prefecture, and county levels was formed.

Beijing General Education Yearbook stated that, according to the spirit of the 1978 document, “Beijing No. 4 Middle School is a national key school, Beijing No. 8 Middle School, Experimental Middle School, Normal University Second Affiliated Middle School, and Beijing No. 161 Middle School are Beijing Key Schools …” .

In the 1990s, the development of key schools reached its peak. In 1990, when the National Education Commission formulated the 10-year national education plan and the “Eighth Five-Year Plan”, it determined that there were about 100 key colleges and universities under construction around 2000, and requested that this matter be regarded as a major event facing the “21st century”. Here, this measure is the “211 Project”. Beijing eventually became