Financial investment is the material guarantee for the healthy and sustainable development of preschool education. In recent years, China has attached great importance to the reform and development of preschool education, and its financial investment in preschool education continues to increase. Public kindergartens are the main target of financial investment in preschool education, and the number of kindergartens has continued to expand. However, the problem of "difficulty and expensive admission" has never been fundamentally solved. The author believes that the current public financial support for the reform and development of public parks is faced with the following problems: financial investment is mainly special funds, with insufficient long-term stability; financial investment is unbalanced, and development differences between regions are large; the financial sharing mechanism is unreasonable, and district and county governments There are too many household responsibilities; financial investment is unfair, resulting in high investment and aristocratic phenomena. Therefore, the following suggestions are put forward: formulate unified standards and establish an institutional funding investment system for preschool education; increase special investment in disadvantaged areas to ensure balanced development of public kindergartens; determine the sharing ratio and establish a sound sharing mechanism between families and finance at all levels; establish funding investment supervision mechanism to enhance the fairness of funding investment.

Han Zhang. The effectiveness, problems and suggestions of public financial support for the reform and development of public kindergartens. Academic Journal of Business & Management (2023) Vol. 5, Issue 21: 73-79. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJBM.2023.052111.

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