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Chinese families across the country are able to send their children to school tuition-free in the nine-year compulsory education period as of Monday. From this fall semester, about 28.21 million urban students in primary schools and in junior high schools joined rural students to benefit from the plan, according to the Ministry of Education. The students still must pay for textbooks and uniforms. Students in rural areas have already started to enjoy the treatment, benefiting about 150 million students. The fees are not much for ordinary urban families but still a burden for low-income families.