Teachers Everywhere Write to Us Solving the Problem of Teachers' Salary Arrears Brooks No Delay

There has already been much improvement in recent years in the problem of arrears in the salaries of secondary and elementary schoolteachers, thanks to the attention paid by the Party Central Committee and the State Council, and to the joint efforts made by party committees and governments at all levels. However, for various reasons, the problem of arrears in teachers' salaries is still quite serious in some districts. In the recent period, this newspaper has been constantly receiving articles and letters from teachers all over the country, complaining that the problem of teachers' salary arrears still exists in their own region, in some places so seriously that it has already affected the everyday lives of the teachers, the normal teaching order, and the stability of the teaching contingent.