2.10. A Study of the Achievements and Dilemmas of the Special Post Plan in China - Yonggui Dong, Qian Zhou

This study was designed to explore its true situation by interviewing 90 informants, purposely sampled from 13 primary schools in G County of Henan Province, China, who covered a variety of posts, including educational officials, school senior administrators and teachers. Furthermore, non-participant ob-servations and text analysis of policies provided were taken for data collection. The findings show that while the Special Post Plan policy effectively alleviated the severe shortage of teachers in the rural areas and improved teacher quality, some structural constraints remained that were generated by the policy itself.