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"These 50 items are just the baseline for university information openness. We encourage universities to do more to give the public access to university affairs."

Xu Mei, spokeswoman for the Ministry of Education, said after the ministry released a circular calling for the timely disclosure of information from universities following a series of scandals. The circular ordered colleges to publicize their budgets and final accounts as well as details of how they use endowments, university enterprise assets and billing requirements.