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Wales">England and Wales</a> in which a <a href="/wiki/Foundation_(charity)" class="mw-redirect" title="Foundation (charity)">foundation</a> or <a href="/wiki/Charitable_trust" title="Charitable trust">trust</a> (usually a religious organisation) contributes to building costs and has a substantial influence in the running of the school. In most cases the foundation or trust owns the buildings.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Such schools have more autonomy than <a href="/wiki/Voluntary_controlled_school" title="Voluntary controlled school">voluntary controlled schools</a>, which are entirely funded by the state. In some circumstances local authorities can help the governing body in buying a site, or can provide a site or building free of charge.<sup id="cite_ref-BlueBookGuidance_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BlueBookGuidance-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a>'s education system also has aided (<a href="/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_characters" title="Traditional Chinese characters">Chinese</a>: <span lang="zh-Hant">資助</span>) schools.<sup id="cite_ref-POA74_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-POA74-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Characteristics">Characteristics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Voluntary_aided_school&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Characteristics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The running costs of voluntary aided schools, like those of other <a href="/wiki/Maintained_school" class="mw-redirect" title="Maintained school">state-maintained schools</a>, are fully paid by central government via the <a href="/wiki/Local_authority" class="mw-redirect" title="Local authority">local authority</a>. They differ from other maintained schools in that only 90% of their <a href="/wiki/Capital_costs" class="mw-redirect" title="Capital costs">capital costs</a> are met by the state, with the school's foundation contributing the remaining 10%.<sup id="cite_ref-BlueBook_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BlueBook-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many VA faith schools belong to diocesan maintenance schemes or other types of funding programme to help them to manage those costs.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> VA schools are not allowed to charge fees to students, although parents are usually encouraged to pay a voluntary contribution towards the schools' maintenance funds.<sup id="cite_ref-DoWGuidance_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DoWGuidance-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ParentContribBBCNewsSep2015_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ParentContribBBCNewsSep2015-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The foundation usually owns the school's land and buildings, although there are instances where VA schools use local authority land and buildings.<sup id="cite_ref-RichmondLA_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RichmondLA-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The foundation appoints a majority of the <a href="/wiki/School_governor" title="School governor">school governors</a>, who run the school, employ the staff and decide the school's admission arrangements, subject to the national Schools Admissions Code.<sup id="cite_ref-admissionsCode_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-admissionsCode-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Specific exemptions from Section 85 of the <a href="/wiki/Equality_Act_2010" title="Equality Act 2010">Equality Act 2010</a> enables VA faith schools to use faith criteria in prioritising pupils for admission to the schools.<sup id="cite_ref-equalityAct2010_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-equalityAct2010-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Pupils at voluntary aided schools follow the <a href="/wiki/National_Curriculum_for_England" title="National Curriculum for England">National Curriculum</a>. Like all faith schools, VA faith schools may teach <a href="/wiki/Religious_education" title="Religious education">religious education</a> according to their own faith.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Voluntary_aided_school&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Prior to the 19th century, there were a variety of schools in England and Wales, from <a href="/wiki/Charity_school" title="Charity school">charity schools</a> providing basic education for the poor to <a href="/wiki/Financial_endowment" title="Financial endowment">endowed</a> schools (often <a href="/wiki/Grammar_school" title="Grammar school">grammar schools</a>) providing secondary or all-age education. Early in that century, the <a href="/wiki/British_and_Foreign_School_Society" title="British and Foreign School Society">British and Foreign School Society</a> and the <a href="/wiki/National_Society_for_Promoting_Religious_Education" title="National Society for Promoting Religious Education">National Society for Promoting Religious Education</a> sought to provide <a href="/wiki/Elementary_school" class="mw-redirect" title="Elementary school">elementary</a> schooling for poor children, setting up non-denominational British Schools and <a href="/wiki/Church_of_England" title="Church of England">Church of England</a> <a href="/wiki/National_school_(England_and_Wales)" title="National school (England and Wales)">National schools</a> respectively. From 1833, the State began to provide grants to support these elementary schools and the less wealthy endowed schools. They were joined by the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Poor_School_Committee" class="mw-redirect" title="Catholic Poor School Committee">Catholic Poor School Committee</a>, which established <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic">Roman Catholic</a> elementary schools and received its first state grant in 1847. Secondary education also expanded at the same time, including a series of Roman Catholic secondary schools established by religious orders.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Lawson_and_Silver_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lawson_and_Silver-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The state began to provide elementary education in 1870 and secondary education in 1902, but also continued to increase funding to the schools run by other organisations (usually the churches), now known as <b>voluntary schools</b>. In return these schools were increasingly influenced by the state, and were subject to jointly administered inspections.<sup id="cite_ref-Lawson_and_Silver_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lawson_and_Silver-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1926, secondary voluntary schools were required to choose between being "grant-aided" by the local authority, or receiving a "direct grant" from central government.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Under the <a href="/wiki/Education_Act_1944" title="Education Act 1944">Education Act 1944</a>, most of the direct grant schools became <a href="/wiki/Direct_grant_grammar_school" title="Direct grant grammar school">direct grant grammar schools</a>. The Act also imposed higher standards on school facilities, and offered the remaining voluntary schools a choice in funding the costs this would incur: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Voluntary_controlled_school" title="Voluntary controlled school">Voluntary controlled schools</a> would have all their costs met by the state, and would be controlled by the <a href="/wiki/Local_education_authority" class="mw-redirect" title="Local education authority">local education authority</a>.</li> <li><b>Voluntary aided schools</b> would have all of their running costs met by the state, but their capital costs would only be partly state funded, with the foundation retaining greater influence over school admission policies, staffing and curriculum.</li></ul> <p>The Catholic Church chose to retain control of all of its schools, while more than half of Church of England schools became voluntary controlled. The state contribution to capital works for voluntary aided schools was originally 50%. It was increased to 75% by the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Education_Act_1959&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Education Act 1959 (page does not exist)">Education Act 1959</a>, and is now 90%.<sup id="cite_ref-Lawson_and_Silver_22-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lawson_and_Silver-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education_Act_1975">Education Act 1975</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Voluntary_aided_school&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Education Act 1975"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>By the mid-1970s, under Harold Wilson's second Labour government, most local authorities were in the final stages of reorganising secondary education along <a href="/wiki/Comprehensive_school" title="Comprehensive school">comprehensive</a> lines. The Roman Catholic hierarchy supported this change.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some non-Catholic voluntary aided <a href="/wiki/Grammar_school" title="Grammar school">grammar schools</a> opposed it. Local authorities could not compel voluntary aided schools to change any aspect of their admissions, but they could submit a proposal to the Minister to cease to maintain a school. This was done in cases where the local authority and school could not agree. Some of these schools became <a href="/wiki/Private_schools_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Private schools in the United Kingdom">private schools</a>:<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Former voluntary aided schools that became independent </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Local_education_authority" class="mw-redirect" title="Local education authority">LEA</a> </th> <th>Name of school </th> <th>Gender </th></tr> <tr> <td>1975 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Richmond_upon_Thames" title="London Borough of Richmond upon Thames">Richmond</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hampton_School" title="Hampton School">Hampton School</a> </td> <td>Boys </td></tr> <tr> <td>1976 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Surrey" title="Surrey">Surrey</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Reigate_Grammar_School" title="Reigate Grammar School">Reigate Grammar School</a> </td> <td>Boys (now mixed) </td></tr> <tr> <td>1977 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Inner_London_Education_Authority" title="Inner London Education Authority">Inner London</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Emanuel_School" title="Emanuel School">Emanuel School</a> </td> <td>Boys (now mixed) </td></tr> <tr> <td>1977 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Surrey" title="Surrey">Surrey</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Royal_Grammar_School,_Guildford" title="Royal Grammar School, Guildford">Royal Grammar School, Guildford</a> </td> <td>Boys </td></tr> <tr> <td>1977 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Inner_London_Education_Authority" title="Inner London Education Authority">Inner London</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Godolphin_and_Latymer_School" title="Godolphin and Latymer School">Godolphin and Latymer School</a> </td> <td>Girls </td></tr> <tr> <td>1977 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Inner_London_Education_Authority" title="Inner London Education Authority">Inner London</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Colfe%27s_Grammar_School" class="mw-redirect" title="Colfe's Grammar School">Colfe's Grammar School</a> </td> <td>Mixed </td></tr> <tr> <td>1978 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kirklees" title="Kirklees">Kirklees</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Batley_Grammar_School" title="Batley Grammar School">Batley Grammar School</a> </td> <td>Boys (now mixed) </td></tr> <tr> <td>1978 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Surrey" title="Surrey">Surrey</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sir_William_Perkins%27s_School" title="Sir William Perkins's School">Sir William Perkins's School</a> </td> <td>Girls </td></tr> <tr> <td>1979 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wolverhampton" title="Wolverhampton">Wolverhampton</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wolverhampton_Grammar_School" title="Wolverhampton Grammar School">Wolverhampton Grammar School</a> </td> <td>Boys (now mixed) </td></tr> <tr> <td>1979 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lancashire" title="Lancashire">Lancashire</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kirkham_Grammar_School" title="Kirkham Grammar School">Kirkham Grammar School</a> </td> <td>Mixed </td></tr> <tr> <td>1979 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hampshire" title="Hampshire">Hampshire</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/King_Edward_VI_School,_Southampton" title="King Edward VI School, Southampton">King Edward VI School</a> </td> <td>Boys (now mixed) </td></tr> <tr> <td>1979 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hampshire" title="Hampshire">Hampshire</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Churcher%27s_College" title="Churcher's College">Churcher's College</a> </td> <td>Boys (now mixed) </td></tr> <tr> <td>1983 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cambridgeshire" title="Cambridgeshire">Cambridgeshire</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wisbech_Grammar_School" title="Wisbech Grammar School">Wisbech Grammar School</a> </td> <td>Mixed </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Direct grant status was abolished at the same time and over 40 such schools, almost all Roman Catholic, converted to voluntary aided status.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many voluntary aided schools converted to <a href="/wiki/Grant-maintained_school" title="Grant-maintained school">grant-maintained</a> status in the late 1980s, generally reverting to voluntary aided status when grant-maintained status was abolished in 1998. A few formerly independent faith schools that had become grant-maintained in the early 1990s also converted to voluntary aided status at that time.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By 2008, within the maintained sector in England, approximately 22% of primary schools and 17% of secondary schools were voluntary aided, including all of the Roman Catholic schools and the schools of non-Christian faiths. Almost all voluntary aided primary schools and 93% of voluntary aided secondary schools were linked to a religious body, usually either the Church of England or the Catholic Church, with a minority of other faiths.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In November 2012, the interpretation of the <a href="/wiki/Education_Act_2011" title="Education Act 2011">Education Act 2011</a>, which appeared to prioritise the creation of <a href="/wiki/Academy_(English_school)" title="Academy (English school)">academies</a> over maintained schools, was tested by a <a href="/wiki/Judicial_review_in_English_law" title="Judicial review in English law">judicial review</a>, which upheld the decision of the <a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Richmond_upon_Thames" title="London Borough of Richmond upon Thames">London Borough of Richmond upon Thames</a> to establish voluntary aided schools, <a href="/wiki/St_Richard_Reynolds_Catholic_College" title="St Richard Reynolds Catholic College">St Richard Reynolds Catholic College</a>, without first seeking proposals for an academy.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Voluntary_aided_school&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Voluntary_controlled_school" title="Voluntary controlled school">Voluntary controlled school</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State-funded_schools_(England)" title="State-funded schools (England)">State-funded schools (England)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Education_in_Wales" title="Education in Wales">Education in Wales</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Public_education_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Category:Public education in the United Kingdom">Public education in the United Kingdom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charter_school" title="Charter school">Charter school</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Education_Act_1902" title="Education Act 1902">Education Act 1902</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Voluntary_aided_school&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output 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Vol 5</i></a>. pp. 139–210.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=History+of+the+English+People+in+the+19th+Century%3A+Imperialism+%26+Rise+of+Labour.+Vol+5&rft.pages=139-210&rft.date=1951&rft.au=Halevy%2C+Elie&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D_FGEYgEACAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVoluntary+aided+school" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHalevy,_Elie1952" class="citation book cs1">Halevy, Elie (1952). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=szyKYgEACAAJ"><i>History of the English People in the 19th Century: Rule of Democracy 1905-1914. Book 1. Vol 6</i></a>. pp. 64–93.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=History+of+the+English+People+in+the+19th+Century%3A+Rule+of+Democracy+1905-1914.+Book+1.+Vol+6&rft.pages=64-93&rft.date=1952&rft.au=Halevy%2C+Elie&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DszyKYgEACAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AVoluntary+aided+school" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul>    </div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1&useformat=desktop" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; position: absolute;"></noscript> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Voluntary_aided_school&oldid=1255123188">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Voluntary_aided_school&oldid=1255123188</a>"</div></div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="/wiki/Help:Category" title="Help:Category">Categories</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Voluntary_aided_schools" title="Category:Voluntary aided schools">Voluntary aided schools</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:State_schools_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Category:State schools in the United Kingdom">State schools in the United Kingdom</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:School_types" title="Category:School types">School types</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Education_in_England" title="Category:Education in England">Education in England</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Education_in_Wales" title="Category:Education in Wales">Education in Wales</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Education_finance_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Category:Education finance in the United Kingdom">Education finance in the United Kingdom</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Public_education_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Category:Public education in the United Kingdom">Public education in the United Kingdom</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Schools_in_England" title="Category:Schools in England">Schools in England</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Schools_in_Wales" title="Category:Schools in Wales">Schools in Wales</a></li></ul></div><div id="mw-hidden-catlinks" class="mw-hidden-catlinks mw-hidden-cats-hidden">Hidden categories: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Articles_with_short_description" title="Category:Articles with short description">Articles with short description</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Short_description_matches_Wikidata" title="Category:Short description matches Wikidata">Short description matches Wikidata</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Use_dmy_dates_from_October_2021" title="Category:Use dmy dates from October 2021">Use dmy dates from October 2021</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Articles_containing_traditional_Chinese-language_text" title="Category:Articles containing traditional Chinese-language text">Articles containing traditional Chinese-language text</a></li></ul></div></div> </div> </main> </div> <div class="mw-footer-container"> <footer id="footer" class="mw-footer" > <ul id="footer-info"> <li id="footer-info-lastmod"> This page was last edited on 3 November 2024, at 07:45<span class="anonymous-show"> (UTC)</span>.</li> <li id="footer-info-copyright">Text is available under the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_4.0_International_License" title="Wikipedia:Text of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License</a>; additional terms may apply. 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