It attaches importance to people's ideological and moral quality, ability training, personality development, physical health and mental health education. Quality education and exam-oriented education are corresponding, but they are not absolutely opposite concepts, because they are not antonyms in meaning.

Since China's reform and opening up, the party and the state have always regarded improving the quality of the whole nation as a fundamental task related to the overall situation of socialist modernization.

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Quality education aims at improving people's basic quality in an all-round way, respects people's subjectivity and initiative, takes people's personality as the basis, and pays attention to developing people's wisdom potential.

Attach importance to education characterized by the formation of a sound personality. Quality-oriented education is the practical need of social development, aiming at making people correctly face and deal with all things and phenomena in their social environment.

At the beginning of the new century, knowledge economy has emerged, and the competition between science and technology and economy, especially talents, is becoming increasingly fierce around the world. The strength of national strength depends more and more on the quality of workers.

Education depends on the quality and quantity of all kinds of talents, which is in the basic position in the formation of comprehensive national strength and bears the heavy responsibility of cultivating high-quality talents. Jiang Zemin said: "The rise and fall of the national movement depends on education, and the revitalization of education is the responsibility of the whole people."