At present, the length of nine-year compulsory education in China is three years in the sixth year of primary school, or four or nine years in the fifth year of primary school, and various forms coexist.

Compulsory education is an education that all school-age children and adolescents must receive under the unified implementation of the state, and it is a public welfare undertaking that the state must guarantee.

Its essence is a system of compulsory education for school-age children and adolescents for a certain period of time in accordance with the provisions of the law. Compulsory education is also called compulsory education and free compulsory education. Compulsory education has the basic characteristics of compulsory, free, universal and secular.

During the Republic of China, it was generally believed that the illiteracy rate was 80%. For example, Chairman Mao put forward in his report 1945 "On Coalition Government": "It is an important task for the new China to eliminate illiteracy among 80% of the population." Just after the founding of New China, the central leadership has reached the education level of developed countries in one step, which reflects the firm belief that no matter how poor the country is, it cannot be poor in education.

In 20 16 years, there were 78,000 ordinary primary schools, 52,000 junior high schools, 99130,000 primary school students and 43.294 million junior high school students in the compulsory education stage.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia _ Compulsory Education