In the early days of the founding of New China, labor education was generally characterized by "political leadership", and after the reform and opening up, it was characterized by "economic guidance". In the new period of China's special socialist construction, labor education has been "comprehensively expanded", based on the modern education system with all-round development of morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor, which has both political and economic functions and shoulders the dual tasks of meeting social needs and human needs.

In the early days of the founding of New China, the education policy mainly focused on students' physical labor education. The specific educational policy is stated as: "Education must serve proletarian politics, and education must be combined with productive labor, so that the educated can develop morally, intellectually and physically in an all-round way and become educated workers with socialist consciousness".

It is clearly required here that education must be combined with productive labor. On the whole, the educational policy in this period was comprehensive in content composition, which laid the foundation for the evolution of educational policy later.

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