China's national defense system actively participates in the ideological and political education of students at all levels and schools. At present, the main form of national defense education for students in schools at all levels is military training. Another important way of national defense education in schools is to organically integrate national defense education into the teaching of subject courses.

In the compulsory education stage, the teaching of many subjects except ideological and political education in high schools and universities can assume the function of "big ideological and political" national defense education.