Legal basis: Compulsory Education Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).
Article 2 The State implements a nine-year compulsory education system.
Compulsory education is a compulsory education for all school-age children and adolescents and a public welfare undertaking that the state must guarantee.
The implementation of compulsory education, free of tuition and fees.
The state establishes a mechanism to guarantee the funds for compulsory education to ensure the implementation of the compulsory education system.
Article 3 Compulsory education must implement the national education policy, implement quality education, improve the quality of education, enable school-age children and adolescents to develop in an all-round way in morality, intelligence and physique, and lay a foundation for cultivating socialist builders and successors with ideals, morality, culture and discipline.