Legal basis: Compulsory Education Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).
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.
Article 6 the State Council and local people's governments at or above the county level shall rationally allocate educational resources, promote the balanced development of compulsory education, improve the conditions for running weak schools, take measures to ensure the implementation of compulsory education in rural areas and ethnic minority areas, and ensure that school-age disabled children and adolescents with financial difficulties receive compulsory education.
The state organizes and encourages economically developed areas to support economically underdeveloped areas in implementing compulsory education.