At present, primary education and junior high school education are compulsory in China. Compulsory education is compulsory for all school-age children and adolescents, and it is also a public welfare undertaking that the state must guarantee.

The essence of compulsory education 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.