Higher education trains senior professionals.

Secondary education cultivates technical talents.

Higher education: The history of higher education can be traced back to universities in the Middle Ages. Later, after development, mainly the continuous transformation of universities in Britain, Germany and the United States, three major functions of higher education were formed, namely, training specialized talents, scientific research and serving the society.

Secondary education: secondary general education and secondary professional education that continue to be implemented on the basis of primary education. All kinds of schools that implement secondary education are secondary schools, and general secondary schools are its main part, shouldering the dual tasks of conveying qualified freshmen for higher schools and cultivating labor reserve forces for national construction. Secondary specialized schools, including secondary technical schools and secondary normal schools, undertake the task of training secondary specialized technical personnel for all sectors of the national economy.