The economic and social development of Jiangsu presents a very obvious gradient state from south to north, and correspondingly, the educational development of Jiangsu also presents a very obvious gradient state from south to north. In recent years, although Jiangsu Province has done a lot of work in the balanced development of compulsory education and achieved remarkable results, the problems are still very prominent. According to the existing research classification and category, the unbalanced development of compulsory education is mainly described by regional differences, urban-rural differences, inter-school differences and crowd differences. We use this category to describe the balanced development of compulsory education in Jiangsu. Regional differences in the development of compulsory education. Jiangsu province governs 13 big cities, which are divided into three regions from south to north: southern Jiangsu, central Jiangsu and northern Jiangsu. According to the latest division, southern Jiangsu is composed of five cities: Nanjing, Zhenjiang, Suzhou, Wuxi and Changzhou, with a population of more than 22 million and an area of about 28,000 square kilometers. Suzhong consists of Nantong, Yangzhou and Taizhou, with a population of about170,000 and an area of about 20,400 square kilometers. Northern Jiangsu consists of Xuzhou, Yancheng, Huai 'an, Suqian and Lianyungang, with a population of more than 32 million and an area of more than 52,000 square kilometers, accounting for more than half of Jiangsu's total area. The regional differences in the development of compulsory education in Jiangsu are most intuitively reflected in the educational development level of southern Jiangsu, central Jiangsu and northern Jiangsu. From the statistical data of education development in 2003-2004, it can be found that the gross enrollment rate of education in Jiangsu is not far from that in southern, central and northern Jiangsu. Since the Tenth Five-Year Plan, the total investment in higher education in Jiangsu Province has increased year by year. However, the growth of per capita funds is slow, and it is a long way to go to form a diversified financing pattern. The funding standard of "comprehensive quota plus special subsidy" leads to blind enrollment expansion in some colleges and universities, which has no advantage compared with other provinces and cities. Jiangsu should further improve the growth mechanism of investment in higher education, guide and encourage the society to invest in higher education, reform the government funding system and methods, improve the efficiency of the use of education funds, and promote the healthy development of higher education.