The problem of overburdening primary and secondary school students in China has a long history. Since the 1950s, the Party and the state have successively issued a series of documents to reduce the burden on primary and secondary schools. So far, in some places and schools, the work of reducing the burden has achieved certain results, but overall, the problem of reducing the burden has not been fundamentally solved.

The government attaches importance to reducing the burden.

On March, 2065438+2003 1 1, the Ministry of Education held a forum to study and deploy the work of "reducing the burden" in the compulsory education stage, study the specific measures to deepen the work of "reducing the burden" and deploy the "journey of reducing the burden". This highlights the government's emphasis on reducing the burden on primary and secondary schools in compulsory education.

The work of reducing the burden has been going on for more than 60 years.

From 1950s to now, the work of reducing the burden has been going on for more than 60 years.

The new Compulsory Education Law stipulates that

Article 6 of the new Compulsory Education Law, which came into effect on September 1 2006, stipulates that the State Council and local people's governments at or above the county level should 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 children, adolescents and disabled children and adolescents with financial difficulties receive compulsory education.