Compulsory education is a universal, compulsory and free school education for all school-age children and adolescents according to law. It is the basis of improving national quality and the starting point of realizing social equity. Receiving compulsory education is the basic right of citizens, and the implementation of compulsory education has always been the top priority of China's educational reform and development.

At the beginning of this century, China achieved the goal of popularizing nine-year compulsory education, and first solved the problem of "education" for school-age children and adolescents according to law. After compulsory education is fully popularized and free, the state clearly regards the balanced development of compulsory education as the top priority of compulsory education, and strives to achieve the goal of "good study" for all school-age children and adolescents.

Extended data

Promoting educational equity is reflected in three aspects: equal educational opportunities, equal teaching process and fair educational results. The balanced development of compulsory education is mainly reflected in the equality of teaching process. The balanced development of compulsory education is the requirement of the essential attribute of compulsory education, the statutory duty of government public service, and an important measure to promote educational equity and build a harmonious socialist society, which will provide a more relaxed environment for the full implementation of quality education.

The balanced development of compulsory education is based on the balanced development of schools, because schools are the basic implementation institutions of education and teaching. The ultimate goal of balanced development of compulsory education is to rationally allocate educational resources, run every school well and teach every student well.