Strengthening preschool education and its connection with primary education. The policy of "double reduction" is to reform the modern education system, advance the school age and extend the period of compulsory education. According to the law, all school-age children and adolescents must receive national education, which must be provided and guaranteed by the family and the state. Its characteristics are mandatory, free and universal.

General education and vocational education are developing in a comprehensive and unified direction. General education mainly focuses on imparting scientific and cultural knowledge, while vocational education mainly focuses on technical learning. The two should be combined and complement each other.

The types of higher education are increasingly diversified. Lifelong education is widely valued. At present, China's education levels are divided into junior college, undergraduate course, graduate student and doctor, which are open to on-the-job personnel and attach great importance to the construction of "double first-class" colleges. Constructing lifelong education system, lifelong education is the concept and trend of future education development and the foundation of building a learning society.

Theoretical circles have not reached a complete consensus on the institutional characteristics and connotation of "modern school system". Common opinions come from two different logics: first, the school governance concept arising from the expansion of economic attributes such as educational resources, emphasizing property rights, independent management and board system, and emphasizing the relationship between schools and the government and the market. The other is the governance problems arising from the cultivation of people's educational attributes in schools, which emphasize internal management systems such as school-based management and people-oriented management, and attach importance to the relationship between schools and the government, communities, students and parents.