Core literacy refers to the essential character and key ability that students should have to meet the needs of lifelong development and social development. It emphasizes personal cultivation, social care and feelings of home and country, and pays more attention to independent development, cooperative participation and innovative practice.

Core literacy is an essential character and key ability that students gradually form to meet the needs of personal lifelong development and social development in the process of receiving education in the corresponding period. It is the synthesis of students' knowledge, skills, emotions, attitudes and values. It points to the process and pays attention to students' understanding in the training process, rather than being result-oriented.