The state encourages education. People's governments at all levels should improve their systems and policies, encourage and attract social funds to enter the field of education to hold schools or invest in project construction. Education is the foundation of socialist modernization, which is of decisive significance for improving people's comprehensive quality, promoting people's all-round development, enhancing the innovation and creativity of the Chinese nation and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The state guarantees education priority.

People's Republic of China (PRC) Private Education Promotion Law Article 3 Private education is a public welfare undertaking and an integral part of socialist education. The state implements the policy of active encouragement, strong support, correct guidance and management according to law for private education. People's governments at all levels should incorporate private education into the national economic and social development plan. Article 4 Private schools shall abide by laws and regulations, implement the national education policy, ensure the quality of education, and devote themselves to cultivating all kinds of talents for socialist construction. Private schools should implement the principle of separating education from religion. No organization or individual may use religion to carry out activities that hinder the national education system.