China's nine-year compulsory education system is divided into six years in primary school and three years in junior high school, or five years in primary school and four years in junior high school, the May 4th system and the nine-year system, and the kindergarten, primary school and junior high school system. According to the actual situation, all localities flexibly adopt different forms of educational system.

Compulsory education is a compulsory education for all school-age children and adolescents and a public welfare undertaking that the state must guarantee. Its essence is a system of compulsory education for school-age children and adolescents for a certain period of time in accordance with the provisions of the law. Compulsory education is also called compulsory education and free compulsory education. Compulsory education has the basic characteristics of compulsory, free, universal and secular.

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Nine-year compulsory education