Legal basis: Education Law of the People's Republic of China
Article 11 The state adapts to the needs of the development of socialist market economy and social progress, promotes educational reform, promotes the coordinated development and convergence of all kinds of education at all levels, improves the modern national education system, improves the lifelong education system and improves the level of educational modernization. The state takes measures to promote educational equity and balanced development of education. The state supports, encourages and organizes educational scientific research, popularizes the achievements of educational scientific research and promotes the improvement of educational quality.
Article 12 The national spoken and written language is the basic education and teaching language of schools and other educational institutions, and schools and other educational institutions shall use the national spoken and written language for education and teaching. Schools and other educational institutions in ethnic autonomous areas, which are dominated by minority students, should proceed from reality and use the spoken and written languages commonly used by the country and the spoken and written languages commonly used by their own nationalities or local nationalities for bilingual education. The state takes measures to provide conditions and support for bilingual education in schools and other educational institutions with ethnic minority students as the mainstay.