Generally speaking, educational equity is of great significance for achieving educational goals, ensuring the normal operation of education and promoting the all-round development of society. First of all, educational equity plays an important role in coordinating interests, easing social contradictions and maintaining social stability. Educational equity is an important part of social equity and one of the means to realize social equity. On the one hand, unfair education will not only directly lead to social injustice, but also trigger various social contradictions and conflicts, endangering social stability; On the other hand, educational equity can provide benefits compensation and fair competition for vulnerable groups.

Opportunities for upward development, improve the living environment and state of social vulnerable groups, eliminate social injustice, thus balancing social relations and maintaining social equity. Secondly, educational equity is the foundation of building a harmonious society. Building a harmonious society has become the theme of social development in China. In essence, a harmonious society should be an equal society and a people-oriented society. Every member of society can enjoy equal rights and fully develop themselves. It can be said that the key to building a harmonious society is to establish a fair civil rights allocation mechanism and realize the all-round development of people.

The most fundamental problem of human development is education, and fairness and justice are historical. Fairness and justice is an ever-developing historical category. Under different historical conditions, people have different understandings of fairness and justice, and there is no constant scale of fairness and justice. We believe that the phenomenon of "injustice" may appear as "justice" in history; Today, what we think of as "fairness" may gradually evolve into "unfairness" with the development of history. Marx once pointed out that the concept of fairness in Greece and Rome holds that slavery is fair, and the concept of fairness varies not only from place to place, but also from person to person.

Therefore, we should discuss fairness and justice under certain historical conditions and environment. Fairness and justice are concrete. It includes the moral qualities and requirements of philosophy, social politics, culture, law, ethics and many other aspects, including the ideas and thoughts of fairness, justice and equality. These concepts are interdependent, but they can't be completely equivalent and can't replace each other. For example, in the economic field, fairness and justice mainly refer to the equality embodied in the principle of equal exchange in the market economy, which is usually called equal opportunity and fair competition.