General higher education belongs to unified recruitment, which mainly refers to full-time general doctoral students, full-time and part-time general master students, full-time second bachelor's degree, full-time undergraduate and full-time junior college. At present, the educational institutions that implement general higher education in China include general full-time undergraduate courses (universities, junior colleges and independent colleges) and general full-time junior colleges (junior colleges, higher vocational colleges, junior colleges, higher vocational colleges, vocational colleges, vocational colleges and vocational colleges). Extended information general education is a concept corresponding to adult education, and the difference between them mainly lies in the difference of educational objects and learning forms. The object of general education is mainly teenagers in the growing stage, and it adopts full-time teaching form; As the name implies, the object of adult education is adults, and part-time teaching is generally implemented.
The task of general education is usually undertaken by schools that implement general education (called general education schools). General education schools are divided into general basic education schools, vocational education schools and general higher (secondary specialized) schools, all of which implement full-time teaching. General basic education is divided into preschool education, primary education, junior high school education and senior high school education, including special education for disabled children, teenagers and young people and work-study education for extraordinary students; General vocational education includes general vocational middle school, technical education, secondary vocational education and higher vocational education (higher vocational education is sometimes included in general higher education). General higher (secondary specialized) education refers to the professional education that mainly recruits high school (junior high school) graduates for full-time study, which is relative to the adult higher education forms such as correspondence, evening university and open university that recruit on-the-job employees for part-time study.