Basic education is a national quality education for all students. Its fundamental purpose is to improve the quality of the whole nation and lay a solid foundation for all school-age children and adolescents to study for life and participate in social life. Basic education plays an overall, basic and leading role in improving the quality of the Chinese nation, cultivating talents at all levels and promoting socialist modernization.

Basic introduction

Basic education is a dynamic concept. At present, the de facto basic education in China refers to all forms of education before junior high school. In a narrow sense, it refers to nine-year compulsory education. In a broad sense, it should also include family education and necessary social life knowledge education. Some people classify high school education as basic education, but this type of education has not been popularized in China at present, so in fact, high school education is not basic education.

General situation of development

1. Basic education in China includes preschool education, primary education and general secondary education (junior high school and senior high school). Before 1949, the basic education in China was very weak. In the year with the highest educational development, there were only 1300 kindergartens, 289,000 primary schools and 4,266 middle schools in China. 1949 after the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), the central and local governments at all levels attached great importance to the development of basic education and invested a lot of manpower and financial resources to popularize education.

2. Since the reform and opening up from 65438 to 0978, China's basic education has entered a new period of development. 1985 the decision on the reform of education system issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China put forward the principle of "local responsibility for basic education and hierarchical management", which greatly mobilized the enthusiasm of local governments at all levels, especially county and township governments.

value assessment

The so-called independent value of basic education means that basic education has its own independent value in the whole education system and is not attached to other types and levels of education. Establishing such basic education values is a very important conceptual basis for promoting the transformation of basic education from "exam-oriented education" to "quality education".