Coordinating urban and rural education means that urban and rural education should allocate educational resources fairly and reasonably, and the scope of balanced development is much larger than this.

Education balance, in essence, refers to the educational ideal that educational institutions and educatees are treated equally in educational activities under the control of the principle of educational equity and equality, as well as the educational policy and legal system to ensure its actual operation. Its most basic requirement is to distribute educational resources equally between educational institutions and educational groups, to achieve a relative balance between educational demand and education supply, and finally to realize the distribution and use of educational resources by people. Personally, educational balance refers to the equality of the rights and opportunities of the educated, and refers to whether students can get balanced and all-round development in moral, intellectual, physical and artistic aspects; From the school's point of view, educational balance refers to whether the allocation of educational resources is balanced among regions, urban and rural areas, schools and various types of education; From the social point of view, education balance refers to whether the total amount and structure of labor force cultivated by education are relatively balanced with the needs of economic and social development. At present, the balanced development of basic education that people pay attention to mainly refers to the balanced development of education between different regions, between urban and rural areas, between different schools in the same region, and between different groups in the same school. In other words, it mainly involves the protection of the educated's right to education, the democracy and fairness of education.