The balanced development of compulsory education is to rationally allocate educational resources, comprehensively improve the overall quality of teachers, narrow the gap between schools, urban and rural areas and regions, run every school well and teach every student well. In other words, the compulsory education schools in the region are generally in a relatively balanced state in terms of school funding, hardware facilities, teachers' equipment, school-running level and education quality, which is compatible with the fairness, popularization and foundation of compulsory education.

Balanced development is a new concept of educational development, a new measure to solve the current educational problems in China, and an inevitable requirement to realize educational equity and build a harmonious society. Its connotation mainly includes three levels:

① Balanced development among regions;

(2) Balanced development among schools in the region;

③ For the balanced development among groups, special attention should be paid to the education of vulnerable groups at present.

Its ultimate goal is to rationally allocate educational resources, run every school well, teach every student well, and realize educational equity.