First, compulsory education has entered a new stage of comprehensive popularization and consolidation, and the level of basic education has been comprehensively improved. Since the National People's Congress promulgated the Compulsory Education Law in 1986, after more than ten years' struggle, by 2000, China had achieved the goal of basically popularizing nine-year compulsory education and basically eliminating illiteracy among young people. The population coverage rate of "two basics" exceeded 85%, which was further expanded to 99% in 2007.

Ordinary senior high schools, preschool education and special education have also developed rapidly. The enrollment rate of primary school-age children has increased from 94% to 99.5%; Junior high school enrollment rate reached 98%; The enrollment rate of high school education has increased from less than 10% to 66%; Pre-school education started very low, reaching 44.6%.

2. Since the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the focus of education system reform has been to promote education equity, put forward and implement Scientific Outlook on Development, and promote the construction of a harmonious socialist society. The 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China made new arrangements for giving priority to the development of education and building a powerful country with human resources, and made clear the strategic thinking of deepening education reform. First, pay more attention to promoting educational equity.

The state has increased its support for rural education, especially rural education in western China, through transfer payments, special projects and preferential policies. In 2007, 654.38+0.5 billion students in rural compulsory education were all exempted from tuition and fees and provided with textbooks free of charge, and 7.8 million poor boarders received living allowances, which became an important milestone in the history of education development in China.