1985 In May, Comrade Deng Xiaoping pointed out at the first national conference on education since the reform and opening up: "The strength of China's national strength and the potential of economic development increasingly depend on the quality of workers and the quantity and quality of intellectuals." In the same year, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China's Decision on Educational System Reform clearly pointed out: "In the whole process of educational system reform, we must firmly remember that the fundamental purpose of reform is to improve the quality of the people, produce more talents and produce good talents." This is the original ideological source of quality education.

1February, 1993 13 The Outline of Education Reform and Development in China pointed out: "Primary and secondary schools should shift from' exam-oriented education' to the track of comprehensively improving the quality of the people, comprehensively improving students' ideological and moral, cultural science, labor skills and physical and mental quality for all students, promoting students' lively development and running their own characteristics."

Comrade Jiang Zemin put forward in the report of the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China: "Insist on educational innovation, deepen educational reform, optimize educational structure, rationally allocate educational resources, improve educational quality and management level, comprehensively promote quality education, and cultivate hundreds of millions of high-quality workers, tens of millions of specialized personnel and a large number of top-notch innovative talents."