According to the Education Law, China's education policy is: education must serve the socialist modernization, must be combined with productive labor, and cultivate builders and successors of the socialist cause with all-round development in morality, intelligence and physique. This policy mainly has the following important contents:

1. Education must serve socialist modernization, which is the general direction of education in China.

Education must be combined with productive labor. The whole educational undertaking should adapt to the requirements of national economic development, and constantly make new progress in the contents and methods of combining education with productive labor. This is an important content that cannot be ignored in education policy.

3. All-round development of morality, intelligence and physique is an important standard of education and training objectives.

4. Training builders and successors of socialist cause is the overall training goal of socialist education in China.