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What stage does primary education refer to?
Primary education refers to the primary school stage, which is described as follows:

First, the introduction of primary education:

1. Primary education refers to the most basic part of the education system. UNESCO calls it the first-level education, which is the primary stage of school education. It has the greatest popularity and universality, and generally belongs to the compulsory education stage.

2. Primary education is the result of social, economic and cultural development in recent hundreds of years, which originated in Europe in the15th century. The implementation of the primary education system was based on the law and aimed at the whole people, which was gradually realized in the late19th century.

3. In the 20th century, with the progress of the times, primary education has made great progress in system structure, curriculum and methods, but the implementation of primary education varies from country to country.

Second, the academic system curriculum:

1. According to the relevant provisions of the Compulsory Education Law promulgated by the China Municipal Government, primary education must be popularized throughout the country. All children over the age of six must receive education at school. The period of primary education is six years, and it is generally a full-time ordinary primary school. Courses offered include ideology and morality, Chinese, mathematics, nature, history, geography, art, music, physical education and so on.

2. The development trend of primary education in the world is to pay more and more attention to the teaching of basic knowledge, improve students' basic academic ability, adapt to the phenomenon of precocious puberty of children, and advance the school age of children. Many countries have brought the senior classes of early childhood education into the scope of primary education, or allowed five-year-old children to enter school in advance.