Macroscopically guide basic education; Focus on promoting nine-year compulsory education and eliminating illiteracy among young and middle-aged people; Formulate basic teaching documents and evaluation standards for basic education to guide education and teaching reform; Organize the examination and approval of teaching materials and plan the construction of teaching materials; To guide audio-visual education, books and teaching equipment in primary and secondary schools; Guide moral education in primary and secondary schools; To guide preschool education; To guide the special education of disabled children; Guide social forces to organize various schools and educational institutions oriented to basic education.

Leader of the Department of Basic Education:

Director Jiang

Gao Hong, deputy director (director level) and director of the Office of Ideological and Moral Education in Primary and Secondary Schools of the Ministry of Education.

Zhu Muju (female), deputy director, and director of the Center for the Development of Basic Education Curriculum and Textbooks of the Ministry of Education.

Deputy director Li Tianshun

Deputy Director Jin Yang

Zheng Zengyi, Deputy Inspector

Deputy inspector Wang Dinghua