Legal analysis: Guangdong implements the parallel system of nine-year compulsory education and 12 compulsory education, and Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai and Foshan try out 12 free education.

Legal basis: Article 19 of the Education Law of the People's Republic of China. The state implements a nine-year compulsory education system. People's governments at all levels take various measures to ensure that school-age children and adolescents enter school. Parents or other guardians of school-age children and adolescents, as well as relevant social organizations and individuals, have the obligation to enable school-age children and adolescents to receive and complete compulsory education for a specified number of years.