China implements nine-year compulsory education, that is, compulsory education in primary schools and junior high schools. Compulsory education system is an international practice. Due to the different economic levels of different countries, the length of compulsory education is also different.
Compulsory education in China is public welfare, unified and compulsory.
Public welfare: it is clearly stipulated that "tuition and miscellaneous fees are not charged". The notable feature of public welfare is "free". Compulsory education is a compulsory education for all school-age children and adolescents and a public welfare undertaking that the state must guarantee. The implementation of compulsory education, free of tuition and fees. The state establishes a mechanism to guarantee the funds for compulsory education to ensure the implementation of the compulsory education system.
Unity: it is an idea that runs through. The implementation of national unified compulsory education: the formulation of unified compulsory education textbooks, standards, teaching standards, funding standards, construction standards, students' public funding standards and so on.
Force: that is, force. It is the obligation of schools, parents and society to let school-age children and adolescents receive compulsory education. Whoever violates this obligation will be regulated by law. If parents don't send their students to school, they should bear the responsibility; Schools do not accept school-age children and adolescents to go to school, and schools should bear the responsibility; Schools do not provide corresponding conditions, but also are subject to legal norms.
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.