This system aims to ensure that every child can get basic educational opportunities and provide equal educational rights. In China, the nine-year compulsory education aims to ensure that all students can complete their primary and junior high school studies, so that they have basic literacy, scientific literacy and social adaptability.
The implementation of nine-year compulsory education will help improve the education level of the whole nation, narrow the educational gap between poor areas and rural areas and cities, and promote social equity and balanced development of human resources. It is an important foundation for the development of education, which is of great significance for improving the quality of the people and promoting social progress.
According to China's education law, compulsory education includes primary school (6 years) and junior high school (3 years), totaling 9 years. Local governments are responsible for implementing and promoting compulsory education, providing free basic education services, and investigating parents or guardians' violations of compulsory education through legal means, such as truancy and not sending students to school without reason.
The main functions of nine-year compulsory education
1. Provide equal educational opportunities: Nine-year compulsory education ensures equal educational opportunities for every child, no matter where they come from, family background and economic situation. This will help to narrow the education gap and promote social equity and equality.
2. Improve national quality: Nine-year compulsory education provides students with basic knowledge, skills and values, and helps them become citizens ready to face future challenges. Nine-year compulsory education helps to improve the national quality and comprehensive quality by learning the basic knowledge, critical thinking and problem-solving ability of various subjects.
3. Breaking the inheritance of poverty: Nine-year compulsory education provides free basic education services to help children from poor families get educational opportunities. By receiving education, they have the opportunity to break the cycle of poverty, gain more opportunities and choices, and realize their own development and social progress.
4. Promoting social development: Nine-year compulsory education has trained a large number of talents and human resources for the society and provided skills and professionals needed in various fields. This is of great significance to promoting social development and progress, economic development, innovation and social stability.
5. Cultivate civic awareness and social responsibility: Nine-year compulsory education emphasizes the cultivation of civic education and social responsibility. By studying civic morality, laws and regulations, social ethics and social problems, students are trained to become citizens with social responsibility and integrity.