Legal basis: Compulsory Education Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).
Article 6 the State Council and local people's governments at or above the county level shall rationally allocate educational resources, promote the balanced development of compulsory education, improve the conditions for running weak schools, take measures to ensure the implementation of compulsory education in rural areas and ethnic minority areas, and ensure that school-age disabled children and adolescents with financial difficulties receive compulsory education.
The state organizes and encourages economically developed areas to support economically underdeveloped areas in implementing compulsory education.
Twelfth school-age children and adolescents are exempt from physical examination. Local people's governments at all levels shall ensure that school-age children and adolescents are enrolled in the nearest place where they are registered.
School-age children and adolescents whose parents or other legal guardians work or live in non-registered places receive compulsory education where their parents or other legal guardians work or live, and the local people's government shall provide them with equal conditions for receiving compulsory education. Specific measures shall be formulated by provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government.
The education administrative department of the people's government at the county level shall ensure that the children of military personnel within their respective administrative areas receive compulsory education.