The current nine-year compulsory education in China. Including primary school and junior high school. High school is not compulsory education. With the development of economy and the improvement of people's living standards, China will also list senior high school as the scope of compulsory education.

Nine-year compulsory education is from primary school to junior high school, so its tuition fee is different from that of middle school, vocational school, technical school and senior high school. However, it is said that 12 compulsory education will be implemented in the future, and high schools will also be included then. Compulsory education in China has always been a nine-year system, which has lasted for decades. Although we have been working hard to popularize twelve-year compulsory education, it has not been successfully achieved yet.