Education is the foundation of people's livelihood. In 1950s, the new China quickly completed the "resolute transformation" of the old China education system, which guaranteed the basic rights of the broad masses of people to receive education. After the reform and opening up, the state has established the strategy of giving priority to education and strengthening the country with talents, and has taken a series of powerful measures.

China's education system has been maturing by adhering to the Party's leadership and promoting education equity, improving the regular school education system and building a lifelong learning mechanism in parallel, adhering to the organic combination of government leadership and social forces, and effectively protecting the rights of members of society to receive education. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, relevant policies have been further improved, which has not only made great progress in education, but also laid a solid foundation for the development of people's livelihood.

The illiteracy rate in China has dropped from 80% at the beginning of the founding of New China to about 5% at present, and higher education is moving from popularization to popularization. The average educational years of the working-age population have reached 13 years or more, both exceeding the average level of middle-and high-income countries.

The meaning of people's livelihood:

Chinese words have various meanings and are mostly used to refer to people's lives. People's livelihood in the modern sense can be divided into broad sense and narrow sense. People's livelihood in a broad sense refers to everything related to people's livelihood, including things directly related and indirectly related, which belong to people's livelihood category. The advantage of this concept is that it fully emphasizes the high importance and comprehensiveness of people's livelihood issues, but the disadvantage is that the scope of the concept is too large.

People's livelihood in a narrow sense mainly focuses on the social level. From this perspective, the so-called people's livelihood mainly refers to people's basic living and living conditions, as well as people's basic development opportunities, basic development capabilities and basic rights and interests protection.