2. Compulsory education must implement the national education policy, implement quality education, improve the quality of education, make school-age children and adolescents develop in an all-round way in morality, intelligence and physical education, and lay the foundation for cultivating socialist builders and successors with ideals, morality, culture and discipline.
3. All school-age children and adolescents with People's Republic of China (PRC) nationality, regardless of gender, nationality, race, family property status, religious beliefs, etc. , enjoy the equal right to receive compulsory education and fulfill the obligation to receive compulsory education according to law.
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Universal education, compulsory education and free education are the essential characteristics of compulsory education. Free steps can be implemented step by step according to the national conditions, but the characteristics of free education must be adhered to. Public welfare is the characteristic of the whole education, and compulsory education should be more thorough, not only universal compulsory education, but also free.
The new Compulsory Education Law has taken another big step in free education, adding the content of no tuition on the basis of 1986. The central government exempts rural compulsory education from miscellaneous fees for two years; In urban areas, further investigation and study are needed to make plans and speed up the process.
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