On August 28th, Minister of Education Chen Baosheng was entrusted by the State Council to report to the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) on promoting the integrated development of urban and rural compulsory education and improving the level of rural compulsory education. He introduced that China has made great efforts to break down the dual structure barriers between urban and rural areas by formulating unified standards for school construction, implementing unified standards for teacher preparation, realizing unified standards for public funds per student and improving unified standards for the allocation of basic equipment in schools.

The State Council's Report on Promoting the Integration of Urban and Rural Compulsory Education and Improving the Level of Rural Compulsory Education points out that in 2008, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and other departments merged and revised the Standards for the Construction of Urban Ordinary Primary and Secondary Schools and the Standards for the Construction of Rural Ordinary Primary and Secondary Schools, and unified them into the standards for the construction of ordinary primary and secondary schools, striving to eliminate the gap between urban and rural schools and improve the level of rural school construction. At present, the consultation work has been completed.

In terms of teacher staffing standards, the Central Organizing Committee and the Ministry of Education raised the staffing standards of rural primary and secondary schools to urban standards, approved the staffing according to the teacher-student ratio of primary schools 1: 19 and junior high schools 1: 13.5, and made it clear that the staffing of rural small-scale schools was approved according to the combination of teacher-student ratio and class-teacher ratio, and appropriately increased the staffing of boarding schools. According to the actual situation of teachers, primary schools in 25 provinces and junior high schools in 24 provinces have reached a unified standard.

According to the report, China has established a funding guarantee mechanism for compulsory education that integrates urban and rural areas, focusing on rural areas, and defined the standard of public funding per student. In addition, the Ministry of Education issued opinions on how to do a good job of equipment in ordinary primary and secondary schools, improved the standard system of equipment allocation in primary and secondary schools that matched the national curriculum standards, and initiated the revision of equipment allocation standards in primary and secondary schools. In 20 18, it is planned to introduce the equipment configuration standards and about 30 quality standards for primary school mathematics, junior high school mathematics, physics, chemistry and geography.