Compulsory education is a compulsory education for all school-age children and adolescents and a public welfare undertaking that the state must guarantee. Its essence is a system of compulsory education for school-age children and adolescents for a certain period of time in accordance with the provisions of the law. Compulsory education is also called compulsory education and free compulsory education. Compulsory education has the basic characteristics of compulsory, free, universal and secular.

General characteristics

Compulsory education has the basic characteristics of compulsory, free, universal and secular.

Historical background

During the Republic of China, it was generally believed that the illiteracy rate was 80%. New China has just established new industries, but the central leadership has reached the education level of developed countries in one step, which reflects the firm belief that no matter how poor the country is, it cannot be poor in education.

Education scale

In 20 16 years, there were 78,000 ordinary primary schools, 52,000 junior high schools, 99130,000 primary school students and 43.294 million junior high school students in the compulsory education stage.

Nutrition improvement plan

2065438+200865438+A press conference was held on February 28th to introduce the progress of poverty alleviation through education. The nutrition improvement plan for rural compulsory education students has covered all state-level poverty-stricken counties, benefiting 37 million rural students, and the nutritional health status has improved significantly.