A: Generally speaking, educational equity is of great significance for achieving educational goals, ensuring the normal operation of education and promoting the all-round development of society. First of all, educational justice plays an important role in coordinating interest relations, easing social contradictions and maintaining social stability. Educational equity is an important part of social equity and one of the means to realize social equity. On the one hand, unfair education will not only directly lead to social injustice, but also trigger various social contradictions and conflicts, endangering social stability; On the other hand, educational justice can provide the disadvantaged groups with opportunities for interest compensation, fair competition and upward development, improve the living environment and state of the socially disadvantaged groups, and eliminate social injustice, thus balancing social relations and maintaining social justice. Secondly, educational equity is the foundation of building a harmonious society. Building a harmonious society has become the theme of social development in China. In essence, a harmonious society should be an equal society, a people-oriented society, and every member of society can enjoy rights equally and fully develop himself. It can be said that the key to building a harmonious society is to establish a fair distribution mechanism of civil rights and realize the all-round development of people. The most fundamental problem of human development is education.