Education is related to the prosperity of the nation, the well-being of the people and the future of the country, and educational equity is an important foundation of social equity. Promoting education equity and letting all children share the same blue sky is the ardent expectation of hundreds of millions of families, an inevitable requirement for running a satisfactory education for the people, and an important embodiment for all people to share the fruits of reform and development.

●? Why is the issue of educational equity concerned by the society?

Since the founding of New China, especially in the past 30 years of reform and opening up, great achievements have been made in education. We have organized the largest education in the world and basically formed a socialist education system with China characteristics. Free and compulsory education in urban and rural areas has been fully realized, and the gross enrollment rate of high school education has increased from 1949 to 79.2%; The rapid development of vocational education has significantly improved the structure and quality of the new labor force; The scale of higher education ranks first in the world, with a gross enrollment rate of 24.2%, which has entered the stage of popularization. The people's education level has improved significantly, and the average educational years of the population above 15 have increased from 1949 to10.6 years to 8.7 years. The development of education has guaranteed the broad masses of people's right to education, improved the quality of the whole nation and made great contributions to economic development and social progress. ?

At the same time, we should also see that the current educational reform and development is not compatible with the economic and social development and the requirements and expectations of the people, especially the issue of educational equity is still very prominent. According to a survey at the end of 2009, 56.5% people think that there is unfair education. This reflects people's great concern about educational equity.

At present, people's strongest response to the issue of educational equity is that there are great differences in the opportunities, levels and quality of receiving education, especially quality education. This difference is manifested between regions, between urban and rural areas, between schools and between different social groups. Some phenomena in real life will make us feel this intuitively and personally.