Nine-year compulsory education belongs to the basic education stage, including six-year primary education and three-year junior high school education.

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.

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Basic education in China includes preschool education, primary education and general secondary education (junior high school and senior high school). Before 1949, the basic education in China was very weak. In the year with the highest educational development, there were only 1300 kindergartens, 289,000 primary schools and 4,266 middle schools in China.

1949 after the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), the central and local governments at all levels attached great importance to the development of basic education and invested a lot of manpower and financial resources to popularize education.

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