Therefore, a more accurate classification is to divide China's national education system into two types according to the types of institutions: general education and adult education. The main difference lies in the object of education and the nature of education: the former is pre-service education for the younger generation, while the latter is post-service education for adults who have entered the professional society.
The school system in China is divided into two kinds of education systems, namely, general education institutions and adult education institutions. However, the two types of education overlap: ordinary colleges and universities also hold various types of adult education, such as adult education colleges or continuing education colleges and adult higher education, and adult colleges and universities also recruit young students; Statistically, the adult education college or continuing education college, evening school and correspondence department of ordinary colleges and universities are merged into adult colleges and universities.