Special education schools are compulsory education institutions for disabled children and adolescents organized by the government, enterprises and institutions, social organizations, other social organizations and individual citizens according to law.

On 2002 1 March1day, the Ministry of Education released the main results of the national education statistics in 2020: in 2020, there were 2,244 national special education schools. There are 6,543,800+049,000 special education students and 880,800 students. There are 66,200 full-time teachers in special education schools.