First, people's needs and expectations. Education is related to the vital interests of thousands of families, future generations and the people. Proceeding from ensuring people's equal right to education, it is proposed to further consolidate and improve the level of popularizing nine-year compulsory education, with the consolidation rate of nine-year compulsory education reaching 95%. The gap between urban and rural areas, regions and schools has been further narrowed, and the proportion of counties (autonomous regions and municipalities) with basically balanced compulsory education has reached 95%, and a more balanced basic public education service system covering urban and rural areas has been established; Complete the task of poverty alleviation through education, achieve full coverage of financial aid for students with financial difficulties in families, and better protect the equal right of disadvantaged groups to education. Starting from the people's demand for high-quality education, it is clear that the quality of teachers has been further improved, the conditions for running schools have been significantly improved, important progress has been made in education and teaching reform, students' academic level and autonomous learning and lifelong learning ability have been comprehensively improved, and the people's high-quality, personalized and diversified learning needs have been better met. In order to meet the people's needs for lifelong learning, it is proposed that the opportunities for preschool education will be greatly increased, and the gross enrollment rate will reach 85% in the three years before school. Popularize high school education, with a gross enrollment rate of 90%; The development of higher education has entered the stage of popularization, the gross enrollment rate has reached 50%, and the people's sense of education acquisition has been continuously enhanced. These goals are in line with the people's expectations and the basic national conditions that China will remain in the primary stage of socialism for a long time.

Second, the urgent need of national economic and social development. The 13th Five-Year Plan is a crucial period for China's economic transformation and upgrading. There is an urgent need for education to train all kinds of talents and high-quality workers for the society, and it also requires education to make greater achievements in innovation and development. In response to these requirements, in terms of personnel training, the plan proposes that students' ideological and moral qualities, scientific and cultural qualities, and physical and mental health qualities have been significantly improved, and their sense of social responsibility, awareness of the rule of law, innovative spirit and practical ability have been significantly enhanced; The proportion of innovative, compound, applied and skilled talents has increased significantly, and the talent training structure is more reasonable; The ability of all kinds of talents to serve the economic and social development of countries and regions and participate in international competition has been significantly enhanced. At the same time, in view of the low quality of workers in our country, we have also put forward some specific goals, such as the average years of education of the newly-added labor force reaching 13.5 years, the participation rate of continuing education significantly increasing, the number of employees continuing education reaching 350 million, and the construction of a learning society reaching a new level. In terms of improving the innovative service ability of universities, it is proposed that several universities and disciplines enter the world-class ranks, and several disciplines enter the forefront of world-class disciplines. Universities should build a number of innovative bases and new think tanks to serve the national strategy, and a number of major innovations have emerged.

Third, the long-term needs of national modernization and education modernization. Based on the 13th Five-Year Plan, the Plan aims to build a prosperous, strong, democratic, civilized and harmonious socialist modern country in the middle of this century and realize the second centenary goal of the Chinese nation's great rejuvenation of the Chinese dream, and puts forward the goals of system construction and educational informatization, with a view to laying a solid foundation for the development of educational modernization and the future national modernization. In terms of education system, the plan puts forward the goal of forming a modern education system more suitable for all-people learning and lifelong learning and perfecting the modern vocational education system. In the aspect of education system, the goal of improving the basic education system and improving the modernization level of education governance system and governance capacity is put forward. In the aspect of educational informatization, the goal of forming a new situation of integration and innovation of information technology and education and obviously enhancing the convenience and flexibility of learning has been clarified.