Compulsory Education Law Article 22 The people's governments at or above the county level and their education administrative departments shall promote the balanced development of schools, narrow the gap in conditions for running schools, and may not divide schools into key schools and non-key schools. Schools may not set up key classes and non-key classes. ?

The people's governments at or above the county level and their education administrative departments shall not change the nature of public schools in any name or in disguised form. ?

The scope of application is all public schools in the compulsory education stage.