1) It is necessary to change the past concept of overemphasizing the social, economic and political functions of education and neglecting its educational functions.

2) Change the one-sided concept that basic education serves the construction of educational pyramid.

3) Change the concept that only entrance officials are talents and only entrance officials can become talents, and establish the talent view of multi-channel talents and multi-standard education.

4) Change the quality concept of seeking talents by scores and seeking benefits by enrollment rate, and establish the quality concept of all-round development of morality, intelligence and physique and all-round development of personality and specialties.

5) Change the teaching concept of being responsible for only a few students and their further education, and establish the teaching concept of being responsible for every student and their long-term development.

Quality education refers to an educational model aimed at improving the quality of the educated in all aspects. It attaches importance to people's ideological and moral quality, ability training, personality development, physical health and mental health education. Quality education and exam-oriented education are corresponding, but they are not absolutely opposite concepts, because they are not antonyms in meaning.

Since China's reform and opening up, the party and the state have always regarded improving the quality of the whole nation as a fundamental task related to the overall situation of socialist modernization.