Basic education is a national quality education for all students. Its fundamental purpose is to improve the quality of the whole nation and lay a solid foundation for all school-age children and adolescents to study for life and participate in social life.

Basic education plays an overall, basic and leading role in improving the quality of the Chinese nation, cultivating talents at all levels and promoting socialist modernization. Over the years, the state has insisted on the moderately advanced development of education, giving priority to the development of basic education, and ensuring it as a key area of infrastructure and education development. ?

In China, basic education includes preschool education (generally 3 to 5 years old), compulsory education (generally 6 to 15 years old), high school education (generally 16 to 19 years old) and literacy education. It covers compulsory education in primary schools and junior high schools, and has the characteristics of universality, publicity and compulsion.

Basic education is a dynamic concept. In fact, China's basic education refers to all forms of education before junior high school (including junior high school). In a narrow sense, it refers to nine-year compulsory education. In a broad sense, it should also include family education (English tutor) and necessary social life knowledge education.

Educational purpose

The purpose of education is to cultivate people's intellectual, moral and cultural qualities and contribute to the progress of individuals and society. Education is a long-term process, and its goal is to improve students' knowledge level, skills and values, so that they can play a better role in their future lives.

First, the purpose of education is to cultivate people's intelligence. The education system aims to improve students' cognitive ability, thinking ability and problem-solving ability. School education is not only to impart knowledge, but also to cultivate students' thinking ability and creative thinking, so that they can better adapt to future challenges.

Secondly, the purpose of education is to cultivate people's morality. Education is not only to let people acquire knowledge and skills, but more importantly, to teach people how to become better people. School education should help students cultivate healthy moral quality and sense of social responsibility and become useful members of society by teaching morality, ethics and civic responsibility.