To put it simply, the national textbook is a general textbook compiled by the Ministry of Education and used by primary and secondary schools all over the country, while the People's Education Edition textbook is a textbook published by People's Education Publishing House.

Some current textbooks, such as the standard edition of teaching courses, the outline edition of people's education edition, the national standard edition of Soviet education edition, and the Beijing Normal University edition, are all written according to the subject curriculum standards, and the general content is the same, but the order, difficulty and logical system of each chapter are different.