Article 17 of the Education Law of the People's Republic of China (Chapter II Basic Education System) The current school education system is basically the fourth grade and the seventh grade, with a complete system of direct and collateral lines, which communicate with each other and form a variety of school-running patterns. The fourth level refers to preschool education, primary education, secondary education and higher education, and the seventh level refers to kindergarten, primary school, junior high school, senior high school, junior college education, undergraduate education and postgraduate education.

The complete branches and collateral departments communicate with each other, which means that the system of general education, vocational and technical education and adult education in China is perfect, which not only constitutes a vertical upgrading series, but also enables the three kinds of education to communicate horizontally. In the past ten years, a pattern of coexistence of public, private and public private forms has been formed. 1986, the government of China proposed to implement nine-year compulsory education for the first time, which provided legal guarantee for improving citizens' quality.

The main functions of education are:

(1) The primary function of education is to promote individual development, including individual socialization and individualization.

(2) The most basic function of education is to influence the change of social talent system and economic development. Modern society emphasizes that the economic function of education mainly includes: providing a good background for the sustained and stable development of the economy; Improve the potential labor ability of the educated; Form ideas, attitudes and behaviors that adapt to modern economic life.

(3) The social function of education is to cultivate talents for the development of the country and serve the political and economic development of the country.

(4) The most far-reaching function of education is to influence the development of culture. Education should not only convey culture, but also meet the requirements of the continuation and renewal of culture itself.