Kindergarten is not compulsory education. Compulsory education means six years in primary school and three years in junior high school. School-age children receiving compulsory primary education refer to children aged 6- 15.

Compulsory education is a compulsory education for all school-age children and adolescents and a public welfare undertaking that the state must guarantee.

Compulsory education must implement the national education policy, implement quality education, improve the quality of education, enable school-age children and adolescents to develop morally, intellectually and physically in an all-round way, and lay the foundation for cultivating socialist builders and successors with ideals, morality, culture and discipline.

Universal education, compulsory education and free education are the essential characteristics of compulsory education. Free steps can be implemented step by step according to the national conditions, but the characteristics of free education must be adhered to. Public welfare is the characteristic of the whole education, and compulsory education should be more thorough, not only universal compulsory education, but also free.

The new Compulsory Education Law has taken another big step in free education, adding the content of no tuition on the basis of 1986. The central government exempts rural compulsory education from miscellaneous fees for two years; In urban areas, further investigation and study are needed to make plans and speed up the process.