The eighth basic education curriculum reform in China was officially launched on 1999. From June to June 2000, the curriculum standard development group of various disciplines was established through declaration and evaluation. The functional reform of the meaning course emphasizes that the function of the course should be changed from simply paying attention to imparting knowledge to embodying and guiding students to learn to learn, learn to survive and learn to be a man.

In particular, we should emphasize the importance of cultivating students' correct values, outlook on life and world outlook, cultivating students' sense of social responsibility, striving to serve the people and guiding students to establish lofty ideals in the process of learning knowledge.

Because this process will profoundly affect students' ideological and moral formation and life choices. After more than five years of hard work, the new round of basic education curriculum reform has achieved remarkable results. The role, goal and content of reform in promoting the comprehensive implementation of quality education in the field of basic education.

BACKGROUND: For a long time, China has been adopting a unified national curriculum, and primary and secondary schools in China basically follow a teaching plan, a set of teaching syllabus and a set of teaching materials, lacking flexibility and diversity.

Since the late 1980s and early 1990s, the pace of curriculum reform has been accelerating. Starting from 1999, a new basic curriculum education system was formally proposed, and a three-level management and development system of national curriculum, local curriculum and school curriculum was tried out.