The main responsibilities of the Ministry of Education

1, study and formulate educational principles and policies; Draw up a draft education law.

2. To study and put forward the education reform and development strategy and the national education development plan; To formulate policies for educational system reform, as well as the focus, structure and speed of educational development, and guide and coordinate their implementation.

3, overall management of the department's education funds; Participate in the formulation of principles and policies for raising education funds, education appropriations and education infrastructure investment; Supervise the collection and use of national education funds; To manage foreign educational aid and loans to China in accordance with relevant regulations.

4. To study and put forward the setting standards, basic teaching requirements and basic teaching documents of various schools in primary and secondary education; Organizing the examination and approval of textbooks compiled by primary and secondary schools; To guide the education and teaching reform of secondary and below secondary education; Organize the supervision and evaluation of popularizing nine-year compulsory education and eliminating illiteracy among young people.

5, overall management of general higher education, postgraduate education and higher vocational education, adult higher education, higher education organized by social forces, adult higher education self-study examination and continuing education. To study and put forward the establishment standards of institutions of higher learning, and examine the establishment, renaming, cancellation and adjustment of institutions of higher learning; Formulate the catalogue of disciplines and specialties and basic teaching documents to guide the reform of higher education and teaching and the evaluation of higher education; Responsible for the implementation and coordination of "2 1 1 project".

6. Coordinate and guide minority education, and coordinate educational assistance to minority areas.

7. To plan and guide the Party building in institutions of higher learning and the ideological and political work, moral education, physical education, health art education and national defense education in schools of all levels and types.

8. To be in charge of teachers' work throughout the country, formulate teacher qualification standards at all levels and guide their implementation; To study and put forward the standards for the establishment of schools at all levels; Coordinate the team building of school teachers and administrators.

Legal basis: Article 19 of the Constitution of People's Republic of China (PRC).

The state develops socialist education and improves the scientific and cultural level of the people throughout the country.