In order to develop education, the state formulates a strategic general policy or general guiding ideology at a certain stage according to the needs and possibilities of social and personal development. The content includes the nature, position, purpose and basic approach of education. Different historical periods have different educational policies.

Adhere to education to serve the socialist modernization and the people, regard moral education as the fundamental task of education, comprehensively implement quality education, train socialist builders and successors with all-round development in morality, intelligence, physique and beauty, and strive to run a satisfactory education for the people.

The main functions of education are:

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

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.

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.

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.