Quality education refers to an educational model aimed at improving the quality of the educated in all aspects. It attaches importance to people's ideological and moral quality, ability training, personality development, physical health and mental health education. Quality education and exam-oriented education are corresponding, but they are not absolutely opposite concepts, because they are not antonyms in the sense.

Since China's reform and opening up, the party and the state have always regarded improving the quality of the whole nation as a fundamental task related to the overall situation of socialist modernization.

Basic education is the basic project of national quality education, which has distinct foundation, relative stability and certain times. Quality education clearly embodies the basic characteristics of basic education.