Universal education is a worldwide problem. In the process of social development, many developing countries take popularizing primary education first and developing secondary education and higher education at the same time as their main tasks; Developed countries mainly popularize secondary education while developing higher education.

(b) Basic

China's education system is generally divided into three stages: primary education, secondary education and higher education, and each stage has its own independent nature and tasks. Among them, primary and secondary schools are general education, and primary education is basic education.

Primary education is the foundation of education at all levels. Personally, it is the basic stage for a person to form a certain ideological morality and master scientific and cultural knowledge, and it plays a decisive role in the ideological morality and scientific and cultural quality of every citizen. Good primary education is the basis of receiving secondary education. As far as the country is concerned, only by popularizing and improving primary education can secondary education and higher education be gradually popularized and improved. Primary education is the foundation for the country to develop secondary education and higher education.

The basic position of primary education in compulsory education can not be ignored. In the process of modernization, the implementation of compulsory education by the state is not only an objective requirement for the development of productive forces, but also a basic requirement for the quality of every citizen in modern society. This shows that compulsory education can only be the foundation.

Education, rather than professional education, should include the basic knowledge and skills that every member of society must possess, including the corresponding values and emotional attitudes. The basic position of primary education determines its important role in the process of completing this educational task.

(3) Mandatory

Compulsory education is not only the right of the educated, but also the obligation shared by all social strata, all aspects and all state departments. In order to ensure the implementation of compulsory education, we must rely on the coercive force of national laws, which is the compulsory nature of compulsory education. It is embodied in popularizing basic education for a certain number of years among all school-age children and adolescents through legislation. Since the founding of New China, the Party and the government have made many efforts to develop primary education.