Two basics: basically popularizing nine-year compulsory education and basically eliminating illiteracy among young people.
1993 February 13, the State Council issued the Outline of Education Reform and Development in China. According to the war preparation needs of China's socialist modernization, the overall goal of China's education development is to basically popularize nine-year compulsory education and basically eliminate illiteracy among young and middle-aged people; Comprehensively implement the party's educational policy and improve the quality of education; It is necessary to build a number of key schools and a number of key disciplines. Referred to as "two basics", "both" and "both".
Guided by Socialism with Chinese characteristics's construction theory, the 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of China determined the main tasks of China's reform and construction in the 1990s, and clearly put forward that "education must be given priority in strategic development, and efforts should be made to improve the ideological, moral, scientific and cultural level of the whole nation, which is the fundamental plan to realize China's modernization".