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What is the education system in China?
China's education system includes preschool education, primary education, secondary education and higher education.

1, preschool education

Preschool education is an education that parents and kindergarten teachers use various methods and objects to stimulate children's brains systematically and scientifically, so as to gradually improve the functions of various parts of the brain. Preschool education is one of the important contents of preschool education and a part of the scientific system of preschool education.

2. Primary education

The major of primary education focuses on training teachers of mental health education and psychological counseling urgently needed in primary and secondary schools, supplemented by training preschool teachers, women's federations, public security, armed police, hospital psychological counselors and therapists, and social psychological counselors. 2 1 Century Primary education is a major in universities, but arts and sciences have different teaching objectives.

3. Secondary education

Secondary education is a continuing education based on primary education. Full-time general middle school education includes two stages: junior high school and senior high school, with a duration of three years. It used to be divided into three sections, four sections, three sections and two sections.

Courses in ordinary middle schools include Chinese, mathematics, foreign languages, politics, history, geography, physics, chemistry, biology, physical education, music, fine arts, physical health, labor technology and so on. The school rewards outstanding students with all-round development in morality, intelligence and physique. Ordinary high schools should gradually add vocational (technical) education courses, and students can choose their own subjects.

4. Higher education

Higher education is a professional education and vocational education based on the completion of secondary education, and it is the main social activity to train senior professionals and professionals. Higher education is one of the important interrelated components in the education system. It usually includes all kinds of educational institutions whose main tasks and activities are high-level learning and training, teaching, research and social services.

Compulsory education:

Compulsory education is an educational system implemented in China.

Article 18 of the Education Law of the People's Republic of China stipulates that the state implements nine-year compulsory education. Governments at all levels have legal responsibilities and must take various measures to ensure that school-age children and adolescents enter school; Parents or other guardians, as well as relevant social organizations and individuals, also have the legal responsibility to urge school-age children and adolescents to receive compulsory education for a specified number of years.

Therefore, compulsory education is not only the obligation of the state to the people, but also the obligation of parents to the state and society. Compulsory education is equal and compulsory.

The Compulsory Education Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) stipulates that all children who have reached the age of six, regardless of gender, nationality or race, should attend school and receive compulsory education for a specified number of years. Compulsory education in China is tuition-free education, which is divided into two stages: primary education (primary school) and junior high school education (junior high school).

The educational system of compulsory education mainly includes "six-three system", "May 4th system" and "nine-year consistent system". Compulsory education is an inevitable requirement for the development of production and life in modern society and an important symbol of modern civilization.