Quality education refers to an educational model that not only emphasizes the academic achievements of the educated, but also aims at improving the quality and ability of the educated in all aspects, so as to make them develop in an all-round way.

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.

Quality education is an education with the fundamental aim of improving people's basic quality in an all-round way, respecting people's subjectivity and initiative, taking people's personality as the basis, paying attention to developing people's wisdom potential and forming people's sound personality as the fundamental feature. Quality-oriented education is the practical need of social development, aiming at making people correctly face and deal with all things and phenomena in their social environment.

Basic education is the basic stage of receiving comprehensive education, which generally includes primary school, junior high school and senior high school. It refers to the education that gives the younger generation a comprehensive quality education and lays the foundation for their future life and development. China's basic education, a kind of compulsory education, refers to the education of primary schools and junior high schools; The other kind of non-compulsory education refers to high school education, which is the last class of basic education.