China's Compulsory Education Law stipulates that the starting age of compulsory education is 6 years old. Areas that do not have the conditions can still enter school at the age of 7; In particularly difficult areas, the school age can be appropriately postponed.

Nine-year compulsory education is implemented in the six-three system of junior high school in six years, the May 4th system of junior high school in five years, or the nine-year consistent system. Five years in primary school and three years in junior high school are transitional academic systems.

The inspection and acceptance of universal primary education shall be carried out in accordance with the requirements of enrollment rate, consolidation rate, graduation rate and popularization rate. To popularize junior high school education, it is necessary to ensure that primary school graduates enter junior high school and complete nine-year compulsory education. Most of the teenagers aged from 17 to 18 graduated from junior high school.

Extended data:

Present situation of primary schools in China

There are178,000 ordinary primary schools nationwide, a decrease of130,000 compared with the previous year. The national primary school enrollment was17.525 million, an increase of 234,000 over the previous year, with an increase of 1.4%.

Among them, urban primary schools enrolled 59 1.8 million students, an increase of 342,000 students, an increase of 6 1%. The number of primary school students was 9,965,438+3,000, an increase of 2.208 million or 2.3%.

Primary education is generally a six-year system, which is divided into three stages: the first and second grades are called lower grades, the third and fourth grades are called middle grades, and the fifth and sixth grades are called higher grades. From 65438 to 0979, China changed the five-year primary school system to six-year primary school system.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Opinions on Several Issues Concerning the Implementation of Compulsory Education