1. The scale of higher education ranks first in the world. The scale of higher education in China has surpassed that of Russian, Indian and American, becoming the first in the world. In 2008, the enrollment of colleges and universities nationwide was 6.077 million, six times that of 1998. It took 10 years for China's higher education to develop from elite education to popularization, and it took 30 years, 50 years or even longer for other countries.

2. The quality of higher education has been continuously improved. Appropriately control the growth rate of enrollment, relatively stabilize the enrollment scale, adhere to the linkage between scale growth and basic school conditions, funding investment and employment status, and implement preferential policies for the development of higher education in western regions and ethnic minority areas. The teaching quality and teaching reform project have been fully implemented, and the teaching reform of higher education has been deepened.

3. The education system fully implements the Party's education policy, implements the fundamental task of educating people by moral education, trains socialist builders and successors with all-round development in morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor, promotes education equity, improves education quality, accelerates education modernization, builds an education power, and runs a satisfactory education for the people. The China characteristics of education are more distinct, and historic achievements have been made.

4. The concept of education is changing. The level of education popularization has achieved a historic leap in this decade. The level of education popularization has achieved a historic leap, which has better guaranteed the people's opportunities for education and effectively alleviated the people's urgent needs. At present, there are nearly 530,000 schools of all levels and types in China, with more than 290 million students.

The definition of education is divided into different levels:

1, broadly speaking, all activities that enhance people's knowledge and skills and affect people's ideology and morality are education. "Education" is regarded as a subsystem in the whole social system, which distributes and undertakes certain social functions. The most essential understanding of education is the knowledge instillation and behavior guidance of people's thoughts by society; The object of education is people; The content must be benign and meaningful.

2. Narrow sense: refers to individual spiritual sublimation. This definition emphasizes the influence of social factors on individual development. Defining "education" from a personal point of view is often equivalent to an individual's learning or development process.