Compulsory education is a national education that school-age children and adolescents must accept according to law and is guaranteed by the state, society and family. Its essence is a system of compulsory education for school-age children and adolescents for a certain period of time according to law.

In fact, this is a compulsory education system for school-age children and adolescents according to law. The annual limit is nine years, which is also called nine-year compulsory education. Compulsory education is also called compulsory education and free compulsory education. Compulsory education has the basic characteristics of compulsory, free, universal and secular.

During the Republic of China, it was generally believed that the illiteracy rate was 80%. For example, Chairman Mao put forward in his report 1945 "On Coalition Government": "It is an important task for the new China to eliminate illiteracy among 80% of the population." Just after the founding of New China, the central leadership has reached the education level of developed countries in one step, which reflects the firm belief that no matter how poor the country is, it cannot be poor in education.

As a large developing country, China has made great achievements in compulsory education. Since the promulgation of 1986, the compulsory education law has been fully popularized for 25 years. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, it has taken a short period of 10 years to realize the basic balanced development of counties, and the popularization and education quality rank among the top in the world, which has become a miracle in the history of world education.

Educational essence

1, public welfare

The so-called public welfare means that it is clearly stipulated that "tuition and miscellaneous fees are not charged". Public welfare and freedom are linked. For example, Article 2 of the revised Compulsory Education Law stipulates that the state implements a nine-year compulsory education system.

Step 2 be consistent

Unity is always an idea. In the new law, the national unified compulsory education has been emphasized from beginning to end, including the establishment of unified standards for textbooks for compulsory education.

3. Commanding

Coercion is also called coercion. It is the obligation of schools, parents and society to let school-age children and adolescents receive compulsory education. Whoever violates this obligation will be regulated by law.