Secondary education is a secondary general education and professional education implemented on the basis of primary education, which is divided into two stages: primary and advanced. Secondary education includes: (1) full-time ordinary middle schools, with a school system of 5 -6 years, which are divided into three sections, four sections, three sections and two sections, and are responsible for transporting qualified freshmen to higher schools and cultivating labor reserve forces. (2) Secondary specialized schools, including secondary technical schools and secondary specialized schools, recruit junior high school or high school graduates, with a schooling of 3 -4 years, and mainly train intermediate professional and technical personnel. (3) Vocational middle schools, agricultural middle schools or work-study middle schools recruit junior high school graduates for three years. The task is to cultivate the reserve force of labor force for the country and all kinds of urgently needed talents for cities and rural areas.

Secondary professional education is divided into secondary technical schools, normal schools and vocational schools, with a schooling period of two to three years and three to four years. The specialties of secondary specialized schools and vocational schools include engineering, agriculture and forestry, medicine, health, finance and economics, management, politics and law, art, normal education, sports and tourism.

Junior secondary education refers to middle schools, which are divided into junior middle schools and senior middle schools and belong to the category of secondary education. Junior high school generally refers to a middle school with nine-year compulsory education, and senior high school refers to a middle school with non-compulsory education in senior high school.

Middle school, also called junior high school and junior high school, is the abbreviation of "middle school" and belongs to a major type of school. The knowledge it teaches is higher than that of primary schools and lower than that of universities, and it is in a "middle position". The age of students in school is generally 1 1, 12 to17,65438+.