Quality education: refers to the educational model aimed at improving the quality of the educated in all aspects. 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 meaning. Since China's reform and opening up, the party and the state have always regarded improving the quality of the whole nation as a fundamental task related to the overall situation of socialist modernization.

At the beginning of the new century, knowledge economy has emerged, and the competition between science and technology and economy, especially talents, is becoming increasingly fierce around the world. The strength of national strength depends more and more on the quality of workers and the quality and quantity of all kinds of talents. Education is in a basic position in the formation of comprehensive national strength and bears the heavy responsibility of cultivating high-quality talents. Jiang Zemin said: "The rise and fall of the national movement depends on education, and the revitalization of education is the responsibility of the whole people."

Basic education:

Basic education is the basic project of national quality education, which has distinct foundation, relative stability and certain times. Quality education clearly embodies the basic characteristics of basic education. Quality education is an education that focuses on development and lays a foundation. Its fundamental task is to lay a solid and stable foundation for every student's future development and growth.

The connotation of "foundation" here is very rich, including extensive and comprehensive foundations such as ideological and moral quality, scientific and cultural quality, physical and psychological quality, labor skill quality and aesthetic quality. People's quality is a kind of "sum of relatively stable physical and mental organizational elements based on innate endowment and formed and developed under the influence of education and environment".

Quality education relies on outstanding cultural achievements accumulated in human history to form students' all-round quality and develop their healthy personality, which inevitably requires that the objectives, contents and methods of education remain relatively stable. People's quality is both relatively stable and contemporary.

Therefore, on the basis of maintaining relative stability, school education is required to properly absorb the latest scientific and cultural achievements according to the development of the times and social needs, and adjust, enrich and improve educational objectives, contents and methods to meet the challenges of modern society and the future world. Because quality education better embodies the basic characteristics of basic education, quality education is a high-level basic education.