Experts such as Chu and Wang Feng believe that the specific education system reform includes the reform of education administration system, the reform of university management system, the establishment of public education financial system, the reform of basic education management system, the establishment of modern school system, the reform of examination, evaluation and employment system, and the establishment of scientific and democratic decision-making and social participation system. Among them, the most important and core is the reform of educational administrative management system. The reform of educational administrative system needs to absorb the principles of limited government and administration according to law, implement laws and regulations such as administrative licensing law, and reform the highly centralized and unified educational management system, so that the administrative functions of educational authorities can be transformed from management and planning to guidance and service. Through the decentralization of the government's educational management power, the autonomy of running a school can be realized, so as to restore the vitality, creativity and diversification of education and realize the autonomy and democratization of school management.
When talking about the motive mechanism of the current education reform in China, Yang Dongping and other experts believe that there are three different motives and values in the current public utilities reform, including education. The important feature of system reform in the transitional period is called "insider reform", that is, in the absence of social participation and interest game mechanism, the reform is carried out by the power department with important resources. Therefore, the reform under this model is often not concerned with how to open the market, provide public services fairly and justly, and improve efficiency through management reform; On the contrary, they pursue their own interests through profit-making links such as income generation and fees, and even openly set up rent-seeking. This has created departmental interests and special interest groups based on monopoly, distorted market and unfair competition, which has greatly tarnished the image of reform and made people doubt the direction of marketization.
Based on the above, experts stressed that the most prominent education problem at present is how to deal with the relationship between the government and the market, how to determine and standardize the government's functions and educational responsibilities under the market economy environment, and how to lay the basic value of education public policy.