China is a socialist country, and the principles of administration under the leadership of the Party, democratic centralism and people's participation in politics are the fundamental principles that the state administration should follow.
Reflected in the educational administration, it constitutes the main characteristics of the educational administration system: the leadership of the party to the educational administration and the leadership of the party to the educational administration are mainly the leadership of political lines and policies; Hierarchical management under unified leadership.
To sum up, the hierarchical management under the unified leadership of the central government is to implement the two-level management of central education administration and local education administration under the guidance of the unified principles and policies of the central government. As mentioned above, China's current educational administrative system of hierarchical management under the unified leadership of the central government is a system based on centralization and combining central management with local management.
Advantages and disadvantages of centralization and decentralization of educational administration
The centralized system of educational administration is conducive to unifying educational policies, coordinating educational development, adjusting the imbalance of educational development in various places, unifying educational standards and maintaining the overall level of national educational development.
However, the centralized system of educational administration makes educational administration inflexible, and it is difficult to develop education moderately, which often restricts the enthusiasm, initiative and creativity of lower-level organs in running education.
The greatest advantage of the educational administrative decentralization system is that it can make educational administration flexible, avoid developing education across the board and according to local conditions, and make education adapt to the actual needs of various places.
The initiative, enthusiasm and creativity of local and lower-level organs can be brought into full play only when power remains in the local area. However, the power is too scattered, which leads to the disunity of government decrees in education leadership and management, and the fragmentation of local governments, which leads to the blind confusion of education development and makes it difficult to play the overall function of education administration.