Supervision refers to the supervision of government activities, including educational administrative institutions established by the government. Government supervision and school inspectors together constitute the task of educational supervision, and they are closely related. Supervision of the government cannot be separated from inspectors, who are the basis of supervision of the government.

(2) The significance of implementing supervision in China.

In recent years, the practice of educational supervision in China is to pay equal attention to the government and schools, with the government as the mainstay, which is determined by China's national conditions. The significance of supervision in China lies in:

The fundamental characteristics of China's current political system determine the macro-decision-making power of China's various undertakings, and the overall planning and regulation of manpower, material resources and financial resources are mainly in the hands of party committees and government leaders. The development of education and the cooperation of education administrative departments can not be separated from the government's attention and leadership, which is also the embodiment of the laws of social development and education itself. As far as the development of the whole society is concerned, the development of modern economy and society requires governments at all levels to intervene in education; According to the law of education itself, its development can not be separated from the politics, economy and culture of society. The inherent economic, political and cultural functions of education determine that it must keep pace with the political, economic and cultural development of society. Therefore, attaching importance to and strengthening the government's intervention in education is one of the development trends of modern society and modern education.

② The reform of the education management system since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee aims at realizing the transformation of the central education administrative function to macro-control by simplifying administration and decentralizing power, and establishing a management system of localization and local responsibility for basic education. Governments at all levels, especially local governments at all levels, have a decisive role in understanding and managing education, especially basic education. Therefore, it is necessary to establish special institutions to understand and supervise the education work of governments at all levels. The Interim Provisions on Education Supervision defines the overall supervision, inspection, evaluation and guidance on behalf of the government at the same level to the education work of the lower levels as the task and responsibility of the education supervision organization, which is a useful exploration for establishing the supervision system in Socialism with Chinese characteristics in China and basically meets the needs of the reform of the education management system and the development of education.

③ Strengthening education is generally considered as an important weight to enhance comprehensive national strength and international competitiveness. Since the reform and opening up in China, the Party and the government have also placed education in a strategic position of giving priority to development. The establishment of supervision system and supervision work is precisely to strengthen the government's management of education and realize the priority development of education.