The balanced development of education must grasp the characteristics and treat it differently. The balanced development of education, especially the balanced development of basic education, can be divided into four stages: (1) the low-level balanced stage, that is, the stage of universal compulsory education, the main purpose of which is to let every school-age child enjoy the right to education and equal opportunities for education. (2) The primary equilibrium stage mainly aims at the reasonable and balanced allocation of educational resources, which is reflected in the equality of citizens' schooling and education conditions. (3) In the advanced equilibrium stage, deepen the reform of school education, strengthen the internal construction of school education, pursue the equality of education quality and school-running characteristics, so that every student can give full play to his own specialty and learning potential. (4) In the advanced equilibrium stage, educational resources are extremely rich, and the differences between different educated groups are greatly reduced. Every student can receive an education from relatively equal, give full play to his special skills and learning potential, and achieve academic success. At present, some economically developed areas in eastern China have basically popularized high school education and entered what we call the balanced stage of primary education, and some are striving to move towards the balanced stage of higher education. However, the vast central and western regions have been or are in the process of tackling the "two basics" and are still in a low-level equilibrium stage, which requires the state to increase its support. At this time, it is still difficult to promote the overall balanced development of basic education, so promoting the balanced development of regional basic education should be an important policy choice.

Any education has three stages of development: elite education, mass education and universal education. As far as basic education is concerned, China has basically popularized nine-year compulsory education. From the stage characteristics of the balanced development of education, the easier stage is the popularization stage. It is the best opportunity to realize the balanced development of education by moving from the popularization stage to the popularization stage and basically achieving the stage goal of popularization. However, after achieving popularization and entering the stage of consolidation and improvement, some places and schools with better economic conditions and better school-running conditions will have new development aspirations, requirements and development and improvement trends. At this time, the education gap that has been greatly reduced in the popularization stage will reappear with a new expanding trend. Therefore, in the process of promoting the balanced development of education, we should grasp the characteristics of different stages and adopt different countermeasures.