Legal basis: People's Republic of China (PRC) Teachers Law.
Article 3 Teachers are professionals who perform their educational and teaching duties, and undertake the mission of teaching and educating people, cultivating builders and successors of the socialist cause and improving the quality of the nation. Teachers should be loyal to the people's education.
Article 4 People's governments at all levels shall take measures to strengthen teachers' ideological and political education and professional training, improve their working and living conditions, safeguard their legitimate rights and interests and improve their social status. The whole society should respect teachers.