Legal basis: Education Law of the People's Republic of China
Article 18 The State shall set standards for preschool education, speed up the popularization of preschool education, and build a public preschool education service system covering urban and rural areas, especially rural areas. People's governments at all levels shall take measures to provide conditions and support for school-age children to receive preschool education.
Article 19 The state implements a nine-year compulsory education system. People's governments at all levels take various measures to ensure that school-age children and adolescents enter school. Parents or other guardians of school-age children and adolescents, as well as relevant social organizations and individuals, have the obligation to enable school-age children and adolescents to receive and complete compulsory education for a specified number of years.