As far as China's education system is concerned, China's academic education can be divided into compulsory education, basic education, vocational education, professional education and postgraduate education. Initial education is the last education a person gets before working, or the highest education he gets from a full-time school before working.

Compulsory education and basic education stage

Compulsory education and basic education include primary school, junior high school and senior high school.

vocational education

Vocational education refers to the education of professional knowledge, skills and professional ethics necessary for the educated to engage in a certain occupation or productive labor, including vocational high schools, higher vocational schools and technical schools.

Professional education

Professional education includes secondary specialized schools, secondary normal schools and institutions of higher learning. Admission requires unified recruitment, and graduation requires dispatch certificate.

postgraduate education

Postgraduate education takes scientific research as the main direction, including master students and doctoral students.