What are the aims of education in the new period after the founding of New China?

1. Cultivating "laborers" is the general requirement of the purpose of socialist education.

The most fundamental question in the aims of education is to answer the question of what kind of people to train. The new people trained by socialist education should never be exploiters or parasites, and everyone should be proud of their labor.

2. The requirement of all-round development in morality, intellect and physique is the socialist quality standard of education.

Another component of the aim of education is the question of training specifications, i.e., the quality structure and quality standard of talents. The aim of socialist education is to cultivate a new type of laborer with all-round development.

Expanded Information

In April 1986 China promulgated the Compulsory Education Law of the People's Republic of China*** and the State. This was the first time that free and compulsory education in China was fixed in the form of a law, meaning that "children and adolescents" of school age must receive nine years of compulsory education. The enactment of the Compulsory Education Law marked a new stage in the development of basic education in China. Although there are only 18 articles, "the state implements nine years of compulsory education" has since become a legal obligation.

The latest Compulsory Education Law of the People's Republic of China (PRC) was amended and adopted on June 29, 2006, at the 22nd meeting of the Standing Committee of the 10th National People's Congress of the PRC, and came into effect on September 1, 2006, with a new law on compulsory education. After two years of transition, China has with the fall of 2008 nationwide implementation of a veritable compulsory education.

Compulsory education is the national education that, according to the law, children and young people of school age must receive, and that the State, society and the family must guarantee. In essence, the state in accordance with the provisions of the law for children and young people of school age to implement a certain number of years of forced education system. Compulsory education is also known as forced education and free compulsory education. Compulsory education is characterized by compulsory, free and universal.