Legal basis: Article 3 of the Education Law of the People's Republic of China The state adheres to the guidance of Marxism–Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought and the Theory of Building Socialism with Chinese characteristics and follows the basic principles set by the Constitution to develop socialist education.
Article 4 Education is the foundation of socialist modernization, and the state guarantees the priority of education. The whole society should care about and support the development of education. The whole society should respect teachers.
Article 5 Education must serve the socialist modernization and the people, and must be combined with productive labor and social practice to cultivate socialist builders and successors with all-round development in morality, intelligence, physique and beauty.