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A key section of quality education is the reform of course system and evaluation system and the reform of education content and teaching methods. In these years, the country has established a new fundamental education course system, experimented national courses, local course and school courses, changed the traditional course system, which over emphasized subject study, and deviated the social development and student situation.

Primary school pupils learning to read English. In the early 1950s, under a planned economic system with a fairly low level of social development, all teaching materials for primary and middle schools were compiled by the People's Education Publishing House at the behest of the Ministry of Education. This mode, characterized by nationally unified teaching plans, unified teaching programs and unified textbooks, was used until 1985.

In 1986 Compulsory Education Law of the People's Republic of China was promulgated. With regard to curricula for compulsory education, the law provides: that curricula at the primary school stage include ethics, Chinese, math, nature study, society, physical culture, music, fine arts and labor; and that curricula at the junior middle school stage include ideological and political orientation, Chinese, math, a foreign language, history, geography, physics,