(Decree No.26 of the State Education Commission on March 9, 1996)
Chapter I General Principles
Article 1 This Regulation is formulated in accordance with the Education Law of the People’s Republic of China and other relevant education laws and regulations in order to strengthen the standardized management of primary school contents, comprehensively implement the education policy and comprehensively improve the quality of education.
Article 2 The primary schools referred to in these Regulations are institutions established by the government, enterprises, institutions, social organizations, other social organizations and individual citizens to carry out general primary education for children.
Article 3 Primary schools shall implement compulsory primary education.
The length of schooling in primary schools isSix or five years. Provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government may, according to the actual situation, determine the length of schooling for primary schools within their respective administrative areas.
Article 4 Primary schools should implement the policy that education must serve the socialist modernization, and must be combined with productive labor to train builders and successors of the socialist cause with moral, intellectual and physical development.
Article 5 Primary education should be connected with pre-school education and junior high school education. On the basis of school education, education and teaching activities should be implemented to make the educated lively and actively develop and lay the foundation for junior high school education.
Article 6 The training objectives of primary schools are:
Initially, he has the thoughts and feelings of loving the motherland, people, labor, science and socialism; Abide by social morality, collective consciousness and civilized behavior habits; Good will, character and lively and cheerful personality; Self-management and ability to distinguish right from wrong.
Have the basic knowledge and skills of reading, writing, expressing and calculating, know some common sense of life, nature and society, have the ability of initial observation, thinking, hands-on operation and learning, and develop good study habits. Learn the methods of reasonable exercise and physical maintenance, form the habit of paying attention to hygiene, and have a healthy body and initial environmental adaptability. Has a wide range of interests and a healthy interest in beauty.
Article 7 The basic teaching language in primary schools is Chinese. Schools should promote the use of Putonghua and standardized characters.
Schools that mainly recruit minority students can use the spoken and written languages commonly used by their own ethnic groups or local ethnic groups for teaching, and should offer Chinese language courses at appropriate grades according to the actual situation.
Eighth primary schools implement the principal responsibility system, and the principal is fully responsible for the school administration.
In rural areas, the principal responsibility system of central primary schools can be implemented according to the situation.
Ninth primary schools in accordance with the principle of "hierarchical management, division of responsibilities", the implementation of education under the leadership of the local people’s government.
Chapter II Admission and Student Status Management
Tenth primary school enrollment has reached the age of ten.Children who are 6 years old can be postponed to 7 years old in areas where conditions are not available. Primary schools start in autumn.
Primary schools should, in accordance with the provisions of the Compulsory Education Law and its detailed rules for implementation, organize school-age children in service areas to enter the school on time and without examination under the leadership of the local government. The service area of primary schools shall be determined by the competent administrative department of education.
Eleventh primary schools adopt the class teaching system, and the organizational form of classes should be single, and those who do not have the conditions can also adopt double. The number of places in teaching classes shall not exceed45 people is appropriate.
The school scale should be conducive to education and teaching, to students’ physical and mental health, to management and to improving the efficiency of running a school.
Twelfth primary school students who are unable to continue their studies due to illness (must have the certificate of designated medical units) may be allowed to suspend their studies after being approved by the relevant departments. Students who have been out of school for more than three months can be enrolled in the corresponding grades according to their actual academic level and after consulting their parents or other guardians.
Primary schools that apply for transfer due to the change of household registration and are approved by the relevant education administrative departments to meet the requirements shall be properly placed in time and shall not refuse without reason.
Primary school students who apply for schooling in the place where they are not registered for any reason may be allowed to borrow if they meet the requirements after examination by the relevant departments, and may charge a borrowing fee according to the relevant provisions.
Thirteenth primary schools should comprehensively evaluate students from moral, intellectual and physical aspects. We should do a good job in counseling students with learning difficulties and actively create conditions to gradually abolish the repetition system. Where the repetition system is still implemented at this stage, it is necessary to create conditions to gradually reduce the proportion of students who repeat grades and reduce the number of times they repeat grades.
Primary schools will issue graduation certificates to those who have completed the prescribed courses and passed the grades; Those who fail will be issued with a certificate of completion, and the graduation grade will not be repeated. For those who have not completed the primary school curriculum, but have completed the compulsory education period stipulated by the local government, an associate degree certificate will be issued.
Fourteenth primary school students with excellent academic performance who have reached the academic level of higher grades in advance may be allowed to advance to the corresponding grades and report to the competent education department for the record.
Article 15 Primary schools shall commend students with excellent academic performance, criticize and educate students who have made mistakes, and give warnings, serious warnings and demerits to a few students who have made serious mistakes.
Primary schools may not expel students.
Sixteenth primary schools should prevent students who have not finished compulsory education for a specified number of years from dropping out of school. If they find that students have dropped out of school, they should immediately report to the competent authorities and cooperate with relevant departments to resume their studies according to law and do a good job.
Seventeenth specific measures for the management of primary school student status shall be formulated by the provincial education administrative department.
Chapter III Education and Teaching Work
Article 18 The main task of primary schools is education and teaching. All other work should be based on the principle of being conducive to the development of education and teaching.
Nineteenth primary schools should carry out education and teaching in accordance with the curriculum plan and syllabus issued by the national or provincial education administrative departments.
In the teaching work of primary schools, we should give full play to the overall functions of subject courses and activity courses, and provide students with moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and labor education to lay the foundation for their all-round development.
Twentieth primary schools should actively carry out education and teaching research, use educational theory to guide education and teaching activities, and actively promote scientific research achievements and successful experiences.
Twenty-first primary schools should put moral education in an important position, the principal is responsible, the teaching staff participate, teach and educate people, manage and educate people.
School education should be combined with family education and social education.
Twenty-second primary schools should set up a class teacher in each class, who is responsible for managing and guiding the class work. Teachers in charge of class should keep close contact with teachers in all subjects and parents of students, understand the situation of students’ thoughts, morality, behavior and studies, and coordinate and cooperate with students in implementing education.
The head teacher should write comments according to the students’ behavior every semester.
Twenty-third primary schools should give priority to positive education for students, affirm achievements and progress, point out shortcomings and deficiencies, and must not be sarcastic and rude, and corporal punishment and disguised corporal punishment are strictly prohibited.
Twenty-fourth primary school teaching should be oriented to all students, adhere to the principle of aptitude, and give full play to the main role of students; We should attach importance to basic knowledge teaching and basic skills training, stimulate interest in learning, and cultivate correct learning methods and habits.
Twenty-fifth primary schools should arrange school work in accordance with the school calendar promulgated by the administrative department of education. Primary schools are not allowed to suspend classes at will. If it is necessary to suspend classes under special circumstances, it shall be decided by the principal within one day and reported to the county education administrative department for the record. One day or more and three days or less shall be approved by the people’s government at the county level.
Primary schools may not organize students to participate in commercial celebrations, performances and other activities, and participation in other social activities should not affect the teaching order and the normal work of schools.
Twenty-sixth primary schools should arrange their schedules reasonably. Students spend no more than five or six years in school for education and teaching activities every day.6 hours, other grades should be reduced appropriately. Students are not allowed to make up classes or take new classes after class, at night and on holidays.
The content of homework after class should be carefully selected, the difficulty should be moderate, the quantity should be appropriate, and the relevant regulations should be strictly implemented to ensure the students’ academic burden is appropriate.
Twenty-seventh textbooks used in primary schools must be approved by the state or the provincial textbook approval department authorized by the state. Experimental teaching materials and local teaching materials must be approved by the relevant education administrative departments before they can be used.
Primary schools shall not require or uniformly organize students to purchase all kinds of learning guidance materials. It is necessary to strengthen guidance for students to use learning tools.
Twenty-eighth primary schools should evaluate the teaching quality in various forms according to the requirements of curriculum plan and syllabus. At the end of the semester, the examination subjects are Chinese and mathematics, and other subjects pass the usual examination to evaluate their grades.
The primary school graduation examination is made by the school (in rural areas, it is made by the township central primary school under the guidance of the county-level education administrative department), and the examination subjects are Chinese and mathematics.
Schools should establish scientific standards for comprehensively evaluating the quality of education morally, intellectually and physically, and should not rank classes and students by examination results, and take them as the only standards for measuring teaching quality and evaluating teachers’ teaching work.
Twenty-ninth primary schools should pay attention to physical education and aesthetic education.
Schools should strictly implement the laws and regulations on school physical education promulgated by the state, and enhance students’ physique through physical education class and other forms of physical activities. Schools should ensure that students have one hour of physical activity every day.
Primary schools should give good music and art lessons, and other disciplines should also give play to the function of aesthetic education from the characteristics of their own disciplines. Aesthetic education should combine students’ daily life, put forward aesthetic requirements such as dress, appearance, language and behavior, and cultivate healthy aesthetic taste.
Thirtieth primary schools should strengthen labor education for students, cultivate students’ thoughts of loving labor, loving the working people and cherishing the fruits of labor, cultivate their ability to engage in self-service, housework, public welfare labor and simple productive labor, and form working habits.
Article 31 Primary schools should strengthen the guidance of students’ extracurricular activities, pay attention to contact with students’ families, children’s palaces (homes, stations) and youth science and technology museums (stations) and other extracurricular activities, carry out beneficial activities, and arrange students’ extracurricular activities in accordance with the relevant provisions of the education administrative department.
Chapter IV Personnel Work
Thirty-second primary schools can set up principals, vice principals, directors, teachers and other personnel according to the establishment.
Article 33 The principal of a primary school is the person in charge of school administration. The headmaster should have the qualifications stipulated by the state and be appointed or employed by the higher authorities of the school setters or setters; The vice president and the director of teaching (general affairs) are nominated by the principal and appointed or employed according to the relevant provisions and procedures. Primary school principals set up by non-government should be reported to the competent education administrative department for the record.
Principals should strengthen the study of educational policies, regulations and educational theories, strengthen their self-cultivation, improve their management level and manage the school according to law. Its main responsibilities are:
(a) to implement the national education policy, implement the education laws and regulations and the instructions and regulations of the education administrative department, follow the laws of education, and improve the quality of education;
(B) to formulate the development of the school
(three) follow the relevant laws and policies of the state, pay attention to the construction of teaching staff. Relying on teaching staff to run the school well and safeguard their legitimate rights and interests;
(4) Give full play to the leading role of school education, and strive to promote the coordination of school education, family education and social education, and cooperate with each other to form a good educational environment.
Thirty-fourth primary school principals should fully respect the democratic rights of teaching staff and listen to their opinions and suggestions on school work; Teaching staff should obey the leadership of the principal and conscientiously complete their own work.
Teachers’ opinions and suggestions on school work can be directly reflected to the competent authorities when necessary, and no organization or individual may obstruct them.
Thirty-fifth primary school teachers should have the qualifications prescribed by the state, enjoy and perform the rights and obligations prescribed by law, abide by professional ethics, and complete the education and teaching work.
Thirty-sixth primary schools should strengthen the management of teachers, implement the system of teacher qualification, position and appointment according to the relevant provisions of the state, and establish and improve the professional assessment files. It is necessary to strengthen teachers’ ideological and political education and professional ethics education, and establish professionalism. Excellent teachers who conscientiously perform their duties should be rewarded.
Thirty-seventh primary schools should attach importance to teachers’ continuing education, formulate teachers’ further education plans, and actively create conditions for teachers’ further education. Teachers’ further education should be based on the needs of school work, focusing on on-the-job, self-study and teaching subjects.
Thirty-eighth other primary school personnel should have the corresponding political and professional qualities, and their specific qualifications and responsibilities shall be formulated by the education administrative department or school according to the relevant provisions of the state.
Chapter V Administrative Work
Thirty-ninth primary schools can set up institutions or personnel in charge of educational affairs, general affairs, etc. according to the scale, to assist the principals in doing the relevant work (grade groups can also be set up in larger schools), and their specific responsibilities shall be formulated by the schools.
Article 40 If a primary school is large in scale, a school affairs committee convened by the principal and attended by the heads of various departments may be established to study and decide on major issues of the school.
Forty-first primary schools should establish a staff (representative) assembly system, and strengthen democratic management and supervision. The general assembly can be held regularly, without a permanent body.
Article 42 the Communist Party of China (CPC) plays a political core role in the organization of primary schools. Principals should rely on the Party’s school (local) grass-roots organizations and give full play to the role of trade unions, the Communist Youth League, the Young Pioneers and other organizations in school work.
Forty-third primary schools should establish and improve educational research, business files, financial management, safety work, learning, meetings and other systems.
Schools should establish a roster of staff, students and other statistical tables, and report them to the education administrative department of the competent department on a regular basis.
Forty-fourth primary schools should accept the inspection, supervision and guidance of the administrative department of education or the competent department at a higher level, and truthfully report their work and reflect the situation.
At the end of the school year, the school should report to the education administrative department or the superior competent department, and major issues should be reported at any time.
Chapter VI School Buildings, Equipment and Funds
Article 45 The conditions and funds for running a primary school shall be provided by the school sponsors. Its standards are formulated by the provincial people’s government.
Primary schools should have school buildings, venues, facilities, teaching instruments and books and materials that meet the prescribed standards.
Forty-sixth primary schools should comply with the relevant provisions of the management and use of school buildings, venues, etc., without the approval of the competent authorities, shall not change their use.
It is necessary to carry out regular repairs and maintenance of school buildings, and immediately stop using dangerous buildings when they are found, and report them to the higher authorities. For the act of encroaching on school buildings and sites, the school can report to the higher authorities of the infringer according to law until it brings a lawsuit to the people’s court.
Primary schools should do a good job in campus construction planning, purification and greening, beautify the campus, do a good job in campus culture construction, and form a good educational environment.
Forty-seventh primary schools should strengthen the management of teaching instruments, equipment, books, recreational and sports equipment and health facilities, establish and improve the system, and improve the efficiency of use.
Forty-eighth public primary schools are free of tuition fees, and can appropriately collect miscellaneous fees. Primary school fees should be strictly in accordance with the charging items formulated by the provincial people’s government and the standards and measures formulated by the people’s governments at or above the county level.
Forty-ninth primary schools can hold school-run industries according to relevant regulations, and organize teachers and students to work and study from the actual situation of the school. It is strictly forbidden to apportion money and materials to students instead of work-study programs.
Primary schools can accept social donations according to the relevant provisions of the state.
Article 50 Primary schools should scientifically manage and rationally use school funds, improve the efficiency of use, establish and improve the fund management system, and submit the budget and final accounts to the school affairs committee or the staff congress for deliberation, and accept the supervision of the financial and auditing departments at higher levels.
Chapter VII Health Care and Safety
Fifty-first primary schools should conscientiously implement the relevant state regulations and policies on school health work, and establish and improve the school health work system. There should be a special person in charge of this work (schools with conditions should set up a school doctor’s office), and students’ health cards should be established to experience regularly or irregularly according to conditions.
Fifty-second primary school environment, school buildings, facilities, books, equipment, etc. should be conducive to the physical and mental health of students, and the arrangement of education and teaching activities should conform to the physiological and psychological characteristics of students.
It is necessary to continuously improve the school environmental sanitation and teaching hygiene conditions, carry out health education, cultivate students’ good hygiene habits, and prevent infectious diseases, common diseases and food poisoning.
Fifty-third primary schools should strengthen school safety work, carry out safety education according to local conditions, and cultivate teachers and students’ self-help and self-care ability. Where students are organized to participate in cultural and sports activities, social practice, outings and labor, proper preventive measures should be taken to ensure the safety of teachers and students.
Chapter VIII School, Family and Society
Fifty-fourth primary schools should establish community education organizations with streets, villagers’ committees and nearby organs, organizations, troops, enterprises and institutions, mobilize all sectors of society to support school work, and optimize the educational environment. Primary schools should also give full play to their own advantages and serve the spiritual civilization construction of the community.
Fifty-fifth primary schools should take the initiative to establish contact with students’ families, and use parents’ schools and other forms to guide and help parents to create a good family education environment.
Parents’ committees can be set up in primary schools to make them understand the school work, help schools solve the difficulties encountered in running schools, and reflect the opinions and suggestions of parents of students.
The parents’ committee works under the guidance of the headmaster.
Chapter 9 Other things
Fifty-sixth rural central primary schools should play the role of school demonstration, teaching and research center and further education base under the guidance of the county education department, and promote the overall improvement of the quality of local primary education.
Fifty-seventh primary schools that undertake the task of education and teaching reform may, after being approved by the relevant departments, adjust some requirements in this regulation according to actual needs.
Chapter X Supplementary Provisions
Article 58 A primary school shall, in accordance with the Education Law of the People’s Republic of China and these regulations, formulate its articles of association in light of its actual situation.
Fifty-ninth this regulation is mainly applicable to urban primary schools, rural primary schools and above, and other types of primary schools and institutions that implement primary education can refer to it.
The education administrative departments of all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government may formulate implementation measures according to this regulation.
Article 60 These Rules shall come into force as of the date of promulgation.
