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Since the foundation of the People's Republic of China, the government has been devoted to popularizing the nine-year compulsory education with the aim to improve the national qualily. The nine-year compulsory education refers to nine years of education in primary and junior secondary schools. In 1986,China formulated Compulsory Education Law of the People's Republic of China, which indicated that the compulsory education system was legally established. Since then, the nine-year compulsory education had made significant progress. According to the statistics in 2002, the enrollment rate of primary school-aged children reached 98.6%. In 2006, the enacting of a new compulsory education law helped the compulsory education make great strides to quality-oriented education and free education, promoting the education in China into a new stage of development.