Private and public schools in China

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Education in People's Republic of China

Ministry of Education
Minister of Education	Chen Baosheng
National education budget (2018)
Budget	$685 billion (USD)[1]
General details
Primary languages	Mandarin
System type	Government and private
Established Compulsory education	1 July 1986
Literacy
Total	96.84%[4]
Male	98.47%[3]
Female	95.16%[2]
Enrollment
Total	(N/A)
Primary	103.4 million (2018)[5]
Secondary	39.3 million (2018)[5]
Post secondary	38.3 million (2018)[5]

Public schools in China are administered by the National Ministry of Education. Whilst the Ministry supervises general guidelines such as staff recruitment, national budgets and formal examinations, specific regulations directly correlated to each public school are managed by their District and Provincial Commissions of Education (Chan, 2019). The government is responsible for all aspects of the public education system, including but not limited to staff salaries, yearly curriculum, internal assessments and external rankings (Wang, 2005).

Private schools in China are administered by private individuals or corporations (Lin, 1999). Unlike public schools which are managed by the government, each private school's independent board of directors is responsible for tasks such as staff and student recruitment, salaries, principal assignment and student fees (Wang, 2005).