| Since the installment of the Private Education Promoted Law in 2002, the private education sector
has flourished in China. By the end of 2018, there were an estimated 53.78 million students receiving education
spreading over 183500 private education entities of various sorts. In 2018, more than 700 billion yuan were
contributed to national treasure, which hugely aided the development of the education sector. The development
achievements of private education are the result of the joint effect of government policies, market demand, and selfsponsored
education by private schools. The key mechanism is that private education can provide society with
diversified and individualized education based on market signals and meet the needs of diversified education in the
development of modern society. However, since 2018, the phenomenon of "cream of the crop" has been on the rise,
and the development of private education in the compulsory education stage has been attributed to the "cream of
the crop" result. This is neither in line with the general facts of the innovation and development of private schools,
nor the general logic of human rational behavior.Hence, continuing to develop private education is a necessary
choice for the modernization of national education, and also an inherent need for the development of education. |
