China's Ministry of Education issued a 20-item negative list on March 27, 2026, detailing prohibited actions for schools and teachers across six areas to strengthen basic education governance.
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Source: OT-Team(G), 光明网
On March 27, China's Ministry of Education issued the Notice on Carrying Out the "Consolidation Year" Action for Standardized Management of Basic Education, launching a nationwide campaign to strengthen the governance of basic education.
The initiative focuses on five core areas: educational equity, routine management, school governance, campus safety, and the broader educational environment, aiming to continuously regulate school operations and ensure compliance with national standards.
The notice also introduces a 20-item "Negative List" (2026 edition), which specifies prohibited practices across six key categories: actions that threaten political security, undermine educational fairness, harm students' physical and mental health, create excessive academic burdens, involve professional misconduct by teachers, or infringe upon public interests. The list provides detailed guidance on behaviors that are strictly forbidden in schools.
1. It is strictly forbidden to express or disseminate speech or content that opposes the Communist Party of China or socialism, distorts the image of the Party and the state, defames national leaders or heroes, promotes separatism, falsifies history, or glorifies aggression. Such content must not be spread through online platforms, lectures, teaching materials, examinations, or any public channels.
2. It is strictly forbidden to violate national curriculum plans and standards, including conducting advanced or excessive teaching, or reducing class hours allocated to moral and political education, physical education and health, arts (music and fine arts), labor education, and comprehensive practical activities.
3. It is strictly forbidden to assign homework exceeding the total amount and time limits set by education authorities, or to assign repetitive or punitive homework.
4. It is strictly forbidden to violate regulations on daily examination management, including organizing excessive or frequent exams that increase students' academic burden.
5. It is strictly forbidden to arrange student schedules in violation of mandated sleep requirements, resulting in excessive study hours, or to occupy students' break time in any form, including prohibiting students from leaving classrooms during breaks.
6. It is strictly forbidden for schools to start semesters early or delay holidays in violation of the official academic calendar, or to organize collective classes or supplementary lessons during weekends, public holidays, or winter and summer breaks.
7. It is strictly forbidden for kindergartens to adopt primary school-style teaching methods, to teach primary school curriculum content in advance, or to assess preschool education quality through direct testing of children's abilities and development levels.
8. It is strictly forbidden for primary and secondary schools to organize any form of entrance examination aimed at selecting students, or to use competition awards, extracurricular training results, or certification test results as admission criteria.
9. It is strictly forbidden to evaluate or rank schools based on advancement rates or examination results, to rank or reward and penalize teachers accordingly, or to promote top scorers, elite school admission rates, or similar metrics. Schools are also prohibited from displaying signage such as "student source base for prestigious universities" or other misleading promotional slogans.
10. It is strictly forbidden for teachers to discriminate against students or to subject them to corporal punishment, disguised corporal punishment, verbal abuse, physical assault, sexual harassment, or any behavior that violates their personal dignity.
11. It is strictly forbidden for teachers to provide paid tutoring or to seek financial gain from parents through indirect means such as online tipping or paid knowledge services, or to profit from content that deliberately creates anxiety.
12. It is strictly forbidden for schools to deviate from the fundamental educational goal of fostering moral integrity by establishing unreasonable or unjustified rules that violate common sense or public morality, or by implementing management practices that treat students unequally or harm the interests of students and parents.
13. It is strictly forbidden for schools to ignore or tolerate bullying behaviors, including intimidation by groups, stronger students targeting weaker ones, or older students bullying younger ones.
14. It is strictly forbidden to organize primary and secondary school students to participate in commercial or competitive activities that do not align with their physical and psychological development or age characteristics, or to falsify volunteer service records or trade service hours.
15. It is strictly forbidden to engage in misconduct such as seeking personal gain, falsification, or procedural violations in processes such as student admissions to youth organizations or the selection of class leaders.
16. It is strictly forbidden to conduct superficial or formalistic campus safety inspections and rectifications, to maintain inadequate risk prevention and emergency response mechanisms, to ignore major safety hazards, or to conceal, misreport, or mishandle major incidents.
17. It is strictly forbidden for schools to neglect their responsibilities in food safety management, including insufficient supervision of canteen operations and hygiene, leading to the provision of spoiled or unsafe food that may cause food poisoning or other foodborne illnesses.
18. It is strictly forbidden to select or use teaching materials in violation of regulations, to illegally require supplementary materials, or to force or induce students to purchase books, electronic devices, teaching aids, or stationery through designated channels.
19. It is strictly forbidden to violate regulations on school uniform procurement, including forcing students to purchase uniforms or using such purchases for profit, thereby harming public interests.
20. It is strictly forbidden for schools to violate fee management regulations by adding unauthorized charges, increasing fee standards, expanding the scope of fees, or misappropriating or withholding financial aid funds designated for students.
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