The Year 2011 is the first one in implementing the "National Guidelines for Medium- and Long-term Educational Reform and Development". Governments at all levels have made significant progress in the following fields: placing higher priority on developing education, promoting justice in educational access, achieving more balanced development of compulsory education, and reforming preschool education. And the relationship between the supply of and demand for education continues to improve. Meanwhile hot and difficult problems and issues in education continue to ferment and become hotter and hotter. Public participation in educational reform, self-directed explorations initiated by grassroots entities have become more frequent. New progress can also be seen in the following fields: the government taking more active steps to respond to social demand, and improvement of benign interaction between government and the general public in educational governance. When pushing forward educational reforms in depth it is necessary to recognize and construct the dynamic mechanism of the reforms, renovate educational paradigms and promote substantive institutional change. <<