(Adopted at the Fourth Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Eighth
National People’s Congress on October 31, 1993, promulgated by Order No.
15 of the President of the People’s Republic of China and effective as
of January 1, 1994)

Article 1 This Law is formulated for the purpose of safeguarding
teachers’ legitimate rights and interests, building up a contingent of
teachers who are sound in moral character and good in professional
competence, and promoting the development of socialist education.

Article 2 This Law shall apply to teachers specially engaged in
education and teaching at schools of various levels and categories or
other institutions of education.
Article 3 Teachers are professionals who exercise the functions of
education and teaching and are charged with the duty of imparting
knowledge and educating people, training builders and successors for the
socialist cause and enhancing the quality of the nation. Teachers shall
devote themselves to the educational cause of the people.


Article 4 People’s governments at various levels shall adopt measures to
strengthen ideological and political education and professional training
of teachers, improve their working and living conditions, safeguard
their legitimate rights and interests and raise their social status.

Teachers shall be respected in the whole society.
Article 5 The administrative department of education under the State
Council shall be in charge of the work concerning teachers in the whole
country.

The departments concerned under the State Council shall, within the
scope of their functions and powers, be responsible for the relevant
work concerning teachers. Schools and other institutions of education shall administer the affairs
of teachers on their own according to the relevant provisions of the
State.