The Idea and Implementation Policy of Lifelong Education in China

Lifelong education and lifelong learning are an international trend, the establishment of lifelong education system constructs one of important foundations of a learning society. Lifelong education is a reply to the challenges of modern education in replace of traditional education. The lifelong education system should be understood as:integration, coordination and interaction among formal education, non-formal education and informal education. While lifelong learning and lifelong education stress “any time” of learning education, community education stresses learning and receiving education “everywhere. In the implementation of lifelong education as a system it is necessary to emphasize the all round organizational principle based on all forms of education as well as surmounting these forms. The implementation of lifelong education need reasonable policies and strategies.