Article 19 The state undertakes the development of socialist education and works to raise the scientific and cultural level of the whole nation.

　　國家舉辦各種學(xué)校，普及初等義務(wù)教育，發(fā)展中等教育、職業(yè)教育和高等教育，并且發(fā)展學(xué)前教育。

　　The state establishes and administers schools of various types, universalizes compulsory primary education and promotes secondary, vocational and higher education as well as preschool education.

　　國家發(fā)展各種教育設(shè)施，掃除文盲，對工人、農(nóng)民、國家工作人員和其他勞動者進行政治、文化、科學(xué)、技術(shù)、業(yè)務(wù)的教育，鼓勵自學(xué)成才。

　　The state develops educational facilities in order to eliminate illiteracy and provide political, scientific, technical and professional education as well as general education for workers, peasants, state functionaries and other working people. It encourages people to become educated through independent study.

　　國家鼓勵集體經(jīng)濟組織、國家企業(yè)事業(yè)組織和其他社會力量依照法律規(guī)定舉辦各種教育事業(yè)。

　　The state encourages the collective economic organizations, state enterprises and institutions and other sectors of society to establish educational institutions of various types in accordance with the law.

　　國家推廣全國通用的普通話。