Abstract
Objectives The purpose of this study is to analyze the procedures and contents of China's national level curriculum revision, focusing on the general framework of the 2022 revision of the elementary and middle school curriculum, and to draw implications for the revision of the Korean curriculum.
 Methods This study analyzed the documents and related prior research and government policy data of China's revised national curriculum for elementary and secondary schools. Goal setting, curriculum organization structure, common guidelines for subject curriculum quality control, framework document system, etc.
 Results First, the Chinese national curriculum is divided into three school-level curriculums: kindergarten, compulsory education schools, and high school. China's national curriculum revision cycle went through a long revision cycle of about 10 years for each school level. Second, the purpose of the revision is to emphasize the socialist state idea, to focus on core competencies for education reform in preparation for the future society, and to improve the curriculum for problem solving and educational reform. The educational goal is ‘a new human being with the ideal, ability, and responsibility required by the times’. In the curriculum organization, the 6-3 system was operated as a 5-4 system, allowing autonomy in the role of the region and school, and the integration of education between the two school levels for 9 years of compulsory education and the linkage between school levels were strengthened. Curriculum suggested key competencies, achievement standards and quality management plans based on them. In the curriculum document system, the principles and directions of curriculum revision are emphasized in the first half of both the general curriculum and each section, and the readability is clearly stated.
 Conclusions Implications include the stability of the Chinese curriculum revision cycle for about 10 years, the linkage of curriculum by school level and curriculum and the pursuit of independence at the same time, guidance on the role of the nation-local-school in designing and teaching the subjects. The principles of the learning process, evaluation, and operation are presented relatively clearly.
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