Abstract: Our party’s understanding of rules of socialist construction with Chinese features is getting deeper and deeper. Attention paid to people’s livelihood and solution to problems concerning it have become the key projects in socialist constrution. This is the specific reflection of the concept that our party sticks to the people oriented principle, and the tenet that the party is founded for the pulic and runs our country for all the people. And education is the foundation of people’s livelihood. Its development is the fundamental project to solve problems of people’s livelihood. On one hand, the current situation of education determines the priority of educational development if we care for people’s livelihood. On the other hand, the educational functions also determine such priority. Accordingly, we should take a high point of caring for people’s livelihood and take some measures to develop education, namely, on the basis of economic development, we give priority to economic development. Moreover, we should make the mechanism of garanteeing educaitonal fund to develop compulsory education. Lastly, we have to promote the symmetrical educaiton in oder to share the execellent education resources.