The Second Meeting of the Tenth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) opened in Beijing at 3:00 P.M. on March 3, 2004, and closed on the afternoon of March 12. The Second Meeting of the Tenth National People's Congress (NPC) opened on March 5, 2004, in Beijing and closed on the afternoon of March 14 after successfully completing all the items on its agenda, passing an amendment of the Constitution of the People's Republic of China, approving the report on the work of the government, and voting on and passing relevant resolutions. Based on the special reports on the two meetings, carried in the newspaper "China Education", and on the proposals at the CPPCC meeting, the authors of this article have summarized the major issues of education in 2004 for which NPC deputies and the members of the CPPCC members have shown concern under eight different topics.