江西是个农业省，也是经济欠发达的省份。由于多方面的原因，江西的高等教育、职业教育也欠发达，相对而言，基础教育则具有相当规模，居全国中等以上的发展水平。因此，发展江西经济，需要更多地发挥普通中学教育为经济发展服务的功能。而传统的普通中学教育为经济发展服务的 Jiangxi is an agricultural province and an economically underdeveloped province. Due to various reasons, higher education and vocational education in Jiangxi are also underdeveloped. In contrast, basic education has a considerable scale and ranks above the average level of development in the whole country. Therefore, in order to develop Jiangxi economy, it is necessary to give more play to the function of ordinary secondary education in serving economic development. The traditional general secondary education serves economic development