进入９０年代后，与多种所有制经济的迅速发展相适应，上海市委和各级政府本着“积极支持，有序规范”的原则，促使上海基础教育办学体制改革得到进一步发展。截止到１９９９学年度，上海基础教育阶段已有各类民办中小学（包括一部分公立转制试验学校） １７０所，全市在民办中 Since the 1990s, in line with the rapid development of a variety of ownership-based economy, the Shanghai municipal government and all levels of government, based on the principle of “active support and orderly regulation,” have furthertened the reform in the system of running a school for basic education in Shanghai. As of the 1999 academic year, there were 170 various types of private primary and secondary schools (including a number of public transforms test schools) in Shanghai's basic education stage.