Abstract: As China’s basic education curriculum reform element, including the provision, the trial and the use of textbooks in primary and secondary sectors of the system is also facing new changes.“Taking history as a mirror can know the rise and fall.”Looking back from the 1950s to 80s，that in primary and secondary schools nationwide use the reunification materials of the People’s Education Press, and then to 90s，that six sets of planning Teaching materials, teaching a total of more than 100 species of Billing Division of the more than 3,000 copies which is after selection adopted by the Examination Committee  in 2001 to  implement the new curriculum, textbooks are reflected in China's system of science and gradually mature.

Key words: textbook policy, People&rsquo, s Education Press, basic education curriculum reform