Abstract: Building a learning society in which all the people learn or even pursue life-long education is a strategic choice that a lot of countries in the world have already made. It is a powerful drive and a reliable guarantee for a country to increase international competitive ability and comprehensive national power. To realize a strategic objective of building a comparatively well-off society in an all-round way, China must keep deepening the institutional reformation of higher educational institutions, strengthen national elementary education and vigorously develop distant network education, etc. and make efforts to set up an ideal learning society.