Curriculum standard is the basic programmatic document of national curriculum, and it is also the basic norm and quality requirement of national basic education curriculum. This curriculum reform will transform the long-used syllabus into curriculum standards, which embodies the basic ideas advocated by the curriculum reform. The formulation of basic education curriculum standards is the core work of basic education curriculum reform. With the joint efforts of nearly 300 experts, the experimental draft of 18 curriculum standard was officially promulgated, marking a new stage of curriculum reform in basic education in China.