According to Baidu Encyclopedia, the reception education system is an administrative compulsory education measure to focus on legal education and moral education for prostitutes, organize participation in productive labor, and check and treat sexually transmitted diseases. According to the State Council's Measures for the Education of Prostitutes and Whores, public security organs can take a series of administrative compulsory measures to restrict personal freedom, such as compulsory education and labor, for a period of six months to two years.

The reception and education center was not established out of thin air, but was founded on the basis of learning from the successful experience of the prostitute reception and rehabilitation center in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. In the early days of liberation, the reformatory successfully reformed a large number of prostitutes, explored a set of successful reform models, and accumulated a lot of valuable experience. The reception education system in the new era is the continuation and development of the reception and reform institutions after the founding of New China, and it is constantly innovating with the development of the times. 1984+ 10 The Shanghai Public Security Bureau first set up a prostitution reception and education center to meet the needs of prostitution prohibition.