UNICEF and the Ministry of Education introduced the Social Emotional Learning (SEAL) project in 2011 and subsequently piloted it in five counties in five provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions in Guizhou, Yunnan, Chongqing, Guangxi and Xinjiang. With international technical support from the Centre for Research on Learning Behaviour (NCfLB, Northampton UK), the project draws on the experiences of the SEAL project in the UK and other countries, and a technical team from Beijing Normal University and experts from the project areas combined Chinese cultural values and traditions with the realities of basic education in China to build A theoretical framework with Chinese characteristics.