Work in progress: Dialectical relationship of lifelong learning and continuing education

Lifelong learning and continuing education are the need of social development and the improvement required by society. This paper gives them a new relationship that the two is dialectical unity, namely they are different, related and mutually developed. Continuing education should be carried out throughout people´s whole life via various kinds of ways to promote lifelong learning. This paper states from three aspects that are the connotation of lifelong learning and continuing education, the dialectical relationship between the two, and unity of development.