Abstract
The remarkable growth of distance education all over the world has drastically changed the educational system everywhere today. Though it seems to be a relatively new term in China, more and more attention has been turned to this new educational system. As an alternative system in education, it has many characteristics which differ it from traditional education. The special national situations ensure the popularity of distance education in China. However, there still exists a significant gap when compared with the distance education in some west countries. In the following paper, I will discuss this gap from different aspects in detail.