The development and implementation of teachers’ professional standards has become an international trend to improve teacher quality, thereby improving teaching, learning, and student achievements. It is also a pathway that many countries have taken in their attempts to improve the professional status of teachers.Whether or not teachers’ professional standards are needed and what kind of teachers’ professional standards are needed in China are still prerequisite questions worthy of consideration by all stakeholders. It is found that the vast majority of primary education teachers acknowledge the potential values of teachers’ professional standards, believing that professional standards will help improve teachers’ status and students’ grades. In addition, they have higher expectations for the former than the latter.In terms of functional orientation, most teachers hope that professional standards first play the function of development orientation, guiding the professional development of teachers. Secondly, professional standards should play the evaluation function, providing a basis for teachers’ evaluation and assessment.China needs teachers’ professional standards, and in the process of developing and implementing them, we must give priority to the function of development orientation while taking into account the function of evaluation.