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The COVID-19 epidemic in Gengzi ’s New Year (2020) has been threatening the health of people all over the world and seriously affecting the development of all walks of life. In order to fight the epidemic, China had announced a prohibition on crowding nationwide for the first time among nations (and withdrew this prohibition at the end of April). Although this measure made China the first country to control the epidemic, it has also greatly disrupted the lives of Chinese people. In the field of education, in order to mitigate the course delays, the Ministry of Education of PRC has proposed the slogan “class-suspended but still learning” . Under the slogan, online education has become the main method of teaching in the first half of 2020. As requested by the Chinese Ministry of Education, all schools across the country provide online education services to the students. Since it was the first large-scale application of online education in the field of academic education, unexpected problems were accompanied. Also, schools, teachers, and students felt discomfort from unfamiliarity of the entire online education service system. Yet, many of official media continue to emphasize the advantages of online education, and some of the online platform companies are also actively entering the online education market. In these circumstances, the online education market is greatly expanding. On the other hand, the private media repeatedly criticized the current online education system. In April 2020, the team of Professor Chen Dawei of Chengdu University publicly published a “Survey Report (Online Education Survey in China)” based on a survey of over 3,000 students across the country. This study analyzed based on Chen’s report regarding if online education will truly become the new trend of future education and teaching reform or will only keep its bound as a short-term capital hype. According to the analysis, this study found that the current online education is not satisfactory neither in terms of hardware facilities nor teaching effects. Nevertheless, a large number of profit-seeking capital, universities and scholars are still endorsing the online education for their own benefits and these behaviors have substantially interrupted the healthy development of online education. In order to achieve the healthy development of online education, this study put forward the view that online education must maintain its educational equity, as an auxiliary means of classroom education. On this basis, this study proposes the following two development paths for online education: 1) Auxiliary Development Path. In this path, online education can be used in the high stage of student learning. 2) Basic Development Path. That is to say, online education can provide students with basic concepts for class discussion.