Photographer: Nicolas Asfouri / AFP / Getty Images
Photographer: Nicolas Asfouri / AFP / Getty Images
Chinese schoolchildren are following the line of intensifying the study of President Xi Jinping’s teachings ahead of the celebration of the centenary of the Communist Party government in July.
The party’s central committee on Wednesday released new guidelines to boost ideological education among young Chinese pioneers, a national youth organization to which it is affiliated. The guidelines said that all elementary school children and the first two high school students should have one class a week to conduct Young Pioneers activities, and that basic teacher training materials should be thought of by Xi.
Members of the young pioneers should be taught to “keep in mind” Xi’s teachings and “do what Xi has indicated,” the guidelines said.
In China, everyone, from diplomats to executives to science fiction writers, is under pressure to incorporate the broad and often fuzzy principles of “Xi Thought” into their policies, as part of an effort to elevate them. lo alongside Maoism and help consolidate the president’s effort to advance cement control.
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The document also called for teaching children that “today’s happy life ultimately comes from the right leadership of the party,” as well as “from the superiority of our socialist system.”
Strengthening “political enlightenment and values formation” among children is of strategic importance to ensure that “red genes are passed down from generation to generation,” the party spokesman said on his front page on Thursday. , the Daily Daily, which cites the guidelines.
Another state-backed newspaper, the China Daily, cited the guidelines in piece entitled “The Cultivation of Children Seen as Strategic.” The newspaper wrote that children are the future of the nation and the Communist Party, which had always made cultivating the country in a good way a “strategic” and “fundamental” task.
The role of the pioneers
The guidelines come when Xi visited a village in southwestern Guizhou Province that, according to state media, successfully eradicated poverty. Posing photographs with Miao ethnic minority people dressed in traditional clothing, Xi sent greetings to all Chinese before the lunar new year, which this year falls on February 11th. The president also inspected the clean-up work on a previously polluted river.
Young Chinese Pioneers was founded in 1949 and includes almost all children in China between the ages of six and 14. He has played an “irreplaceable role” in guiding generations of children to follow the party’s instructions, according to the guidelines.
Although it was not clear what the current total membership was, the 2007 data put the figure at around 130 million.
The guidelines also called for the promotion of exchanges between the continent’s pioneering youth and children’s organizations in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, to enhance the “national, ethnic and cultural identity” of young people in these areas.
– With the assistance of Colum Murphy and Jing Li