China schools: 'Xi Jinping Thought' introduced into curriculum

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'Xi Jinping thought' will help 'teenagers establish Marxist beliefs', said China's Ministry of Education (MOE) in new guidelines.

School students will now have"Xi Jinping thought" as part of their curriculum"Xi Jinping thought" will help "teenagers establish Marxist beliefs", said the Ministry of Education in new guidelines.This is the latest effort by Mr Xi to consolidate the ruling Chinese Communist Party's role in different areas of society.

In a statement, the MOE said it aimed "to cultivate the builders and successors of socialism with an all-round moral, intellectual, physical and aesthetic grounding". The guidelines include labour education "to cultivate their hard-working spirit" and education on national security.Since then, it's been introduced across some universities and amongst political youth wings holding extra-curricular activities and schools.Call for "complete and deep reform" and "new developing ideas"Emphasise "absolute authority of the party over the people's army"The new guidelines however, will see a much more extensive roll-out.

"Primary schools will focus on cultivating love for the country, the Communist Party of China, and socialism. In middle schools, the focus will be on a combination of perceptual experience and knowledge study, to help students form basic political judgments and opinions," state media outletThe ministry is also working on including themes such as party leadership and national defence education into the curriculum, Tian Huisheng, an education ministry official told Global Times.

But none, besides party founder Mao Zedong, have had their ideology described as "thought", which is at the top of the hierarchy, and only Mao and Deng Xiaoping have had their names attached to their ideologies.

 

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