Moral Education for Youth Urged in ChinaChina has outlined new plans to improve the moral education for the country's primary and secondary school students, in a bid to ensure the comprehensive quality of its younger generation.This is part of the efforts to increase China's education reform, according to a recent circular jointly issued by the General Office of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council. Moral education for primary and secondary school students should be under the direction of Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory, as well as the related speeches by CPC Central Committee General Secretary Jiang Zemin, the circular said. The circular proposes to establish and perfect a moral assessment system, aiming to reward those outstanding teachers and get rid of those with a low moral character. The departments concerned have been urged to tighten the control on entertainment centers, continue the crackdown on pornographic and illicit publications, and protect teenagers from harmful information on the Internet. |
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