CHINA-INTERNAL: MINISTRY OF EDUCATION EMPHASISES IDEOLOGICAL EDUCATION

On January 16, 2018, China's Ministry of Education issued directions for the further study and implementation of the spirit of the 19th Party Congress and to "further promote Xi Jinping's new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics into the classroom into the brain, and constantly improve the quality and level of ideological and political course construction." On January 16, the Ministry of Education held a meeting in Shanghai to strengthen the new era of Ideological and Political Theory which was attended by Chen Baosheng, Minister and Party Secretary of the PRC Ministry of Education, Yin Hong, Deputy Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee, and Weng Tiehui, Deputy Mayor of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government. Representatives from Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fudan University, Shanghai University Shanghai Jianqiao College, Wuhan University and from Beijing and Tianjin Municipalities attended. Calling for strengthening the party's leadership over ideological and political work, the meeting stressed the need to improve the quality and level of ideological and political education of teachers, teaching materials, teaching methods and mechanisms and emphasise ideas. It noted that more than 90% of college students are satisfied with the ideological and political teaching. Chen Baosheng stressed that after the 19th Party Congress "we have fully realized that colleges and universities should cultivate newcomers who are ideologically qualified, politically reliable and able to serve as their great task of national rejuvenation." 





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