Chinese President Xi Jinping chaired a symposium in Beijing on March 18, of teachers of politics and ideology from around the country where he delivered an "important" speech. Speaking at the symposium, the official news agency quoted Xi Jinping as saying education is all about training good Communists. He said “[We] must cultivate generation after generation of useful talents who support the leadership of the Communist Party of China and the socialist system of our country and are determined to struggle for their entire lives for the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics. We should improve the curriculum system, solve the problem of coordination between various ideological and political courses, and encourage famous teachers to give lectures in ideological and political classes.” Xi Jinping emphasised that "young people are the future of the motherland and the hope of the nation. Our party is determined to be a great cause for the Chinese nation. It must cultivate generations of useful talents who have supported the leadership of the Communist Party of China and the socialist system of our country and determined to fight for the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics. On this fundamental issue, it must be clear and unambiguous. This requires us to educate and train the next generation of education, from the school, from the cradle." Others who spoke at the symposium were: Lin Tai, a retired professor at the Marxist College of Tsinghua University; Liu Jianjun, a professor at the Marxist School of Renmin University of China; Chen Guo, a senior lecturer at the School of Marxism at Fudan University; Xu Chuan, an associate professor at the Marxism Institute of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Marx, Xinjiang Agricultural Vocational and Technical College; Professor Wang Xueli of the Institute of theology; Wang Liang, a second-level teacher of Xinghua Primary School in Xi'an; Wu Youcun, a senior teacher of Wuhan Liberation Middle School; and Chen Mingqing, a senior teacher of the First Affiliated Middle School of East China Normal University. Ding Xuexiang, Sun Chunlan, Chen Xi, Huang Kunming, You Quan and He Lifeng attended the forum.

 (Comment: Students at all levels are required to take political thought classes that focus on the Chinese Communist canon of Marx, Lenin, Mao, Deng, and now Xi Jinping.)