BEIJING – China will introduce the political ideology of President Xi Jinping in its national curriculum.
“Xi Jinping thought” will help “teenagers establish Marxist beliefs,” said the Ministry of Education (MOE) in new guidelines.
The ideology will be integrated from primary school up to university.
This is the latest effort by Xi to consolidate the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s role in different areas of society.
According to MOE, this aimed “to cultivate the builders and successors of socialism with an all-round moral, intellectual, physical and aesthetic grounding”.
The guidelines include labor education “to cultivate their hard-working spirit” and education on national security.
In 2018, China’s top body enshrined “Xi Jinping Thought” into the constitution.(BBC)
