China says its universities must champion core socialist values
BEIJING — China’s leadership has issued guidelines requiring universities to strengthen ideological controls in classrooms and demand that professors champion Marxism, traditional culture and socialist core values.
Students walk down a flight of stairs outside a dining hall at the campus of North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power in Zhengzhou, Henan province, January 17, 2015. Photo: Reuters
BEIJING — China’s leadership has issued guidelines requiring universities to strengthen ideological controls in classrooms and demand that professors champion Marxism, traditional culture and socialist core values.
The official Xinhua News Agency reported late yesterday (Jan 19) that orders from top officials within the Communist Party and the powerful State Council, or Cabinet, require that ideological work be seen as a strategic project in the country’s education system. It also said universities should supervise student associations.
Last month, Xinhua quoted President and Communist Party leader Xi Jinping calling for the party to enhance its ideological controls over universities.
In November, a party-run newspaper in northeastern China reported that it had sent journalists to monitor college classrooms across China and had found professors who criticised founding father Mao Zedong and the party. AP
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