China Introduces Xi Jinping Ideology Into Schools Curriculum

China will introduce the political ideology of President Xi Jinping in its national curriculum.

The Ministry of Education (MOE) in new guidelines, said “Xi Jinping thought” will help “teenagers establish Marxist beliefs”.

The ideology will be integrated from primary school up to university.

This is the latest effort by President Xi to consolidate the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s role in different areas of society.

In a statement, the MOE said it aimed to cultivate the builders and successors of socialism with an all-round moral, intellectual, physical and aesthetic grounding.

The guidelines include labour 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.

Since then, it’s been introduced across some universities and amongst political youth wings holding extra-curricular activities and schools.

Previous Chinese leaders have come up with their own political ideologies which have been incorporated into the party’s constitution or thinking.
But none, besides party founder Mao Zedong, have had their ideology described as “thought”, which is at the top of the hierarchy, and only Mao and Deng Xiaoping have had their names attached to their ideologies.