CHINA-INTERNAL: CHINA TO BUILD WORLD CLASS UNIVERSITIES WITH CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS
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While inpecting Peking University (PKU) on May 2, 2018, Chinese President Xi Jinping called for building world-class universities with Chinese characteristics to nurture people well-prepared to join the socialist cause. Xinhua reported him as saying 'Noting that the development of universities and the nation complement each other, Xi stressed that more efforts should be spent on nurturing world-class universities, but foremost with Chinese characteristics.' He said innovation was the most powerful engine of development and most essential element of a country's national strength and core competitiveness. Xinhua added that PKU is the cradle where Marxism started to spread in China. It has set up the first school of Marxism in the country in recent years and also in January established the research institute on Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism With Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. He said a university's school of Marxism should follow a clear-cut political orientation and teaching principles -- summarized as "taking Marxism as its surname and talking about Marxism." Xi Jinping said "Marxism should be consolidated as the guiding ideology and promoted in campuses, classrooms, and among students".
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