CHINA-INTERNAL: STRENGTHENING PROPAGANDA AND IDEOLOGICAL WORK IN HIGHER EDUCATION

The CCP CC's General Office and the State Council General Office recently issued the “Opinions concerning Further Strengthening and Improving Propaganda and Ideology Work in Higher Education Under New Circumstances”. The full text of the “Opinion” was released by Xinhua on January 19, 2015. It emphatically points out that ideological work is an extremely important work of the Party and country and describes higher education as "a forward battlefield in ideological work". It asserts that it is crucial in "studying, researching and propagating Marxism, fostering and carrying forward the Socialist core value system, and providing talent guarantees and intelligent support for the realization of the Chinese Dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation". The “Opinion” consists of seven parts: I, Strengthening and improving higher education propaganda and ideology work is a major and urgent strategic task; II, guiding ideology, basic principles and main tasks; III, realistically promoting the entry of the theoretical system of Socialism with Chinese characteristics into textbooks, classrooms and minds; IV, Forcefully raising the ideological and political quality of higher education teaching teams; V, incessantly expanding higher education mainstream ideology and public opinion; VI, Striving to strengthen management of the higher education propaganda and ideology battlefield; and VII, Realistically strengthening Party leadership over higher education propaganda and ideology work. The “Opinion” emphasises that, under the firm leadership of the Party Centre, the higher education ideology front persists in the correct political orientation and that the ideological and political quality of teachers is clearly rising. It notes that Party Committees have unified leadership, and that the majority of "teachers and students give their wholehearted support to Party leadership, they have full faith in the Party Centre with Xi Jinping as General Secretary, and are brimming with confidence concerning the undertaking of Socialism with Chinese characteristics and the realization of the Chinese Dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation".





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