BEIJING – First inserted in the statute of the Party, then in the Constitution of the People’s Republic, finally taught in the various courses in universities and examined in the dozens of think tanks that have sprung up in Beijing and in the four corners of the country in recent months and years. Now it is no longer enough and what the “leader of the people” thinks must be studied from an early age. For this reason, last night the Ministry of Education decided to insert the “Thought of Xi Jinping on socialism with Chinese characteristics for a New Era “in the school curricula of the whole nation. Since elementary school. And, where possible, touching any subject.
China, the subsidiary arrives in schools to study the thought of the leader Xi Jinping
New guidelines for “establishing the Marxist faith in youth”, strengthening “the determination to listen to and follow the Party”, making sure that the new teaching materials – such as the new “subsidiary” launched last month to promote Xi’s political doctrine – cultivate “patriotic feelings”. At school, the little ones will focus on “love for the country, the Communist Party and socialism”; in middle and high school the children will be “helped to form judgments and political opinions”; while at university the focus will be on the theoretical thinking of the new helmsman.
“Press the first button of life well”, as one of Xi’s maxims says, meaning the importance of making the right decisions right away. The novelty is in fact the desire to extend the study of the president’s thought also to primary education, an absolute first time. And to integrate it into any subject, no longer just as it happened in the past when the theories of various leaders – from Mao Zedong to Deng Xiaoping to Hu Jintao – were taught exclusively in political science courses.
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Fourteen points that revolve around the key concept of the “Chinese dream”: this is Xi’s Thought for a New Era that aims at the rebirth of the nation and the return to the role of world power, leaving behind that “century of humiliations” suffered by the forces foreigners. Having passed the first 100-year turning point of the Party and achieved the goal of a “moderately prosperous society”, the strategy now points to 2049, the centenary of the founding of the Republic, when China must become “a modern, prosperous socialist country. , strong, democratic, culturally advanced and harmonious “.
This vision was presented by the leader himself four years ago, during the opening of the 19th Party Congress. On that day, October 18, 2017, in the Great Hall of the People on Tiananmen Square, in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 48 seconds, Xi illustrated the advent of a new era to the whole of China and the world. The following week, the President’s Thought was incorporated into the CCP statute. The following year also in the country’s Constitution. That the ideological contribution of a secretary is inscribed in the communist pantheon is certainly nothing new, but Xi is the only leader to have his name spelled out next to Mao’s Thought and, one step higher, to Deng’s Theory. A recognition that Jiang and Hu did not have before him.
The lack of a “designated successor” at the last Congress, the elimination of the limit of the double mandate that opens the way to a presidency for life – an event that would have no precedent in post-Maoist China – to have promoted the younger and more loyal levers within the Politburo and the centralization of more and more power in their own hands, well illustrate the role of “new emperor” that Xi is sewing on himself.
Now, after the summer holidays, even the little ones will have to try their hand at his Thought. To bring China into the New Era and make it “prosperous and powerful”. As the new Helmsman teaches.
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