BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping has highlighted the strategic and foundational importance of efforts to enhance the intellectual and moral development of minors, calling for coordinated actions to foster a healthy social environment for their growth.
Xi, who also serves as general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made these points in a recent instruction on the matter.
In the instruction, Xi emphasized the need to establish a cooperative education framework involving schools, families and society at large, aimed at guiding minors to form high ideals, embrace core socialist values, and cultivate sound moral character and positive behavioral habits.
He also stressed the importance of training a new generation of young people who are well-rounded in moral integrity, intellectual competence, physical fitness, aesthetic appreciation and practical skills, enabling them to advance socialism and carry forward the socialist cause.
Xi’s directive was shared at a symposium on improving the intellectual and moral standards of minors held in Beijing on Monday.
Cai Qi, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and of the CPC Central Committee Secretariat, attended the symposium and delivered remarks.
Cai underscored the need to reinforce family education, consistently expand access to high-quality cultural products and services for children, and enhance minors’ digital and internet literacy.
He also called for accelerating the establishment of a comprehensive mental health service system for minors, strengthening protections for young people, and intensifying efforts to prevent juvenile delinquency.
The symposium was chaired by Li Shulei.
Cai Qi, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and a member of the CPC Central Committee Secretariat, delivers a speech at a symposium on raising the intellectual and moral standards of minors in Beijing, capital of China. An important instruction by Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, was conveyed at the symposium.
