On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the CPC Central Committee recently issued an official document that reintroduces the Chinese Youth Vanguard as a preparatory team for the realization of communism. It stressed that children and youth should “listen to the Party and follow the Party”, and also asked them to go abroad to exchange with other youth organizations. The People’s Daily published the above document on its front page on Thursday, drawing the attention of scholars.
The People’s Daily published the full text of the “Opinions of the Central Government on Comprehensively Strengthening the Work of the Young Pioneers in the New Era” on its front page in the form of an “authorized release” on Thursday (4), reflecting the importance attached to the ideology of educating young people.
The “Opinions” wrote that the Communist Party has always taken the cultivation of children and youth as a strategic and fundamental work related to the red mountains will never change color. The Chinese Youth Pioneer Corps is a group organization of Chinese children and youth founded and led by the Communist Party, a school for children and youth to learn socialism with Chinese characteristics and communism, and a preparatory team for building socialism and communism. The Pioneer Youth League of China leads generations of children and youth to listen to the Party and follow the Party.
Chinese Communist Party documents on the pioneers are rare
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has made rare references to pioneers in its documents over the past four decades. Huang Xiaomin, a human rights activist in Chengdu, told the station Thursday that the authorities’ recent sudden and serious reintroduction of youth management is somewhat unusual in tone and importance: “In the past 50 or 60 years, the attention paid to youth work and the importance of putting it on this kind of agenda has really surpassed any previous ruling period or ruling leadership. Why there is such a problem, first, in the past ten years or so, due to the youth vanguard banner to move the chessboard, more than ten years, they have now become a social youth group, the trust and responsibility of these people, and now the rulers of the requirements of a large gap.”
According to Huang Xiaomin, the current young people like to surf the Internet and webcast, which is far from the requirements of the authorities: “The youth group has become distrustful and unreliable, and cannot take up the heavy responsibility of the future. The authorities suddenly realized that the present young people and the future young people cannot afford to lose such an opportunity (for political Education) again.”
Pioneers will be sent to Hong Kong, Australia, Taiwan and and the Belt and Road countries for exchanges
The opinion issued by the CPC Central Committee also mentioned that the Pioneer Corps should strengthen exchanges and cooperation with children and youth organizations and institutions in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan to enhance the national identity, ethnic identity and cultural identity of children and youth in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. Strengthen the friendly exchanges with children and youth organizations and institutions in countries around the world, especially along the Belt and Road.
Ms. Wang, a resident of Taiyuan, Shanxi, told the station, “After reading the People’s Daily’s opinion on the guidance of the work of the Young Pioneers, my first feeling is absurdity, and my second feeling is anger. The absurdity lies in the fact that this country of 1.4 billion people is facing the same problems as the world today, but he is raising some ideological issues, is he going to rule for the next 100 years? If I were a parent of a student, I would never let my child join the Young Pioneers.”
The Communist Party document, which calls for the management of young people, says that strengthening political enlightenment and values shaping for children and teenagers, guiding them to always be ready to fight for the communist cause, is of great and far-reaching importance for comprehensively building a modern socialist country and realizing the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, for ensuring that the cause of the Party and the people is passed on from generation to generation, and for the red gene to be passed on from generation to generation The significance.
Political education to protect the mountains: new documents and old thinking
The Young Pioneers were first established in 1949, but during the Cultural Revolution the work of the Young Pioneers came to a halt and was replaced by the Red Guards organization until 1978, when the Young Pioneers were rebuilt.
Sun Bin, a scholar at Anhui University, said in an interview with this station that the current political environment is like going back in Time: “The current CCP is very much like the late Qing Dynasty, with the 40-year foreign affairs movement, which led to the economic take-off, but when it comes to political reform, there is a kind of regression, they use such a way to protect the mountain to block progressive reform, the best fate of China is likely to be a Tunisian mutation. may be a Tunisian mutation.”
The authorities’ document, which contains 22 articles, contains nothing more than propaganda of the CCP’s ideology. Sun Bin said the authorities’ attempts at political indoctrination of youth through intensified efforts are not new, but it is difficult to say for now whether they have worked. Because Chinese society and people’s perceptions are completely different today than they were decades ago.
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