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 Central Government’s Opinions 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). To reflect the importance of the ideology of Education for 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 tone and importance of the authorities’ recent serious reiteration of youth management is somewhat unusual: “It is indeed more important than in the past 50 or 60 years since the ruling regime, and the attention paid to youth work and the importance placed on this agenda is indeed more than in any previous ruling period or ruling leadership. Why there is such a problem, first, in the past ten years or so, because in the youth vanguard banner to move the chessboard, for 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’s preference for Internet access and webcasting is far from what the authorities want: “The youth group has emerged as distrustful and unreliable, unable to take on the heavy responsibilities of the future. They suddenly realize 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 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’s 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 large country of 1.4 billion people is facing the same problems as the world today, but he is taking some ideological issues, is he still ready 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 and new documents old thinking
The Young Pioneers were first established in 1949, and their work came to a halt during the Cultural Revolution, replaced by the Red Guards, until 1978 when they were rebuilt, and now there are more than 100 million Young Pioneers.
Sun Bin, a scholar at Anhui University, said in an interview with the station that the current political environment is like going back to the past: “The current CCP is very much like the late Qing Dynasty, with the 40-year foreign affairs movement, which led to the entire economic takeoff, but when it comes to the reform of the political system, there is a kind of regression, they use such a way to protect the rivers and mountains to block progressive reforms, and the best Chinese fate is likely may be a sudden change in Tunisia.”
The authorities’ document, which contains 22 articles, contains nothing more than propaganda of the CCP’s ideology. Sun Bin said that the authorities’ attempts at political indoctrination of youth through intensification 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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