The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities sparked public protests last year by forcing the teaching of Chinese in Inner Mongolia, but recently, officials in Inner Mongolia announced that starting this fall, three subjects will be taught in Chinese in some classes in ethnic language teaching schools across the region, despite continued public opposition. Previously, Mongolian autonomous region chairman Bu Xiaolin suddenly collapsed while giving a report at a meeting and has not shown up so far, leading to speculation about the inside story.
According to the Inner Mongolia Daily, the General Office of the Communist Party Committee and the General Office of the Government of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region recently issued the “Implementation Plan for the Implementation of the Unified Textbook for Three Subjects in the Region’s Ethnic Language Teaching Schools to Comprehensively Strengthen the Education and Teaching of the Common State Language and Script”.
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Department of Education Supervision Office Director Yang Dongmei said, the program requires, from the fall semester this year, the region’s ethnic language teaching schools in elementary school in the first and second grades all use the national unified “morality and the rule of law”, “language” teaching materials, and the use of common national The language script Chinese teaching.
Yang Dongmei said that the first and second grades of junior high school also use the national unified “morality and the rule of law”, “language”, “history” teaching materials, also in the national language teaching. In 2023, the junior high school graduates in the examination (graduation, promotion test), the above three subjects should also be used to answer the paper in the national language.
Yang Dongmei said, from the fall semester of 2022, including the ethnic language schools in the region, all high school first grade, to use the unified “ideology and politics”, “language”, “history “In 2025, when high school graduates take the college entrance examination, all three subjects will be answered in the national common language and script.
The Central News Agency cited analysis that the policy echoes official practices in Tibet and Xinjiang, with the aim of allowing ethnic minorities to be Sinicized.
However, some observers believe that under the suppression of the Communist Party’s red regime, the authorities are pushing Chinese language education to facilitate ideological brainwashing and eliminate minority cultures, which is not Sinicization at all, but ideological “reification.
Since last August, the Chinese Communist Party has been forcing local minority schools in Inner Mongolia to teach their core curriculum in Chinese instead of Mongolian, causing discontent among Inner Mongolians who are worried that this move will erase minority cultures. Tens of thousands of people took part in the protests and strikes, a rare occurrence in Inner Mongolia. The authorities cracked down on the protests, with rumors that some 5,000 people had been arrested and nine Mongolians had committed suicide.
The authorities have continued to push for stability and “accountability” of local officials. Inner Mongolia authorities have removed Hou Yuan, head of the regional education department, and Bao Zhenyu, secretary-general of the regional government, from their posts. Hong Kong media sources revealed that Hou Yuan and Bao Zhenyu were only the first batch to be removed from their posts, and it is believed that there will be other officials in Inner Mongolia who will be held accountable, and even provincial and ministerial-level cadres will be held responsible for the incident.
The video circulating on the Internet shows that the chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Bu Xiaolin, is suspected to have fainted at the podium during a report at the NPC meeting in Inner Mongolia on January 26, sparking speculation.
Bu Xiaolin comes from a red Family, and his grandfather is Ulanhu. It has been reported that Wulanfu, himself a loyal follower of the Chinese and Russianized Communist Party, was one of the first senior local Communist Party officials to be deposed during the Cultural Revolution, despite being a central-level official.
In this case, officials have repeatedly reported that Bu Xiaolin visited several places in Inner Mongolia to “investigate the promotion of the use of the national unified language textbooks,” but have not made a specific statement.
According to an article in Free Asia, Bu Xiaolin, who is a descendant of the “Mongolian King”, has no choice but to “play deaf and dumb” to the Xi Jinping administration’s current efforts to undermine the status of the national language by forcing the teaching of Chinese. He has to “play deaf and dumb”.
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