When Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC), attended the deliberations of the Inner Mongolia delegation of the National People’s Congress (NPC) on March 5, he called for the popularization of the “national common language script (Chinese characters),” the full implementation of “national textbooks” and the in-depth implementation of “Education on the sense of Chinese community. The Chinese community awareness education.
According to a comprehensive media report on March 5, Xi also called for “starting with youth education in particular” to guide the majority of cadres and masses to fully understand the Communist Party’s ethnic policy and “establish a correct view of the country, history, ethnicity, Culture and religion.
Xi Jinping also asked to enhance the identity of all ethnic groups with “the great motherland, the Chinese nation, Chinese culture, the Communist Party of China and socialism with Chinese characteristics”.
Officials in Inner Mongolia required local minority schools to teach their core curriculum in Chinese rather than Mongolian in early September last year, sparking discontent among Mongolians who feared the new curriculum would obliterate minority cultures, followed by tens of thousands of people participating in a rare local protest and strike.
The official of Inner Mongolia announced last month, despite the opposition, that from this fall, some classes in the region’s ethnic language schools will be taught in Chinese for three subjects; it also recently passed the “Regulations on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress”, which will promote ethnic unity and progress in all aspects and is expected to come into effect on May 1.
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