Country looks to raise moral standards of youth
(China Daily)
Updated: 2004-03-23 01:30

China wants to raise the moral standards of the country's 367 million youth.

A plan, released Monday by the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee and the State Council, includes publicity campaigns, educational reforms and investment in projects for people under the age of 18.

The government plans to launch publicity campaigns to teach primary and middle school students to value life, say no to drugs, advocate science and civilization, and oppose superstition.

It promises efforts to correct and help minors with poor records of conduct.

At the same time, resolute measures will be taken to reform curriculum, textbooks and teaching methods in a bid to lessen the academic burden of primary and middle school students, while putting more emphasis on their ideological and moral make-up, their spirit of innovation and capacity to practice, a document outlining the plan say.

The plan also calls for greater efforts to ensure the right to education of the children of the country's 100 million migrant workers.

Large cities will be expected to gradually set up public venues for young people at the city, district and community levels. Medium and small cities will be required to concentrate their efforts on building city-level public venues for them.

Every county should have a comprehensive and multi-functional public venue for young people in three to five years, the document says.

To that end, the central government will offer financial subsidies to central, western and other poor areas for construction of public venues for young people. It will also develop policies to encourage private investment in those projects.

The governments will also increase support for the production and screening of China-made animated films. Internet portals are also urged to develop a better understanding of their social responsibility.

The document calls for tougher measures to censor game software aimed young people, check those with content that may induce young people to violate laws and commit crimes and that show terror and cruelty.

The document vows to implement to the letter regulations that forbid young people under 18 to enter commercial Internet bars and make sure terminals of those bars have filtering software barring pornographic and other unhealthy information.

It also promises to improve administration of commercial public entertainment venues, electronic gaming halls and other social and cultural venues, and make sure areas within 200 metres of primary and middle schools are free of commercial Internet bars and electronic gaming venues.

The plan also calls on governments and Party committees at various levels to attach great importance to improving the ideological and moral standards of young people, incorporate the idea into their overall programme of social and economic development and give priority to it when putting it on their work agenda.

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