Xi stresses strategic importance of work to raise minors’ moral standards

BEIJING, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping has stressed the work to raise the intellectual and moral standards of minors, noting that it should be carried out as a strategic and fundamental task. He also called for joint efforts to create a sound social environment for minors’ healthy growth.

Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks in a recent instruction on the issue.

In the instruction, Xi underlined the importance of a collaborative education mechanism among schools, families and society in relevant work, to guide the minors to establish lofty ideals, practice core socialist values and develop good moral qualities and behavioral habits.

Efforts should also be made to nurture a new generation of capable young people with sound moral grounding, intellectual ability, physical vigor, aesthetic sensibility and work skills, who will fully develop socialism and carry forward the socialist cause, according to Xi’s instruction.

Xi’s instruction was conveyed at a symposium on raising the intellectual and moral standards of minors held in Beijing on Monday.

Cai Qi, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and a member of the CPC Central Committee Secretariat, attended the meeting and delivered a speech.

Cai stressed the need to strengthen family education, make sustained efforts to provide children with high-quality cultural products and services, and improve minors’ internet literacy.

He also urged faster progress in the development of a mental health service system for minors, as well as stronger protection of minors and prevention of juvenile delinquency.

The symposium was presided over by Li Shulei.