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Plan: "Vaccinate" kids against corruption
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-03-12 19:32 HANGZHOU -- Having realized
it's an urgent task to foster noble probity among its new generation, the
Chinese government has launched anti-corruption education among kids.
"Anti-corruption should be an indispensable part of moral education in
colleges, secondary and primary schools," said Xu Subin, deputy director with
the Discipline Inspection Committee of Hangzhou, the capital city of east
China's Zhejiang Province.
He said such education has already been carried
out in all primary and elementary schools in a major urban district for a year
in Hangzhou, and was to be spread to all schools beginning last September.
The educational departments of many other cities have begun trial
anti-corruption education among kids.
The Ministry of Education (MOE)
launched the campaign in some big cities and provinces like Beijing, Tianjin,
Zhejiang, Hubei, Shaanxi, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, in the second half of 2005.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee issued an outline
for the establishment of an anti-corruption work mechanism, saying that
anti-corruption education should be oriented towards "the whole Party" and "the
whole society."
Senior leaders, including President and Party General
Secretary Hu Jintao and chief Party discipline inspector Wu Guanzheng, have also
articulated the specific requirements of this task in speeches and reports.
In a survey conducted in 2003 among more than 200 first-grade middle
school students in Hangzhou, the students were asked "What is the major
temptation around you." "Money" and "position promotion" were the two most
popular answers, with many regarding the position of class monitor as one
"superior."
Survey outcome has made educational departments and
government sense the emergency of extending anti-corruption education among
kids.
"The function of school and education should not only promoting
scientific knowledge and advanced culture, but also nurturing healthy and
scientific values", said Ren Jichang, headmaster of Hangzhou Xuejun middle
school.
Although anti-corruption education classes have encountered
criticism as "making kids take pills for the adult's disease," more people have
be aware that corruption has become a public social "villain" globally, and it's
essential to build an effective prevention and punishment mechanism of
corruption, by ways of education and monitoring.
Hou Jingfang, director
of the Zhejiang provincial education bureau, said that youth with
anti-corruption notions will be the most valuable resources for our country and
government.
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