Universities must make ideology classes "trendy" and appealing to young people, Education Minister Chen Baosheng said on Sunday in the latest move to tighten the Communist Party`s grip on the next generation.
Perhaps the approach is outdated, the tools are rather crude and the packaging is not that fashionable.
Chen`s call on the sidelines of key annual political meetings in Beijing follows a meeting in December in which President Xi Jinping ordered tighter ideological control in tertiary ?institutions.
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People are there in body but not in spirit," Chen said.
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