Beijing – Chinese pupils returned to school Wednesday with new textbooks peppered with “Xi Jinping thought,” as the Communist Party aims to extend his personality cult to children as young as 7 and rear a new generation of patriots.
The education ministry has said it will incorporate Xi’s vaguely defined political ideology into the national curriculum, from primary schools to graduate programs, at the start of the new school year Wednesday.
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