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www.chinanews.cn 2006-03-13 15:39:06
Chinanews, Beijing, Mar.13 (By Shen Jia) - Peng Fuchun, representative of
the National People's Congress and professor of philosophy from Wuhan
University, thinks that China cannot wait any longer to improve its
population quality. He proposes that China popularize citizen education
with the core of law, morality and belief among all levels of educational
institutions from elementary schools to universities in an effort to
build up a new image of Chinese people.
"China's population quality has many deficiencies and lags far behind the
global level. However, this is just the surface of things, the roots are
weak consciousness of law, degradation of morality and lack of strongly
held beliefs," said Peng.
In his view, the market economy has introduced many unprecedented
problems into China and the existing mechanisms are unsuitable to solve
these problems.
"The key to manage state affairs is the people, the key to the people is
their minds, and the key to their minds is citizen education," remarked
Peng. "At present, schools mainly teach students languages, knowledge and
political essentials. Some moral cultivation lessons are just pro forma,
and the so-called citizen education is almost a blank."
Peng considers that the appropriate remedy is to open citizen education
courses in all levels of educational institutions from elementary schools
to universities. China should firstly reinforce the spread of laws and
make civil rights and duties prescribed in the constitution a
deep-embedded guideline of people's life. In terms of moral
consciousness, China should convince its people to abide by the moral
baseline of not harming others, and gradually elevate people's moral
standard to the ultimate principle of caring for others.
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