The Chinese regime’s top educational watchdog has again added labor courses to the curricula of primary and secondary schools in China.
From the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, during the Cultural Revolution period, Chinese students had to work in factories or in the countryside, and the communist authorities called this political education campaign “learning from the workers and peasants.”
The regime’s Ministry of Education published in March 2022 “Compulsory Education Labor Courses Standards (2022 Edition),” which will take effect in September. Official online guidelines require labor courses to average no less than one hour per week in class and one week per school year on the job, which means that students in grades 1 to 9 will have to do manual or physical labor for at least one class hour per week starting in the autumn semester….