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Patriotic Education is a series of patriotic curriculum in China, and it's one of the basic content in Patriotism Education of the People’s Republic of China. After 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Communist party needed to enhance public's patriotic aware. As a result, they developed a new "patriotic education" movement that active till now.[2]However, some researchers argue that patriotic education in China was distorted and became the weapon to control people's mind. One of the phenomenons is the political textbook indicates that "patriotism" means not only love your country but also loyal to the leadership of the Communist party. Related resources:[3]

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Unshakable leadership position of the Communist Party of China.[4]

As states in the preface of Constitution of the People's Republic of China, the four basic principles is considered as the guiding ideology. The four basic principles contains:

1.  Must adhere to the socialist road;

2.  Must adhere to the people's democratic dictatorship ;

3.  Must adhere to the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party ;

4.  Must adhere to Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought .

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Such ideologies like Three Represents Theory have been written into Moral textbooks. Those ideologies exist as compulsory exam point of Senior Secondary School Entrance ExaminationOrdinary Higher Education Enrollment National Examination and Chinese Graduate Entrance Examination . Some scholars believe that "Patriotism in China equal to loyal to the Chinese Communist Party". [6]

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Some dissidents think that patriotism does not mean that the assertion of the party[7].

Implementation Measures for "Patriotism Education Activities"

1.Education system

Ministry of Education declared that "the spirit of patriotism should be implement into the curriculum standards, teaching materials and examinations of moral education, language, history, geography, sports, art and so on, which are included in the practice of education and teaching."[8]

2.New Network Media

As the new media network developing, Ministry of Education recently issued a document requiring all levels of schools to carry out patriotic education, focus on the use of microblogging, WeChat and other new media network, innovation patriotism education and ways to vividly spread patriotism spirit.[9]

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  1. ^ "Patriotism Education of the People's Republic of China".
  2. ^ Anderlini, Jamil (12/23/2012). "Patriotic education distorts China world view (2012), Financial Times". www.ft.com. Retrieved 2017-03-02. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. ^ "Zhao, S. (1998). A state-led nationalism: The patriotic education campaign in post-tiananmen china. Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 31(3), 287-302". Communist and Post-Communist Studies.
  4. ^ Zuo, Peng (2016). "What kind of patriotism does contemporary China need to carry forward?". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. ^ "Four basic principles".
  6. ^ Chen, Xiankui (2014). "Chen Xiankui: Patriotic and love party in China is the same". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. ^ Ji, Wei. "Patriotism China's decades of confusion and tangled".
  8. ^ "Ministry of Education: the integration of patriotism at all levels of education".
  9. ^ "Ministry of Education: focus on the use of new media and other innovative ways of education and patriotism". Xinhua News Agency.