Politician urges bigger party role in higher education

Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping has urged the country's higher education institutions to give Communist Party branches a bigger role in the education and management of faculties and students, reports Xinhua.

Xi, also president of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee, made the remarks while inspecting Peking University, Renmin University and Tsinghua University on Tuesday and Wednesday. “A Party branch is a basic unit for college education and the management of party members...Grassroots Party organisations should be assured of playing a vigorous part in more aspects of higher education," Xi said while visiting Peking University.

At Renmin University, Xi visited the education and research centre for Karl Marx's Das Kapital and attended a seminar where new student party members discussed Marxist classics. Xi called on higher education institutions to guide faculties and students to grasp the Marxist worldview and methodology and build up confidence in socialism with Chinese characteristics.
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