China’s communist cadre cradle pledges not to rock party boat after teachers rapped for ‘spreading Western values’
Top academy for officials to ensure teachers stay within lines, half a year after Xi Jinping took it to task over reckless comments about party and state policies
A senior official at the top academy for Communist Party cadres has pledged that the school will strictly toe the party line after its teachers were criticised by President Xi Jinping for spreading “Western capitalist values”.
“The Central Party School is no ordinary school,” school vice-president Xu Weixin said on Thursday. “We will be consistent with the party Central Committee, consciously safeguard its authority and maintain the reputation of the school when expressing our opinions in school lectures and in public.”
The display of loyalty came after Xi demanded in December that the school make improvements “under the new circumstances”, a reference to challenges facing the nation at home and abroad.
In a transcript of his speech published in the flagship Qiushi journal in May, Xi took the school to task, saying some teachers were spreading Western capitalist values and making reckless comments about party and state policies in their lectures.
Xi, who was the school’s president from 2007 to 2012, demanded that teachers stop finding fault, grumbling and making cynical remarks about the authorities’ major policies and that they ensure their teaching was in line with Central Committee directives.
We will lead the officials who receive training here so that what they learn is consistent with the Central Committee
