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Great attention is paid to higher education. There is a large network of universities and institutes. In Peking, Tientsin and Shanghai alone there are more than 50 higher educational institutions...

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Beginning with 1949-1950, some changes were made in the educational plans of the higher institutions obligatory teaching of political economy, dialectical and historical materialism, the history of the Chinese revolution,

It is the foundations of people's democracy and of Russian was introduced. difficult however to provide professors, textbooks and aids for the time being in all these branches.

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In order to train the cadres needed by the People's Government more

the National and the quickly, in 1949 two special universities were opened North-China University. Each of them has 500 students and a course lasting 4 to 6 months. These universities, which essentially are higher short-term

A courses, train administrative officials and various state institutions.

This year,

in accordance juridical institute was also opened on October 1, 1949. with the decision of the State Administrative Council a new university is being established in Peking, the task of which includes the training of cadres for the national economy and for various spheres of construction in new China. university will have economic, planning, credit-finance, cooperative, commercial, juridical, diplomatic and administrative faculties. 2,500 persons are being admitted for the first course. Concurrently four month courses in the above mentioned branches are being opened under the university to re-train specialists already working in economic institutions.

One of the main problems of higher education is to fill the higher educational institutions with working class and peasant youths. At present among the students of the old universities and other higher educational in- stitutions, the children of peasants, workers and of the petty bourgeoisie number a few individuals. In order to change the social composition of the pupils, the Central People's Government intends to organise working-class- peasant faculties. They will train working class and peasant youth for the higher educational institutions.

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Large and important questions are decided by the Ministry of Education in reforming the old Kuomintang higher educational institutions, which in the

To obtain that past were utterly imbued with Kuomintang and American ideology. these institutions should answer to the demands of new China can only be done on condition that the doors of the higher educational institutions are opened for the sons and daughters of Chinese workers and working peasants...

The great Chinese people, revolutionary, hard-working and gifted, having thrown off the yoke of the American imperialists and the Chiang Kai-shek

Wherever we went in China we met with band, has squared its mighty shoulders. the warm desire of the people to learn, to acquire knowledge. Everywhere we saw the immense desire to follow the path of the Soviet Union, to study the treasure-house of its wealth of experience, to learn from the high examples of the most advanced and progressive Soviet culture, to effect a cultural revo- lution in accordance with the great ideas of Lenin and Stalin...

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The duty of educators in the Soviet Union is to give the Chinese people and its intellectuals active friendly aid in solving the complex, tasks ahead of them in the cultural field. (pages 60 to 67) (Condensed text)

"Public Education" No. 2.