Chinese official sets patriotic tone for National Day celebration
XINING. July 8. KAZINFORM Senior Chinese leader Li Changchun Wednesday called for redoubled efforts to improve education on patriotism and ethnic unity, to create a favorable atmosphere for the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Kazinform refers to Xinhua.
Li, a member of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Political Bureau, made the remarks during a three-day visit to the northwestern province of Qinghai.
He urged the country's publicity departments to focus on the accomplishments of China in the past six decades since the founding of new China, to enhance patriotism and loyalty to the CPC and socialism among the public.
In regions inhabited by ethnic minorities, patriotic education must be combined with education on ethnic unity, he said, to let the public understand that ethnic unity comes with blessings while disunity with woes, Kazinform cites Xinhua. See www.chinaview.cn for full version.