Throughout over sixty years of communist rule, hundreds of millions of Chinese children have joined the Communist Youth League or Communist Young Pioneers, upon entry to which the child pledges him or herself to a lifelong struggle for the sake of communism and the Communist Party.
Despite the results of a survey the Communist Youth League conducted of nearly 800,000 elementary school students across 1,093 Beijing schools, whether or not those children actually care about this struggle is another question.
The Youth League survey, according to state-run news Xinhua, showed that out of the 789,300-strong sample size, 96% percent had “full faith in the Party and in the country’s development,” while a similar number were proud to be Chinese. Nearly 84% reported feeling proud when singing the national anthem.
Students allegedly had a “sense of belonging to the Young Pioneers of the Chinese Communist Party,” the Xinhua report says.
