Beijing Re-Instates Labor Courses to Address Manpower Shortage: Former Professor

Beijing Re-Instates Labor Courses to Address Manpower Shortage: Former Professor
Primary school students harvest new hybrid rice in a paddy field during a themed activity on Aug. 31, 2021 in Chongqing, China. Chen Shichuan/VCG via Getty Images
Sophia Lam
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The Chinese regime’s top educational watchdog has again added labor courses to the curricula of primary and secondary schools in China.

From the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, during the Cultural Revolution period, Chinese students had to work in factories or in the countryside, and the communist authorities called this political education campaign “learning from the workers and peasants.”