Recently, a photo of a group of Hong Kong university students wearing “Eighth Route Army” uniforms while visiting the CCP’s “Holy Red Shrine” has been circulating on the Internet for some time, attracting much attention from netizens and the media alike. However, just now, the said WeChat articles and pictures on the website of the HKU Beijing Center have all been deleted. Some commentators pointed out that such an act of expressing loyalty is not only “unsafe” but may even be discarded soon after being used by the CCP, a fate similar to that of China’s three Internet giants.
The official WeChat account of the HKU Beijing Center published an article titled “China’s Power to Revitalize the Rural Areas via the Qing Lan Project” and said, “From Aug. 10 to Aug. 14, the sixth module of the second class from the Qing Lan Project of the HKU New Leaders Program together with HKU’s rural revitalization practice is successfully concluded in Shaanxi.“ It praised the ”students’“ effort put into the course, and also the activities they have undertaken in the ”red revolutionary shrine“ in Yan‘an and Xi’an. From all those activities the students had ”planted solid national sentiments,“ and learned about the ”great” poverty alleviation program through the scientific research and industrial achievement under the CCP.
