Chinese state media outlet People’s Daily reported that since 2019, Chongqing City’s Wulong District People’s Armed Forces Department has partnered with Songping Bayi (August 1, referring to the People’s Liberation Army’s founding day) Primary School to promote national defense education. Through regular visits, officers and civilian staff of the people’s armed forces department host activities like “revolutionary storytelling,” reading of “red books” (books that praise the communist party), and donations of over 1,000 patriotic books. “Every classroom in the school now features a national defense-themed reading corner,” People’s Daily reported.
In 2024, the school was named a National Model School for Defense Education. “Red reading” has become part of its weekly curriculum, with activities like hero storytelling, themed speeches, and film screenings.
Officials from the people’s armed forces department plan to expand these patriotic reading programs across more schools to “deepen awareness of national defense and instill a love for ‘red’ literature.”
Source: People’s Daily, May 9, 2025
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