Communist Party officials in Inner Mongolia lambasted for poor handling of education reform
- Region’s party chief Shi Taifeng travels to Xilin Gol league to berate cadres after introduction of Mandarin-language textbooks sparks mass protests
- ‘We had a major problem this time in our promotion of the use of the national curriculum,’ he says
Students staged walkouts and parents pulled their children out of school in opposition to a plan to teach key subjects in Mandarin Chinese rather than their local language.
At a meeting in Xilin Gol league on Monday, Shi Taifeng, the region’s party secretary, told the cadres to reflect on their errors, the official Inner Mongolia Daily newspaper reported.
“[We] are still far from meeting our goal of holding a high quality ‘democratic life meeting’ and the Communist Party Committee [of Xilin Gol] must do more to organise [party members] to study harder and dig deeper into the problems,” he was quoted as saying.
“Both leading cadres and individuals should revise and review the self-reflection materials … and have a more accurate understanding of the problems so [we] can improve our ability to diagnose and resolve future problems,” he said.