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China’s Communist Party revisits the past to regroup for future
- Xi Jinping launches national campaign to ‘learn lessons’ from history as party’s centenary approaches
- Education drive meant to renew the party’s legitimacy, analyst says
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A new campaign to educate China about Communist Party history is meant to be a rallying point to consolidate support for its policies and loyalty to the leadership, according to analysts.
President Xi Jinping, who will oversee the campaign, launched the project on Saturday in an address to dozens of top party officials in Beijing, urging the officials to learn from the past – a reference to party loyalty.
“[We] must guide the entire party to learn positive and negative lessons from its history, and resolutely follow the central leadership’s line,” Xi said, adding that “party unity” was the “life of the party”.
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Provincial party leaders across the country would establish new agencies to enforce the campaign, Xi said.
He said the campaign would also target the public with “innovative means” such as films and television programmes.
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Xi also reminded the cadres that it was even more important find to “wisdom” in the party’s past.
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