Xi Jinping’s New Era Socialism with Chinese Characteristics Button the first button of life. Grandpa Xi Jinping said that developing values is like buttoning buttons on clothes. If you button the first button wrong, the remaining buttons will be buttoned wrong from the beginning. The study book is the first button in the life of the Chinese people. Hiho, everyone, I am Zhiqi. Do you know that starting from the new semester in September last year, students in China from elementary school to senior school have been required to learn this study thought today ? Curious Qiqi , we are here to unbox the textbook of Xi Jinping’s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. Today, I also invited Yangyang, a former teacher, to unbox it with me. Hello everyone, I am Yangyang. But before I start, let me know. We are entering a period of business service , but before we start today, I would like to ask Zhiqi to introduce to you what exactly a study book is. The study book is actually their new textbook. In China, in August last year, the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China announced that Xi Jinping’s new The Introduction to Socialist Thought with Chinese Characteristics in the Times has been released on the 28th and will become a textbook from primary school to university from September. Many Chinese netizens heard the news and were glad that they graduated early . Some even ridiculed that Xi Jinping Thought must be absorbed into the brain, heart and soul. When I saw the news, I thought wow, that ’s cool, because I used to find it hard to understand just when I heard about socialism with Chinese characteristics. Now it’s even longer: Xi Jinping’s Chinese Characteristics for a New Era Socialism Then I felt very, very curious about how China would interpret this matter , so at that time we always wanted to buy their textbooks, unbox them and have a look. Then we ordered them twice and then ordered them from Taobao , but it didn’t work. It couldn't be delivered. I don't know why it seemed to be stuck somewhere. It just didn't come. Obviously we had ordered it, but it couldn't be cut . But it didn't matter. Anyway, we finally borrowed these textbooks through some connections. It has It is divided into lower elementary school version and upper elementary school version. The junior high school version and their high school version can tell you about their cover design. You can see that it is very bright and sunny . And they all have slogans . You should first look at the elementary school slogan. What is the meaning of buttoning the first button in life ? You can open the 47-page textbook and it will tell you that there are so many pages on page 47. Grandpa Xi Jinping said that the cultivation of values is like buttoning the first button when wearing clothes. If you button the wrong buttons, the remaining buttons will be buttoned wrongly. You have to button the buttons of life correctly from the beginning. No wonder education should be like this from the lower grades. There is no mistake. The study book is the first button of the Chinese people’s life . And it says the relationship between democracy and freedom . It's their 12 core socialist values. No matter which book it is in elementary school, lower grade, upper grade, junior high school or high school, it has exactly the same 12 words. I was very shocked. Wait a minute, I see it now . When this thing is embodied in front of your eyes. You still think this is too much nonsense , and when you see Grandpa Xi Jinping, I am really the General Secretary of the Party. Grandpa Xi Jinping always cares about the people. He often comes to the people to care about everyone's lives. On the dock where the homes of ethnic minorities are exposed to wind and rain. I think the image of grandpa is very clear in this book in the lower grades of elementary school. It makes him very kind. You see , even when he asked you to fasten the first button, he still felt it. It's the way the grandpa next door reminds you. Come back, we can see the senior grade. It tells you that happiness is the result of struggle. You should start struggling from elementary school and you should work hard and work hard. Once you open it, you can see it full of Xi Jinping. At first glance , the textbooks for lower grades are relatively easy to read, but starting from junior high school, you can find that the content has increased a lot and they look more and more like the textbooks we are familiar with. From elementary school to junior high school, there is a class called Morality and Rule of Law within one week. There are two classes, which are a bit similar to our social studies class. There are about two social studies classes a week. When I get to junior high school, I feel like I start to have things to memorize. There are a lot of slogans and I start to integrate them with history. I have already started to talk about it here. What kind of wars in the United States have made the world very uneasy? Yes, yes, there are a lot of contents that you may be a little familiar with. Here is a sentence from Xi Jinping . We must hold high the banner of peace, development, cooperation and win-win, and unswervingly follow the path of peaceful development . You said When you talk about it, you find an important point. Look through each book and look at it. There are many golden quotes in each book. But if you look carefully, who speaks each golden sentence, who speaks it is Xi Jinping , and it is all It has a lot of these golden sayings. You look at them again and again. Everyone, I don’t have a set now. I am really turning over here . It is on every page , and the golden sayings on every page are all correct and correct spoken by Xi Jinping. Oh my God , but to be honest, if I were a student, I would have read so many golden quotes since I was a child and would have thought that Xi Jinping is really a very powerful person. It would be very painful to doubt him. Then there is another thing that I think is very interesting . They will help children construct an ideal child. What should their dreams look like? Is this reasonable ? Suddenly it seems very reasonable. Let’s take a look at this page. It says that everyone has their own dreams. Every dream has its own set of opposites . Future pursuits and beautiful hopes. As long as we have dreams in our hearts, we will have power under our feet, and the future will have direction. I think this is quite reasonable, but look at these templates. What are the dreams of the children? The first one is my dream is to be a doctor . After treating many people , my dream is to invent a new spaceship with my friends to travel to Mars. Then I want to be a soldier to defend the motherland. Then I want to design a device that can protect people from wind and rain, so that people can work in the fields less hard. My dream is to Teachers should care for every student , but I think we Taiwanese people don’t talk so much when talking about dreams. How beneficial you will be to the country and society, it will be easier to create some connections between me and the community . I also took a look and they actually put some videos on the Internet. They now emphasize that some people say they want to be programmers or they want to invent chips that can make mobile phones more advanced. Benefiting more people can make China stronger. I think China seems to want to cultivate technical talents from an early age . Let’s assume that everyone is curious and wants to order a copy. Which of these four books do you think ? It is most worth unboxing and buying it. I think if you can, it is worth reading the upper grade version. Because after reading these four books, I feel that the upper grade version is most like building a scaffolding . If the lower grade version is After laying the foundation first, I tell you that the buttons must be fastened first. We are going to read what Grandpa Xi said. Then the senior class will build the scaffolding . After their junior high school and high school , it is a bit like deepening the content of the original scaffolding. So in fact , you only need to read the senior year book to know what values they roughly value. I think what is surprising to me is that there are many values that Taiwan also values in it , such as democracy, law, and national defense . Do China and Taiwan value the same things? After all, we are of the same origin. It is our motherland. This is very reasonable. We can take a look at how it presents the democracy, law and national defense that belong to China . For example, page 32 In some places, they say that all their power belongs to the people. Matters are discussed by everyone. Let’s take a look at what their democracy looks like . Here they talk about the People’s Congress , so their democracy is theirs. How do you explain that you have democracy? In fact, many authoritarian countries are like this. They use a democratic mechanism to package it and tell you that we have democracy because we have such a system. Whether you can actually exercise it is another matter. People's democracy is the life of socialism. Without democracy, there will be no socialist modernization and there will be no great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. So at that time, I looked very carefully at how they interpreted the matter of democracy , and how to interpret it. They actually had discussions. They are actually telling you that we have established many meetings at all levels and units with the name of the people . Therefore, all matters in our country are discussed by the people. They use this matter to tell the people that we are In a democratic society, please raise your hands if you disagree. If it is not passed , come again. I think the law is actually different from that in Taiwan. For example, you can take a look at the law here. It emphasizes that after the law is established, everyone should abide by the rules. It is governance , so it will be said that the key to governing a country and governing a society is to establish rules , follow the rules, and abide by the rules . Here, Xi Jinping said that the vitality of the law lies in its implementation . If there is a law but it is not implemented or the implementation is not effective , the law will not be followed and the law will not be strictly enforced. No matter how many laws are enacted, it won't help. He said it this way , and it sounds like there isn't much of a problem at first. Laws are already enforced, so when we talk about some laws, we talk about what we may encounter at the enforcement level. It's so difficult , so to be honest, I think if I didn't have a Taiwanese textbook to compare with, I would really only read this textbook. Then I would feel OK. Next, let's take a look at the national defense part . The main emphasis is on our country. If a country wants to be strong, it must build a strong army so that it will not be beaten and there will be peace. To be honest, it seems to be right . There seems to be nothing here . I mean people here in Taiwan will say that you don’t need to be right. But in fact, it’s right. China has told you that if you want to have peace, you must have a strong army. Just tell our seniors that we believe in Xi Jinping. If we want to convince our seniors, we will take out the Xi Jinping book. I am listening to him. Yes, yes to Xi Jinping. So I believe Xi Jinping, we need to develop some good national defense forces and have a unified one country, two systems, which they have been talking about since elementary school. I and some Chinese friends have indeed talked about this. It is natural for him. He has never thought about questioning us. Is it different? In this way, when we look at the map, we will feel that Taiwan is such a small place for China. Is it so important to them whether they have unified Taiwan ? Why do they care about this matter? In fact, I was also very confused. Then when I saw this textbook, I realized that this matter has a certain length in their textbooks. Taiwan is part of China, and both sides of the Taiwan Strait belong to the same China. Compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are all Chinese. Look at them. We can read it in elementary school. We can take a look at it. They all talk about democracy and law. How does Taiwan talk about it? In fact, it is very short. This is a textbook for fifth grade. The introduction to law is about 4 pages. But the first thing it tells you is that laws will affect our lives . The first example it gives you is that some laws can be changed. Examples are how the indigenous people got their names back. The first thing it tells you is that the law can be changed. The concept of the law is to abide by the rules is a little different , so here I have given you a concept that the law may change with the times, yes, yes, and what it tells you is that the law will protect different ethnic groups. Rights protection is really different from observing rules . For example, it just told you that different ethnic groups will protect the rights , and the law will also protect the rights of children and teenagers. So when you were in elementary school, you knew that the law will serve children. Doesn't this have anything to do with rank? The same law applies to the people or the people. Then it tells you that you should abide by the law not only in real society. You should also abide by the law on the Internet. Then it will tell you that the law will restrict people's behavior. There is nothing wrong with it , but apart from the people, Even the government needs to abide by the law. It only has 4 pages of content , but you can find that its narrative perspective seems to be indeed different from China. When it comes to the democratic part, it is more from a historical perspective . For example, it Let me tell you that in our democratic society now, we have freedom of speech, publication, assembly, etc. It tells you that the so-called democracy and freedom are linked. This is the result of the democratic struggle of many people in the past . Therefore, the words used by everyone are very similar , but the connotations are actually quite different. It will tell you again. For example, how did Taiwan's democratic politics develop? It first used local autonomy and then formed political parties through public opinion representatives , and then began to allow the president to be directly elected by the people . It is not just a structure that tells you how to participate in politics. That's what democracy is called. I think this was only done in Chinese textbooks . Even I wasn't so direct and could imagine the very specific differences between them. But from the comparison of the textbooks, I found it very interesting . Even national defense is different. For example, In the national defense part, it tells you that although Taiwan now buys many weapons from foreign countries , it is also important to cultivate its own ability to make weapons. It also tells you that war is not just war. In fact, it tells you that there will be Information warfare will include biological and chemical warfare, etc. So it is a little different from the perspective in China just now. What kind of classes will they teach these Xi Jinping thoughts? From primary school to junior high school, they will have two classes a week on morality and rule of law. After entering high school , the name of the course becomes more in-depth . It is the so-called ideological and political directly called ideological . And after high school, they will become a very important test because they have to take the college entrance examination. It may be different from the previous Three People's Principles. It is very similar to them . Ideology and politics are a subject in the college entrance examination . For example, if you are in the literature group, you usually have to choose this subject because they have a total of six subjects in addition to the main subject and the minor subjects. Among the six subjects, you have to choose three from six . There are three subjects in the group, and there are three subjects in the science group, so if you study in the literature group, you may usually choose this subject. Then I think the exam is really full of memorization. This is the Ideological and Political Guangxi Paper for the 2024 General College Examination . Let's go. Take a look at the second question raised by the 2023 National Propaganda, Ideology and Culture Work Conference. Blah Blah Blah. I find it super difficult to answer. It asks you: Are Xi Jinping’s cultural thoughts a comprehensive answer to the questions of the world and the people of today? And it is It directly explains General Secretary Xi Jinping’s new thoughts , new perspectives, and new judgments on cultural construction in the new era. The connotation is very rich and the discussion is extremely profound . It has already told you how profound and great Xi Jinping Thought is. But what else can this thought do? At the end, I have to give a summary and tell you which summary is correct. It has detailed explanations for you to see. This is also the first and second problem-solving skills . It uses comprehensive answers and basic power to be too absolute. It's not wrong to answer , but it's not comprehensive, right, because it's rich, it can't replace what it was before, it's on top of that, right, right, and then it's not to the fundamental power, but it's an important power , so one, two, there's a little bit more There is nothing wrong with going too far. This is what they ask in the college entrance examination to
get into Peking University. After reading this study book today, what do you think? I think the first and most basic one is that after reading it, you You can understand why there are so many Chinese people who are obsessed with reunifying Taiwan because they have learned this since they were young. It seems to be a natural thing. Because their cognition is like this, it is actually very difficult for you to switch, so Taiwan is China. A sacred and indivisible part. From this perspective, it seems that you can understand why those Chinese people would have a backlash after hearing it . Because they already have existing cognition, which creates a cognitive gap , so there is no&*@# I will tell you Then you have to find a big enough reason to convince him, so to be honest , it would be good if they could come and look at Taiwanese textbooks. So I myself felt the real gap after reading the textbooks on both sides , because we only When you look at the title of the textbook, you will feel that the two sides care about the same things. We all care about democracy, freedom , law, and national defense . But when we look at the description in detail, we find that the emphasis is actually different. For example,
in China, for example The subject they emphasize will be the country. For example, they will say that there must be a Chinese dream before there will be my dream , or they will say that there must be a strong China. This strong China will be built by the party, so the party’s power in China It is very, very important , but the statement that emphasizes the state and the party like this is a statement that Taiwan can no longer accept now. Really , I think that as the great wheel of the times continues to push forward, thoughts have begun to become more and more divergent. Instead, I started from this side. I really feel the difference between the people on both sides. Yes, and I just mentioned that this is a subject and an exam. You can imagine that you have worked hard to study like this since you were a child , and you must read it, and then you will take the exam , and it will also affect When your life is really directly affected, it will affect which university you go to . These contents will really be deeply rooted in people's hearts and form a part of their thinking . No wonder their own netizens will also say that Xi Jinping's thinking is to penetrate into the brain, heart and soul. This is right. So many netizens also said that fortunately they are not the current generation, otherwise they would feel that their brains might be more thoroughly implanted. Sometimes I have met some people who experienced the good times at that time , and then they chose to leave China during the good times. The emotion and regret in the hearts of that group of people is very, very obvious when we talk about how he was at that time. It is no longer possible. For them, China may have really existed in the past. They think it is a free China. Yes, yes, when we were about to move forward, we were strongly blocked there. Yes, it was our Grandpa Xi who completely blocked this matter. He wanted China in the new era to develop his characteristic socialist thoughts. Okay, we Today I have finally finished unboxing this study book. If you have anything you want to share, please leave a message and let us know. Finally, if you like today’s video, don’t forget to share it so that more people know what the study book is reading. In addition, you can also Click here to watch a series of videos on What is Socialism with Chinese Characteristics and The Neighbor on the Left So today's Zhiqi Qiqi will come to an end here. We will see you tomorrow night.
