PEOPLE'S UNIVERSITY TO TRAIN LEADERS FOR CHINA; GOVERNMENT ISSUES SUPPLEMENTARY REGULATIONS

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• Publication Date: November 21, 1950
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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL C0~1F~DE~TaAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY China,
SUBJECT Sociologic, :1 -Education
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED Hong Kong; Ho-fei
DATE
PUBLISHED 9, 27 Oct 1950
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
PEOPLE'S UNIVERSITY TO TRAIN LEADERS FOR CHINA;
Gv'vriuvtY~rirl' ISSUES SUPPLEMENTARY REGULATIONS
DESCRIBES CHINESE PEOPLE'S UNIVERSITY __ gong Kong, Hsing-tao Jih-gao, 27 Oct 50
The first new-type regular university in China was opened with considerably
eclat in Peiping in March of this year. It will no doubt have much influence in
moulding the new society in China. Its establishment was authorized at the 11th
meeting of 'the Government Administration Council on 16 December 19+9. Its task
ie to prepare reconstruction ca,dx?es for the new China, using Soviet experience
in this field. Soviet professors are to be employed, and students are to be
drawn from all parts of China.
The regular course embraces eight departments: law, diplomacy, coopera-
tives, F.useian language, finance, grade, economic planning, and, factory manage-
ment. There are also ll~specisl courses in these and other fields. The law and
diplomacy departments require 4 years, the others 3; while special courses re-
quire 8 months. Among the students, the largest group are worker and peasant
revolutionary cadres, next are progressive laborers, and finally, the progres-
sive young intellectuals. The students number more than 3,000, of whom 1,827
are cadres (570 of these with 8 or more years of party work),. and 172 are pro-
gressive laborers. Communist Party members number .,733, ark. New Democracy
Youth, 651? The students have a high degree of class consciousness and have
already made a good name for themselves.
The educations]. aim in this institution is to link instruction with reality,
to emphasize quality and efPiriency in work and continually to .elevate the sci-
entific attsixmtents of the cadres. For this reason, there is maintained a vital
connection with government agencies.
TO HELP COLLEGES AND UNEI~IAYED PROFESSORS -- Ho-Pei, Huan-psi Jih-pao, 9 Oct 50
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Recently liberated East China is having serious trouble in maintaining its
educational work. In this time oP transition, with natural calamities added,
unemployment among professors and lack o~ schooling for youths present .difficult
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problems.' Private cclleges and middle schools, which comprise at least half of
the total, are with a feu exceptions, suffering financial stringency and ~+ome
have closed.
Many local governments have enlisted intellectuals to go south, to enter
the army for revolutionary work, or. to be placed in reconstruction pro,jecte in
the ftortheast. Many private schools have, under the?People's government leader-
ship, used their energies in a cooperative way to keep going, and even enlarged
their scope. This has been true even in the stricken regions where relief work
was so urgent However, despite improvement, the situation rams?.ns serious.
When land reform is accomplished this fall, conditions will be better, but still
much effort will be needed to maintain our educational work,
To carry out the Central governnent's purpose in the matter of help for un-
employed professors and students who are out of school, the East China. Military
and Political Commission has issued a supplementary directive which has the fol-
lowing provisions:
1. Each local government, in addition to maintaining the public schools,
must help the private institutions so that they may carry on, adapting them-
selves to the new state of affairs, This can be done by observing the Central
government?e principles of lower fees more atudenta, cooperation between faculty
and atudenta, reaourrefulneas, self-renovation, and overcoming of obstacles.
~nese schools must help themselves to the utmost.
2. Private schools of the middle school and college level should be the
chief ones helped, for their load is heavier. Founders and directors may be ap-
pealed to for financial help, the government may set up work scholarships or
money scholarships, and also grants to teachers or loans without interest, etc.
At the same time, tendenci.ea to neglect self-renovation or to lean on government
aid should be guarded against.
3. In the mater of elementary schools, emphasis should be put on the-pay
of teachers, as the prime factor in keeping the schools going. All local re-
sources and patronage should be drawn upon . The minimum educational needs
should be recognized in the official budget. In the division of school land in
land reform, the interests of the schools must be preserved.
~+. In the disaster areas, teachers have loyally cooperated under the gov-
ernment by joining teaching with relief and production work. This fine work
must be conserved and continued, and great precautions must be taken to prevent
the dispersal of the teachers whose services will be needed after conditions re-
turn. to normal.
5~ Unemployed professors and intellectuals should be registered and given
relief in accord with the goverrmtent's directive of 25 July. They should be
given ideological and political training in special classes to allay their fears
about livelihood and fit them for future service to the nation as needed .
6, Students for whom schooling is not available should be gathered into
various supplementary or night classes, using existing facilities in the cities.
They can be given political education and ealisted.in social service. This
plan has been successfully tried in Shanghai.
7. People's governments everywhere must actively organize all resources in
the educational field under the leadership of an educational administrative com-
mittee, cooperating with other relief agencies each as those cc.-erned~with un-
employed laborers. In this way, there should be a definite attack upon the prob-
lem. Reports should be made "from time to time on efforts in this direction.
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