Mainland Education Turning Children into "Machine Parts" Through Indoctrination

In February 2023, Luo Chang, a teacher from a public school in Jiaozuo, Henan Province, crossed into the United States. In a July 18 interview with The Epoch Times, he expressed that schools in China are essentially tools for the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) indoctrination. (Photo by Ma Shang’en/ Dajiyuan)

[People News] Education is crucial for the future of a child, a family, and a nation. Several Chinese teachers who successfully crossed into the U.S. have testified that the CCP uses the education system to control children’s minds, indoctrinating them with hate and transforming them into mere "cogs in a machine." In recent years, young children in Chinese kindergartens have been taught to hate the U.S. and are even trained with "bomb vests" to "kill enemies." This has drawn criticism from internet users, accusing the CCP of "inciting hatred," "reviving the Cultural Revolution," and mimicking Hamas with a "Gaza fever."

Recently, a kindergarten in Xinmi City, Henan Province, posted a video on its social media account showing children wearing "bomb vests" and performing a choreographed morning exercise. This sparked public outrage, forcing the kindergarten to delete the video.

The video shows rows of red flags at the kindergarten, with female teachers in old-style CCP military uniforms leading the children in exercises. Each child wore a paper box labeled "bomb vest" and followed along with the routine, which resembled mechanical movements from the Cultural Revolution era.

Although such education methods have been labeled "cannon fodder training," the scene played a song celebrating children as "the flowers of the motherland."

Many netizens condemned the kindergarten as "perverted" and "inhumane." One media outlet criticized, "These children are being raised in an environment that is anti-intellectual, anti-human, anti-civilization, absurd, stupid, despicable, shameless, inhumane, and disgraceful. Is this truly instilling courage? This is no different from how Hamas and terrorist groups train children to strap on bombs and face enemies in suicide missions."

Moreover, many videos depict kindergartens not only having children wear "bomb vests" but also setting up scenes where they charge through simulated "smoke" and "bomb bunkers."

In April of this year, the CCP’s National People's Congress Standing Committee proposed a revision to the National Defense Education Law, requiring military training in universities and high schools, and allowing middle schools to organize similar training. Additionally, primary schools were to implement "national defense education."

In recent years, reports have surfaced that military training is beginning at the elementary school level in many regions. In some cases, children undergo training as soon as they enter first grade.

In a July 2023 interview with The Epoch Times, former middle school teacher Luo Chang, who previously taught in Jiaozuo, Henan, recounted his teaching career under CCP mandates. Luo said teachers were required to align themselves with the Party. "Teachers must participate in weekly political studies, during which they study Party materials or watch CCP-approved videos. A teacher's duty is to ensure each student becomes a cog in the CCP’s machinery, whether as a screw or a brick, with no regard for students as complete human beings. Genuine education for critical thinking and emotional needs is always subordinated to political agendas," he remarked.