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Hong Kong to distribute Xi Jinping book to schools, hold sharing session with principals

Education Bureau will send out copies next month, first time schools have received books on discourse of country’s leader

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Public and subsidised schools, as well as those under the direct subsidy scheme, will all receive copies of the book. Photo: Jonathan Wong
Hong Kong education authorities will distribute a book on President Xi Jinping’s discourse to primary and secondary schools for the first time, before holding a sharing session with principals.
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The Education Bureau told school heads in a notice on Wednesday it would send out the books on Chinese modernisation in the middle of next month.

It encouraged principals to “read it, fully understand the content of Chinese modernisation and the successful implementation of the ‘one country, two systems’ principle and share it with teachers and students at schools”.

Public and subsidised schools, as well as those under the direct subsidy scheme, will all receive copies.

The bureau also invited principals to sign up for a sharing session led by education minister Christine Choi Yuk-lin in November, in which she and other guests would share their personal reflections on the text.

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The event is meant to “deepen the reading reflections of principals” and “help them strengthen patriotism education in schools”, according to the notice.

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