Yang Runxiong: The Education Bureau will promote the national security education curriculum and teacher training to improve students' awareness of the law

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Written by Deng Yinglin

2020-07-01 13:36

After the "Hong Kong version of the National Security Law" was published on July 1, the Secretary for Education Yang Runxiong attended the flag raising ceremony held by the Huang Chubiao Middle School of the Education Federation today (1st) and said that the Education Bureau will carry out national safety education in the curriculum, teaching resources and Teacher training and other measures have been taken to enable students to understand the legislative background and content of the National Security Law. In response to past social events in Hong Kong, he said that the Education Bureau will strengthen the assistance of schools to promote the education of the Constitution and the Basic Law to increase students’ awareness of the law .

Yang Runxiong said on Facebook that at the invitation of the Hong Kong Flag Raising Team General Assembly, today (1st), he attended the flag raising ceremony held by the Hong Kong Educators Association Huang Chubiao Middle School. (Photo of Yang Runxiong's facebook)

Yang Runxiong said on Facebook that cultivating students’ recognition of national identity is an important purpose of primary and secondary education. He described the first "important day" after the "National Anthem Regulations" came into effect. It is "meaningful" to raise the national flag and sing the national anthem on campus with students. . He also said that in order to comply with the National Anthem Regulations, the Education Bureau has issued notices and provided guidelines to schools, requiring schools to raise national flags, regional flags and performances during celebrations on New Year’s Day, ‪Return and National Day, or around school days Sing the national anthem and strengthen the education of students to "know, respect and love" the national flag and the national anthem. In the classroom, the Education Bureau has provided supplementary curriculum documents, enriched online teaching resources and teacher training to help students understand the history of the national anthem and the etiquette when singing the national anthem.

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Yang Runxiong also mentioned the implementation of the National Security Act of the Hong Kong District. He believes that the legislation will enable Hong Kong to return to stability and regain economic and livelihood development, revealing that the Education Bureau will carry out national security education and adopt diversification in various aspects such as courses, teaching resources and teacher training. Measures to help students understand the legislative background, content and significance of the "National Security Act of Minato City", so as to improve students' awareness of national security and law-abiding.

The storm of anti-revision laws continued for more than a year. Yang Runxiong said, "The social events in Hong Kong in the past days let us know that it is particularly important to help young people establish a law-abiding concept." That said, it affects the healthy growth of our next generation," emphasizing that the Education Bureau will continue to strengthen support for schools to promote the education of the Constitution and the Basic Law, and cultivate the next generation who are law-abiding and respectful of others.