Reporter : Li Shi / Editor : Lin Yan / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/21/1/16/n12692657.htm / Direct translation
After the Chinese Communist Party in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region pushed for Chinese language teaching, the Chinese Communist Party recently increased its efforts again and conducted an "ideological review of primary and middle school textbooks about Mongolian local history." ". Some of these textbooks are banned because of the so-called "emphasis on individual national identity".
A document issued by the Education Department of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region to various publishing houses with an inscription date of 8 January 2021 shows that in the autumn of last year, in accordance with the instructions of the National Textbook Committee, the department conducted a " Ideological Special Investigation" and review the textbooks such as "Inner Mongolia History and Culture", "Mongolian History", "Hulunbuir History and Culture", "Hetao History and Culture", "Korqin History and Culture (Trial)" and other textbooks.
The document claims that the above-mentioned teaching materials have problems such as "common consciousness is not prominent enough" and deliberately emphasizing individual "national identity" and "national consciousness". The Department of Education of Inner Mongolia decided to stop using textbooks such as "Inner Mongolia History and Culture", "Mongolian History", "Hetao History and Culture" from the spring semester of this year, and stop using "Hulunbuir History and Culture" and "Korqin History and Culture (Trial)" from the autumn semester. .
At the end of August last year (2020), the Inner Mongolian government forced primary and secondary schools to replace Mongolian with Chinese as the language of instruction, and implemented a unified Chinese language teaching plan. Hou Yuan, then director of the Education Department, claimed that "textbooks reflect the will of the party and the state" and the use of unified textbooks was a "major decision-making arrangement" made by the "party central committee".
This triggered a large-scale fierce resistance among the Mongolians. People worry that the unique Mongolian language and culture will be wiped out.
Xi Haiming, chairman of the Southern Mongolian Parliament, who lives in Germany, once told Radio Free Asia that the move by the Chinese Communist government is clearly to implement a policy of cultural extermination against the Mongolian nation: “It is to assimilate and eliminate the culture of other nations. This is a challenge to human civilization. Trampled, we Mongolians will definitely resist to the end. We hope that the international community will pay attention and not sit back and watch the extinction of a nation’s ancient culture, which will happen in the 21st century."
The state media Inner Mongolia Radio and Television Station's more than 300 employees in the system collectively signed and publicly opposed this policy, which is an amazing move. The authorities forcefully suppressed the Mongolian protests. According to reports, at least thousands of people were arrested and sent to conversion camps, and many died.
The situation escalated and became an international event. The international community has expressed solidarity with the Mongolians' resistance and condemned the CCP. On 7 October 2020, Shi Taifeng, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, made his statement for the first time, saying that he would improve the work on Chinese teaching.
On 26 November, Hou Yuan was removed from office. At that time, there were comments from the outside world that Hou Yuan's exemption was just an expedient measure by the Chinese Communist Party to protect the car and quell public anger. Its fundamental policy of suppressing minority languages and culture will not change.
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