Hong Kong is up in arms over plans to introduce compulsory “moral and national education” into its classrooms. As the school year starts, thousands of protesters have demonstrated outside government headquarters against what they see as an attempt to brainwash children with a pro-Beijing message. Primary schools have overwhelmingly rejected what is, until 2015, a voluntary scheme to merge “national education” into existing civic and moral education lessons. There have been sit-ins, marches and even hunger strikes. Such is the mood of hostility that Leung Chun-ying, Hong Kong’s newly appointed leader, has scrapped plans to attend this weekend’s Asia-Pacific Economic Conference forum in Vladivostok to deal with the crisis.
香港在本地中小学引入“德育及国民教育”必修课程的计划在民众中激起了强烈反应。在新学年开始之际，数千名抗议者在香港政府总部门外举行示威活动，反对这门在他们看来带有亲北京色彩的洗脑课程。香港本地小学压倒性地反对一项在2015年以前将“国民教育”课程并入现有公民与道德教育课程的自主方案。示威民众采取了静坐、游行甚至绝食抗议等举措。严重的对立情绪迫使新任港首梁振英取消了参加本周末在海参崴举行的亚太manbetx20客户端下载 会议(Asia-Pacific Economic Conference)的计划，留下来应对危机。