No sooner were they back on campus after the isolation of COVID-19 clampdowns and China’s elementary school students were boning up on the essentials of the Chinese Communist Party’s history, mainland media reported on Monday.

The study sessions would help consolidate the recognition of the Chinese Communist Party regime and ingrain loyalty among the country’s younger generations, the reports said.

As the semester began on Monday, up to 35,000 students in Beijing tuned in to a live broadcast of a lecture, while some schools also invited party members and alumni to give seminars on the party’s history, said state-run Beijing News.

Elementary schools in the eastern provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Anhui also kicked off with history lessons on the party.

The 100-year anniversary of the establishment of the Chinese Communist Party will be celebrated in a “grandiose” fashion, China’s leader Xi Jinping told a Feb. 1 meeting with representatives from political groups outside of, but tolerated by the Party. Ideological education had to “begin with toddlers,” he told them.

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