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mental sector to run education. Educational institutions in China are all affected by the shortage of financial resources. 5. The secure job policy makes education a closed and extremely stable system, closed to competition. Our curriculum is out of date. Education reforms are imperative in China…. Sincere love of children is the principle upon which CICC is constructed.… I am strongly against parents or teachers who impose their own views and demands on the children. Education is a noble job that calls for devotion and dedication with no reser vation. Chances and conditions for education should be equal for every child…. The cultural, economic, and educational levels for the minorities in Hainan are relatively low. With these factors in mind, CICC intentionally enrolls students from these minorities for educational experimentation and research…. The aim of CICC is to develop children into persons with sound personality for the 21st century. To this end we incorporate the following features: 1. Standardization—a series of educational activities designed, organized, and managed according to educational principles and social needs to achieve a desired end. 2. Complying with natural law—all educational activities must obey the natural physio logical and psychological development of children. Tampering with these laws leads to failure, as in the medieval missionary schools and family education. 3. Exploitation—exploiting the tremendous potential capacities of children. 4. Succession and systemization—treat the developmental process as a systemic whole. …Personality is the synthesis of a person’s mental and physical qualities. Our proposal is that elementary education should be globally oriented.... This is the inexorable result of international economic development. Education reforms conducted by CICC include the shortening of the whole educational period to fifteen years of schooling. Weekday boarding is one of the educational facilities of CICC. They [the students] are required to board at school on weekdays and go back home by school bus on weekends. We provide boarding for the following reasons: 1. Most people are too busy working to pay enough attention to the education of their own children. 2. Many of the children come from broken families. The boarding school is a place they can turn to for comfort. Some even prefer to stay at school on weekends. 3. Many parents are not well-educated themselves and know nothing about how to bring up their own children. 4. China has a “one-child” policy as a way of controlling the birthrate. It is statistically shown that problems such as self-centeredness, stubbornness, and dependence are some common characteristics of only children nowadays. CICC provides boarding to strengthen the children’s sense of equality, solidarity, and independence. We have established a school for the parents, where people can learn how to educate their own children. The overall plan for CICC has Moon Lake as the hub of the community with the educational center around it. CICC has organized itself into a self-supported inter national group corporation of educational institutions and enterprises by opening businesses and services in children’s education, science and technology, medicine and health, legal, insurance, trade and tourism. [Ed. Note: Do the above outlines remind the reader of the New American Schools Development Corporation’s criteria for schooling in the United States through charter schools that bear many of the above characteristics? Can the reader recognize the Chinese equivalent of “at-risk” categories that our country is targeting for educational funding? Does reference to boarding