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THEY WERE CERTAINLY QUICK OFF THE MARK.

Just one day after President Xi Jinping said it was a pity Chinese literary classics were being removed from some school textbooks, the education authorities in Beijing announced they have considerably increased the proportion of classical poems and essays in school textbooks. Starting next school year, such content in the textbooks for first-graders will almost triple.

The Ministry of Education promised to "more carefully" implement Xi's instructions and, like he said, truly "embed such classics in students' brains".