Party School teachers learning lessons in life

A mixture of academic success and hands-on experience provide lecturers with a stimulating environment, as Hou Liqiang reports.

In 2015, shortly before delivering his first lecture at the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in Beijing, Zheng Huan began to panic. He felt he wasn't ready for the challenge of delivering the class lecture, even though he had spent three years employed as a teaching assistant and was familiar with the school's methods and ethos.

"Despite learning a lot of theory during my 10-year study of political science, I failed to answer many of the students' questions when I worked as an assistant. My knowledge and the training I had received weren't enough to meet the demands of the job," the 32-year-old lecturer said.