HKSAR gov't to promote national security education in schools

HONG KONG -- Secretary for Education of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government Kevin Yeung said on Friday that the education bureau will provide local schools with guidelines about carrying out national security education.

Yeung said at the Legislative Council of the HKSAR that the education bureau will further enhance students' awareness of national security and law-abiding to tie in with the implementation of the Law of the People's Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the HKSAR.

The education bureau will provide support for primary and secondary schools to promote national security education, allow students to have a clearer understanding of the inseparable relationship between the country and Hong Kong, the importance of the national security law in Hong Kong to the implementation of "one country, two systems" as well as the prosperity and stable development of Hong Kong, Yeung said.

Yeung said that the core training of new teachers will include the contents of the Constitution, the HKSAR Basic Law and national security, and the contents of teachers' professional ethics will be strengthened in the pre-service training to ensure that teachers' ethics, moral character and integrity are guaranteed.