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For middle and primary school students, learning to cook has become a must. They will also need to learn how vegetables, raise poultry (家禽) and maintain home appliances (修理家电) under new requirements for labor (劳动) education.
The Ministry of Education (MOE教育部) brought out a new for labor education in school last year. From the 2022 fall term, students in primary and middle schools have to take courses on labor skills at least once a week. The new standard includes three kinds of labor tasks (任务). The first is for things like chores, including cleaning, organizing, cooking and maintaining home appliances. Next is productive labor, such as making hand-made works and new technologies. The is service work which includes volunteer work.
Schools in China have paid more attention to studying, and many have seen chores as a waste of children's time. But according to the MOE, labor education must be built up to help students and develop an interest in labor.
Online, people have been busy the new standard on social media (社交媒体). Liu Fang, a mother of 6-year-old twins in Beijing, strongly labor education. For the past year, she has trained her daughters to do chores and make simple dishes the family.
"Through doing housework, their eye-hand coordination (手眼协调), time management and organization skills can be trained and it's also good to help relax. " Through such education, Liu thinks her twins have found fun in doing chores and are more independent.
