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szdaily -> China
‘Overly aspiring’ young cadre sparks controversy
     2011-May-5  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

    

    TUCKING his hands into his pants pockets, 13-year-old Huang Yibo — better known as the deputy chief of all Wuhan city’s young pioneers — poses like a professional politician for most photographs.

    Part of the public interest in him may stem from the apparent inconsistency between his official title and his age. But that is not the only thing that attracted more than 1.2 million hits to the boy’s blog on the popular Web site sina.com.cn in recent days.

    Also of interest is his zeal for politics. Local newspapers have reported that he ceased watching cartoons when he was 2 and instead tuned in to China Central Television’s 7 p.m. “Xinwen Lianbo” news and that he began reading the People’s Daily when he was 7.

    Even more “commendable,” according to netizens, was his white armband bearing five red strokes. Most students never see themselves or classmates in primary school receive more than three strokes, which show the wearer to be a young pioneer leader in a school. Two strokes indicate the wearer is a monitor of a class and one stroke indicates he or she is the overseer of a small team.

    In the introduction to his blog, Huang quotes an old saying to express his desire to pursue moral discipline, benefit mankind and bring stability to the country.

    He also wrote that one of his goals was “to revive the Chinese nation and resume the heyday of the Han and Tang dynasties.”

    Netizens have inundated the boy’s blog with comments offering a mixture of praise, doubt, suggestions and satire.

    “I don’t think this could have been the natural choice of a boy,” Yang Hongshan, a public administration professor at Renmin University of China, told China Daily. “It must have to do with his parents and environment, which may have instilled in him a strong sense of the importance that society places on official position and rank.”

    Yang said it was necessary to teach children about politics and society, but taking it to such an extent was abnormal and harmful.

    “If Huang is as he is depicted in the news, and if his parents do not do something about it, his learning will become unbalanced and his personality rendered incomplete,” Yang warned.

    (SD-Agencies)

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