Xi Jinping says China will deepen patriotic education

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BEIJING — China will deepen patriotic education, Chinese President Xi Jinping said in a speech on Sunday at the opening of the once-in-five-year Communist Party congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

China will actively guide religion to be compatible with a socialist society and maintain the principle of developing culture with socialist characteristics, Xi added. (Reporting by Yew Lun Tian; Writing by Martin Quin Pollard; Editing by William Mallard)