BEIJING, March 22 (Xinhuanet) -- China on Monday made public a package of proposals on raising the ideological and moral standards of the country's 367 million young people under 18, including more publicity campaigns, educational reform and investment in projects for young people.

    According to the document issued by the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee and the State Council, China will launch publicity campaigns to teach primary and middle school students to value life, say no to drugs, advocate sciences and civilization, and oppose superstition.

    It promises efforts to correct and help those minors with a poor record of conducts.

    Resolute measures will be taken to reform curriculum, textbooks and teaching methods in a bid to lessen the academic burden of primary and middle school students, while stepping up efforts to improve ideological and moral construction of those students, their spirit of innovation and capacity to practice, the document says.

    It calls for greater efforts to ensure the right to education of the children of the country's 100 million migrant workers.

    Large cities will gradually set up public venues for young people in sufficient number and size with rational layouts at city,district and community levels, while medium and small-sized citiesare required to concentrate their efforts on building city-level public venues for young people.

    The document has set the target of building a comprehensive and multi-functional public venue for young people in every county in three to five years.

    The central government will offer financial subsidies to central and western areas and other poor areas for construction of public venues for young people, and formulate policies to encourage private investment in those projects, it says.

    Governments will increase support for production and screening of China-made animated films, and Internet portals of various kinds are also urged to have better understanding of their social responsibility, according to the document.

    The document calls for tougher measures to censor game software catering to young people, check those with content that may induce young people to violate laws and commit crimes and that show terror and cruelty.

    The document vows to implement to the letter regulations that forbid young people under 18 to enter commercial Internet bars andmake sure terminals of those bars will be installed with filtering software barring pornographic and other unhealthy information.

    It also promises to improve administration of commercial public entertainment venues, electronic gaming halls and other social andcultural venues, and make sure areas within 200 meters of primary and middle schools are free of commercial Internet bars and electronic gaming venues.

    The document calls on governments and Party committees at various levels to attach great importance to the work of improving the ideological and moral standards of young people, incorporate it into their overall program of social and economic development and give priority to it when putting it on their work agenda. Enditem