Chapter I General Provisions Article 1 This Law is formulated in accordance with the Constitution in order to protect the physical and mental health of minors, safeguard their legitimate rights and interests, promote their all-round moral, intellectual and physical development, and train successors with ideals, morality, culture and discipline in the socialist cause. Article 2 Minors mentioned in this Law refer to citizens under the age of 18. Article 3 The state, society, schools and families shall educate minors in ideals, morality, culture, discipline and the legal system, educate them in patriotism, collectivism, internationalism and communism, advocate the public morality of loving the motherland, people, labor, science and socialism, and oppose the erosion of capitalism, feudalism and other decadent ideas. Article 4 The protection of minors shall follow the following principles: (1) Protecting the legitimate rights and interests of minors; (2) Respecting the personal dignity of minors; (three) to adapt to the characteristics of physical and mental development of minors; (4) Combination of education and protection. Article 5 The state guarantees that the person, property and other lawful rights and interests of minors are inviolable. Protecting minors is the common responsibility of state organs, armed forces, political parties, social organizations, enterprises and institutions, urban and rural grassroots mass autonomous organizations, guardians of minors and other adult citizens. Any organization or individual has the right to discourage or stop acts that infringe upon the legitimate rights and interests of minors, or to report or accuse the relevant departments. The state, society, schools and families should educate and help minors to safeguard their legitimate rights and interests by legal means. Article 6 State organs at the central and local levels shall do a good job in the protection of minors within their respective functions and duties. The State Council and the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall, according to needs, take organizational measures to coordinate the relevant departments to do a good job in the protection of minors. The Communist Youth League, women's federations, trade unions, youth federations, student federations, young pioneers and other relevant social organizations shall assist people's governments at all levels in the protection of minors and safeguard their legitimate rights and interests. Seventh people's governments at all levels and relevant departments shall reward organizations and individuals that have made remarkable achievements in the protection of minors. Chapter II Family Protection Article 8 Parents or other guardians shall perform guardianship duties and support obligations for minors according to law, and shall not abuse or abandon minors; Shall not discriminate against female minors or disabled minors; It is forbidden to drown or abandon babies. Article 9 Parents or other guardians shall respect minors' right to education, and must make school-age minors receive compulsory education in accordance with regulations, and shall not make minors who receive compulsory education drop out of school. Article 10 Parents or other guardians shall educate minors with healthy thoughts, behaviors and appropriate methods, guide minors to engage in activities beneficial to their physical and mental health, and prevent and stop minors from smoking, drinking, wandering, gambling, taking drugs and prostitution. Eleventh parents or other guardians shall not allow or force minors to get married, and shall not enter into marriage contracts for minors. Twelfth parents or other guardians who fail to perform their guardianship duties or infringe upon the legitimate rights and interests of minors under guardianship shall bear the responsibility according to law. If a parent or other guardian has one of the acts listed in the preceding paragraph and refuses to change after education, the people's court may revoke his guardian qualification upon the application of the relevant person or unit; In accordance with the provisions of Article 16 of the General Principles of the Civil Law, the guardian shall be determined separately. Chapter III Protection of Schools Article 13 Schools shall fully implement the educational policy of the state and provide moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and labor education, as well as social life guidance and adolescent education for underage students. Schools should care about and care for students; Students with shortcomings in conduct and difficulties in learning should be patiently educated, helped and not discriminated against. Article 14 Schools shall respect the right of underage students to receive education, and shall not expel underage students at will. Fifteenth school and kindergarten staff should respect the personal dignity of minors, and may not impose corporal punishment, disguised corporal punishment or other acts that insult personal dignity on underage students and children. Sixteenth schools shall not allow underage students to engage in activities that endanger personal safety and health in school buildings and other educational and teaching facilities. No organization or individual may disturb the teaching order, occupy or destroy school buildings, houses and equipment. Seventeenth schools and kindergartens arrange for underage students and children to participate in collective activities such as assembly, cultural entertainment and social practice, which should be conducive to the healthy growth of minors and prevent personal safety accidents. Article 18 Minors who are sent to work-study schools for compulsory education according to relevant state regulations shall receive ideological education, cultural education, labor and technical education and vocational education. The staff of the work-study school should care for, love and respect the students, and shall not discriminate against or exclude them. Nineteenth kindergartens should do a good job in conservation and education to promote the harmonious development of children in physical, intellectual and moral aspects. Chapter IV Social Protection Article 20 The State encourages social organizations, enterprises, institutions, other organizations and citizens to carry out various forms of social activities beneficial to the healthy growth of minors. Twenty-first people's governments at all levels should create conditions to establish and improve places and facilities suitable for the cultural life of minors. Twenty-second museums, memorial halls, science and technology museums, cultural centers, theaters, stadiums (gymnasiums), zoos, parks and other places should be open to primary and secondary school students with preferential treatment. Twenty-third commercial dance halls and other places that are not suitable for minors' activities, the relevant competent departments and operators should take measures to prevent minors from entering. Article 24 The state encourages news, publishing, broadcasting, film, television, literary and artistic units, writers, scientists, artists and other citizens to create or provide works that are beneficial to the healthy growth of minors. The state supports the publication of books, newspapers, periodicals, audio-visual products and other publications specially for minors. Twenty-fifth it is strictly forbidden for any organization or individual to sell, rent or otherwise spread obscene, violent, murderous, terrorist and other books, newspapers, audio-visual products that poison minors. Twenty-sixth children's food, toys, utensils and recreational facilities shall not be harmful to children's safety and health. Article 27 No one is allowed to smoke in classrooms, dormitories, activity rooms and other indoor places where minors concentrate their activities in primary and secondary schools, kindergartens and nurseries. Twenty-eighth unless otherwise stipulated by the state, no organization or individual may recruit minors under the age of sixteen. Any organization or individual that recruits minors who have reached the age of 16 but have not reached the age of 18 in accordance with the relevant provisions of the state shall implement the relevant provisions of the state in terms of types of work, working hours, labor intensity and protective measures, and shall not arrange them to engage in overweight, toxic and harmful labor or dangerous operations. Twenty-ninth minors who wander and beg or run away from home shall be handed over to their parents or other guardians by the civil affairs department or other relevant departments; If it is temporarily impossible to find their parents or other guardians, the child welfare institution established by the civil affairs department shall take care of them. Thirtieth no organization or individual may disclose the personal privacy of minors. Article 31 No organization or individual may conceal or destroy the letters of minors; No organization or individual may open the letters of minors without legal capacity, except that the public security organs and people's procuratorates check them in accordance with the procedures prescribed by law in order to trace crimes, or their parents or other guardians open them on their behalf. Thirty-second health departments and schools should provide necessary health care conditions for minors and do a good job in disease prevention. Article 33 Local people's governments at all levels should actively develop child care, strive to run nurseries and kindergartens well, encourage and support state organs, social organizations, enterprises and institutions and other social forces to set up nursing rooms, nurseries and kindergartens, and advocate and support the establishment of family nurseries. Thirty-fourth health departments should implement the system of children's vaccination certificate, actively prevent and treat common and frequently-occurring diseases of children, strengthen the supervision and management of the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases and provide professional guidance for the health care work in nurseries and kindergartens. Thirty-fifth people's governments at all levels and relevant departments should take various forms to cultivate and train kindergarten and nursery teachers and strengthen their political, ideological and professional education. Article 36 The state protects the intellectual achievements and the right of honor of minors from infringement according to law. For minors with special talents or outstanding achievements, the state, society, families and schools should create favorable conditions for their healthy development. Thirty-seventh minors who have completed compulsory education for a specified number of years and no longer pursue further studies, relevant government departments, social organizations, enterprises and institutions shall provide vocational and technical training and create employment conditions for them according to the actual situation.
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