Beijing Review

The Importance of Housework Courses

Many Chinese primary and middle-school students are not competent in housework today and do not take such work seriously, due to long-term negligence of housework education by both schools and families. Consequently, some arrive at college unable to cook or wash their own clothes.

The Ministry of Education has recently released the new curriculum standard for housework education in

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