Editing Falun Gong (section)

====In the education system====
Anti-Falun Gong propaganda efforts have also permeated the Chinese education system. Following Jiang's 1999 ban of Falun Gong, then-Minister of Education [[Chen Zhili]] launched an active campaign to promote the CCP's line on Falun Gong within all levels of academic institutions, including graduate schools, universities and colleges, middle schools, primary schools, and kindergartens. Her efforts included a "Cultural Revolution-like pledge" in Chinese schools that required faculty members, staff, and students to publicly denounce Falun Gong. Teachers who did not comply with Chen's program were dismissed or detained; uncooperative students were refused academic advancement, expelled from school, or sent to "transformation" camps to alter their thinking.<ref name="specialtribunal.org">[http://www.specialtribunal.org/downloads/WOIPFG_MinistryOfEducation_Part1.pdf "Chinese Ministry of Education Participating in Persecution of Falun Gong: Investigative Report"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040927053846/http://www.specialtribunal.org/downloads/WOIPFG_MinistryOfEducation_Part1.pdf |date=27 September 2004 }}. 16 March 2004. Retrieved 17 November 2011.</ref> Chen also worked to spread the anti-Falun Gong academic propaganda movement overseas, using domestic educational funding to donate aid to foreign institutions, encouraging them to oppose Falun Gong.<ref name="specialtribunal.org"/>