Article 24 of the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China, in the form amended on March 11, 2018, reads: “The state advocates the core socialist values and promotes the public virtues of love for the motherland, for the people, for labor, for science and for socialism. It educates the people in patriotism, collectivism, internationalism and communism, and in dialectical and historical materialism, and opposes capitalist, feudal and other decadent ideas.”