International Journal of Education and Social Science (IJESS)

The purpose of this article is to examine policy implementation on citizenship education in contemporary China. This research brings specific lens to examine the civic education in contemporary China from a policy implementation perspective. Specifically, the conceptual framework involves in investigating and elaborating the underlying mechanisms by which participation in citizenship education communities shapes how China’s government come to understand and act on instrumental policy. This study also highlights a new policy implementation dimension as an important framework for examining the implementation complex change effort for contemporary China’s civic education. Additionally, this policy implementation suggested that paying much attention to bottom-up policy reconstruction; enhancing citizenship education transparency and sustainability; boost public spending on citizenship education and ensuring equal opportunities for disadvantage students; fostering civic learning and promoting equal accessibility; boosting Human-centered civic education, promoting policy explanation capacity and building school-community partnership; creating civic literacy and engagement; paying attention to sociocultural context of relation-oriented identical culture; focusing on specific institutional context; forecasting on both the internal and external economic trends; establishing a countrywide workplace training-based citizenship education system are particularly crucial to enhance civic education quality and better disseminate information on citizenship concept.