A national political advisor said that Chinese universities and colleges should strengthen education on marriage and love for students. The suggestion was made during the ongoing annual session of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the country's top political advisory body.

"Currently, college students lack emotional education in marriage and love. Most of their understanding of emotions and sex stays at the level of physiological sexual health knowledge. When facing emotional or romantic setbacks, they are prone to be rabid, get out of control and even commit crime," said Yu Xinwei, a member of the CPPCC National Committee and vice chairman of the CPPCC GuangzhouMunicipal Committee.

In recent years, there have been many cases of college students committing murder, suicide and sexual assault due to romantic complications. According to a survey by Duan Xinxing, professor of the School of Public Administration, China University of Mining and Technology, relationships are an important factor that affects the mental health of college students.

In addition, many romance novels, TV dramas, and movies are now installing unrealistic views on love and marriage into students' mind. Online media reports of celebrities' extramarital affairs, flash marriages and divorces and other negative marriage and love information, invisibly promote many wrong concepts of marriage and love. These are all subtly affecting college students.

"College students are an important talent pool for our society. Their views on marriage and love not only reflect the value orientation of their individual lives, but also represent the trends of marriage and family in the society. Strengthening education on marriage and love for college students is conducive to the harmonious development of society and lays a foundation for improving the quality of the population," Yu said.

Through research, Yu found that at present, marriage education is still in the preliminary stage, and the love courses offered by universities and colleges are mostly elective courses. How to establish and improve the marriage and love education system for college students has become an urgent issue for higher education institutions to solve.

She suggested the creation of a three-dimensional marriage and love education model with school education as the main body, family education as supplement and social education as an influence, while making marriage and love education a compulsory course for college students. The course would involve conducting such education for college students through classroom teaching and special lectures on marriage and relationships, family relationships, parent-child relationships, and systematically compiling marriage and love education curriculum textbooks based on actual cases.

Yu further suggested promotion of the professionalization, systematization, and standardization of educating and training teachers for marriage relationships, family relationships, and parent-child relationships. The Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Education, and the All-China Women's Federation shall promote long-term cooperation between public-welfare marriage service projects and colleges; improve the professionalism of marriage and family counseling teams by improving job training and assessment; and providing effective supports for college students' marriage and love education.

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