Senior Party official congratulates on children's radio program

A senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) has sent his congratulations to the ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of a well-known radio program for children.

The program has educated and influenced several generations of China's youth and played an indispensable role in the drive to raise the young people's ideological and moral standards, said Liu Yunshan, head of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, in his congratulatory letter to the program Xiaolaba, Little Horn.

Liu, also member of the Political Bureau and of the Secretariat of CPC Central Committee, called for the program to follow the step of the times and make more contribution to the moral construction of the young minds and building a harmonious culture.

The Little Horn, a radio program for preschool children, was first broadcast on Sept. 4, 1956 at the China National Radio.

Source: Xinhua