The Values Education Curriculum Framework (Pilot Version) (2021) states clearly that with Chinese culture as the backbone, Values education connects various cross-curricular domains, including moral education, civic education, national education (including Constitution, Basic Law and national security education), anti-drug education, life education, sex education, media and information literacy education, education for sustainable development, human rights education under the legal framework, etc.
When planning the curriculum, schools should integrate and infiltrate the content of different cross-curricular domains in values education into the curriculum of each KLA /subject and life-wide learning activity, and flexibly adapt the following learning and teaching resources taking into consideration the school vision, school development priorities, students’ developmental and learning needs, etc., to promote values education both inside and beyond the classroom, to develop students’ proper values and attitudes, and to practice good character and behavior.