Chinese President Xi Jinping has underscored the importance of building a collaborative education mechanism among schools, families and society in relevant work, to guide the minors to establish lofty ideals, practice core socialist values and develop good moral qualities and behavioral habits.

Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks in a recent instruction on the issue.

Stressing that it should be carried out as a strategic and fundamental task, Xi called for joint efforts to create a healthy social environment conducive to the growth of minors.

Efforts should also be made to nurture a new generation of capable young people with strong moral grounding, intellectual ability, physical vigor, aesthetic sensibility and work skills, who will contribute to socialist modernization and carry forward the socialist cause, according to Xi's instruction.

Xi's instruction was conveyed at a symposium on improving the intellectual and moral standards of minors held in Beijing on Monday.

Cai Qi, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and a member of the CPC Central Committee Secretariat, attended the meeting and delivered a speech.

Cai stressed the need to strengthen family education, make sustained efforts to provide children with high-quality cultural products and services, and improve minors' internet literacy.

He also urged faster progress in the development of a mental health service system for minors, as well as stronger protection of minors and prevention of juvenile delinquency.

The symposium was presided over by Li Shulei.

(With input from Xinhua)