The Children's Palace (in ) is a public facility in China where children engage in extra-curricular activities.

History and activity

The

Pioneer movement A pioneer movement is an organization for children operated by a communist party. Typically children enter into the organization in elementary school and continue until adolescence. The adolescents then typically join the Young Communist Leagu ...

and

Pioneers Palace Young Pioneer Palaces or Palaces of Young Pioneers and Schoolchildren were youth centers designated for the creative work, sport training and extracurricular activities of Young Pioneers and other schoolchildren. Young Pioneer Palaces originate ...

of the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

which began in 1930 spread to other Socialist countries, such as the

People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, most populous country, with a Population of China, population exceeding 1.4 billion, sli ...

, where they are called Children's Palaces. At a Children's Palace, the Chinese youth engage in extra-curricular activities, such as learning music, foreign languages, and computing skills, and doing sports. In larger cities, each

district A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municipa ...

has set up its own Children's Palace, while there is also a City Children's Palace whose larger

auditorium An auditorium is a room built to enable an audience to hear and watch performances. For movie theatres, the number of auditoria (or auditoriums) is expressed as the number of screens. Auditoria can be found in entertainment venues, communit ...

and

planetarium A planetarium ( planetariums or ''planetaria'') is a theatre built primarily for presenting educational and entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky, or for training in celestial navigation. A dominant feature of most planetarium ...

are shared by the children of all the City's Districts.Shahekou District Children's Palace
(in Chinese)

References

External links

Guangzhou City Children's Palace
(in Chinese) {{Pioneer movement Pioneer movement Communist Youth League of China