中华人民共和国宪法英译本(6)
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第十九条 国家发展社会主义的教育事业，提高全国人民的科学文化水平。 Article 19 The state undertakes the development of socialist education and works to raise the scientific and cultural level of the whole nation.
国家举办各种学校，普及初等义务教育，发展中等教育、职业教育和高等教育，并且发展学前教育。 The state establishes and administers schools of various types, universalizes compulsory primary education and promotes secondary, vocational and higher education as well as preschool education.
国家发展各种教育设施，扫除文盲，对工人、农民、国家工作人员和其他劳动者进行政治、文化、科学、技术、业务的教育，鼓励自学成才。 The state develops educational facilities in order to eliminate illiteracy and provide political, scientific, technical and professional education as well as general education for workers, peasants, state functionaries and other working people. It encourages people to become educated through independent study.
国家鼓励集体经济组织、国家企业事业组织和其他社会力量依照法律规定举办各种教育事业。 The state encourages the collective economic organizations, state enterprises and institutions and other sectors of society to establish educational institutions of various types in accordance with the law.
国家全国通用的普通话。 The state promotes the nationwide use of Putonghua (common speech based on Beijing pronunciation).
第二十条 国家发展自然科学和社会科学事业，普及科学和技术知识，奖励科学研究成果和技术发明创造。 Article 20 The state promotes the development of the natural and social sciences, disseminates knowledge of science and technology, and commends and rewards achievements in scientific research as well as technological innovations and inventions.
第二十一条 国家发展医疗卫生事业，发展现代医药和我国传统医药，鼓励和支持农村集体经济组织、国家企业事业组织和街道组织举办各种医疗卫生设施，开展群众性的卫生活动，保护人民健康。 Article 21 The state develops medical and health services, promotes modern medicine and traditional Chinese medicine, encourages and supports the setting up of various medical and health facilities by the rural economic collectives, state enterprises and institutions and neighbourhood organizations, and promotes health and sanitation activities of a mass character, all for the protection of the people"s health.
国家发展体育事业，开展群众性的体育活动，增强人民体质。 The state develops physical culture and promotes mass sports activities to improve the people"s physical fitness.
第二十二条 国家发展为人民服务、为社会主义服务的文学艺术事业、新闻广播电视事业、出版发行事业、图书馆博物馆文化馆和其他文化事业，开展群众性的文化活动。 Article 22 The state promotes the development of art and literature, the press, radio and television broadcasting, publishing and distribution services, libraries, museums, cultural centres and other cultural undertakings that serve the people and socialism, and it sponsors mass cultural activities.
国家保护名胜古迹、珍贵文物和其他重要历史文化遗产。 The state protects sites of scenic and historical interest, valuable cultural monuments and relics and other significant items of China"s historical and cultural heritage.
第二十三条 国家培养为社会主义服务的各种专业人才，扩大知识分子的队伍，创造条件，充分发挥他们在社会主义现代化建设中的作用。 Article 23 The state trains specialized personnel in all fields who serve socialism, expands the ranks of intellectuals and creates conditions to give full scope to their role in socialist modernization.
第二十四条 国家通过普及理想教育、道德教育、文化教育、纪律和法制教育，通过在城乡不同范围的群众中制定和执行各种守则、公约，加强社会主义精神文明的建设。 Article 24 The state strengthens the building of a socialist society with an advanced culture and ideology by promoting education in high ideals, ethics, general knowledge, discipline and legality, and by promoting the formulation and observance of rules of conduct and common pledges by various sections of the people in urban and rural areas.
国家提倡爱祖国、爱人民、爱劳动、爱科学、爱社会主义的公德，在人民中进行爱国主义、集体主义和国际主义、共产主义的教育，进行辩证唯物主义和历史唯物主义的教育，反对资本主义的、封建主义的和其他的腐朽思想。 The state advocates the civic virtues of love of the motherland, of the people, of labour, of science and of socialism. It conducts education among the people in patriotism and collectivism, in internationalism and communism and in dialectical and historical materialism, to combat capitalist, feudal and other decadent ideas.
第二十五条 国家推行计划生育，使人口的增长同经济和社会发展计划相适应。 Article 25 The state promotes family planning so that population growth may fit the plans for economic and social development.
第二十六条 国家保护和改善生活环境和生态环境，防治污染和其他公害。 Article 26 The state protects and improves the environment in which people live and the ecological environment. It prevents and controls pollution and other public hazards.
