Article 1   This Law is enacted in accordance with the Constitution for the purpose of protecting the physical and mental health of minors, safeguarding their lawful rights and interests, promoting their all-round development -- morally, intellectually and physically, and training them into successors to the socialist cause with lofty ideals, sound morality, better education and a good sense of discipline.
        Article 2   Minors as used in this Law refer to citizens under the age of eighteen.
        Article 3   The State, society, schools and families shall educate minors in ideals, morality, culture, discipline and legal system as well as in patriotism, collectivism, internationalism and communism, foster among them the social ethics of loving the motherland, the people, labour, science and socialism, and fight against the corrosive influences of bourgeois, feudal and other decadent ideologies.
        Article 4   The protection of minors shall follow the following principles:
        (1) safeguarding the lawful rights and interests of minors;
        (2) respecting the personal dignity of minors;
        (3) fitting in with the characteristics of minors' physical and mental development; and