This research aims to study the effectiveness of the patriotic education in China. It is well-known that the patriotic education has been an essential part of the propaganda campaigns launched by the CCP since 1949. While it is a widely accepted that the patriotic education had great influence on the nationalism in modern Chinese society, it is still not very clear that how the patriotic education influenced people’s mind as most of the previous researches focus on the intention of the CCP’s patriotic education.

 This research examines the effect of the patriotic education by studying the teachers’ own perception of patriotic education and their educational practice during the summer camp as well as the intention of the CCP’s cadres who organized the summer camp.

 With the examination conducted above, this research indicates that besides the normal education activities, material incentive implemented during the summer camp is also an important factor which worked as an encouragement to those students.