Dual-circuit penitentiary model of the PRC

China attracts attention not only because of its production facilities and sociotechnical solutions, but also due to its original goal-setting. In the PRC, the party took responsibility for building a moderately prosperous socialist society, for creating a new world order. Chinese-style modernization is the comprehensive deepening of reforms through the systemic integration of the most multidirectional principles. In the PRC, they like to combine a variety of goal-setting, calling them «five in one,» «four comprehensive measures,» etc. Chinese ideologists proceed from the fact that only the emancipation of the mind and the promotion of new ideas can contribute to better adaptation of industrial relations and labor productivity, development of national management and social development. Progress, constant reforms, openness, the legacy of Mao Zedong and the ideas of Deng Xiaoping — how do these so multidirectional concepts combine in Chinese ideology? The paper examines the implementation of this Taoist-Confucian-Marxist dialectic using the example of the penal system of the PRC. The purpose of the article: to study the features of educational work with convicts in the Chinese penitentiary system. The research methodology relies on international legal analysis of the regulation of the rights and freedoms of persons serving sentences, on media analytics of self-representations of Chinese penitentiary institutions. The study examines the challenges and practices of optimizing the experience of the penitentiary services in organizing educational, social and patriotic work with employees for informational purposes, because it is likely that China will act as a new model of stability in the current geopolitical situation.