Chairman Mao recognised the importance of youths and children as successors of the revolution. This porcelain bust is of a boy wearing a Young Pioneer uniform as identified by the red scarf. Young Pioneers is a youth organisation for children in the People's Republic of China. They comprise children from the ages of six to fourteen. At 14, they may go on to join the Communist Youth League. The Young Pioneers were later replaced by the Little Red Guards, who were the younger Red Guards.
