China's high school students may receive a "negative" list, marking a new way to promote national socialist core values education, media reported Monday.

The "negative" list, highlighted in a Saturday statement, was issued after a seminar on socialist core values education in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. The list may set bottom lines to regulate students' behavior and require them to observe rules, according to news portal thepaper.cn.

The statement did not specify what was on the list, which thepaper.cn said would be more feasible than previous education.

It also asked teachers to cite more examples to better interpret the values while promoting them, instead of traditional rote learning. The consensus will later be promoted among some 66,000 high schools across China.

It also stressed that the key point is to encourage students to practice the core values in daily life.

"Many primary and secondary students recite the socialist core values but they are too young to understand the meaning," thepaper.cn quoted a principal who attended the seminar as saying, adding that examples in daily life should be discussed in the classroom to let students better understand their meaning. 

China issued guidelines bolstering core socialist values in 2013 and required that the core values be included in the curriculum. Core socialist values include national prosperity, civility, justice and the rule of law, and patriotism and honesty.

The city of Wuhan, Hubei Province launched a campaign in October 2014, urging its residents to recite the socialist core values as part of efforts to attain the title of "national civilized city."

"We have learned the socialist core values and are required to recite them. But we only remember them for exams. We do not really understand those values," a student surnamed Liu at a high school in Beijing told the Global Times.

A Henan-based high school teacher surnamed Feng told the Global Times that her school tried to promote the values by asking students to give a feedback after learning core values via stories of local moral models.

She suggested the "negative" list should focus on students' everyday life, from avoiding cheating in exams to vandalism, "but no physical punishment should be imposed on violators."