Publishing Opinions by the State-run Office of China to Deepen the Reform and Innovation of Ideological and Political Theory Courses in Schools in the New Era

       2019 is an important year for ideological and political course construction. The Party Central Committee, with Comrade Xi Jinping as its core, pays attention to top-level design and makes a series of decisions and deployments for ideological and political course construction. Recently, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council issued "Several Opinions on Deepening the Reform and Innovation of Ideological and Political Theory Course in New Age Schools" (hereinafter referred to as "Opinions"), which provided specific guidance for deepening the reform and innovation of Ideological and political theory course in the new era. The author believes that Opinions can be divided into five aspects, which not only provides a macro-theoretical guidance for the reform and innovation of Ideological and political courses in the new era, but also points out the specific path and method for the construction of Ideological and political courses. Holding firmly to the main line of the Party's Leadership provides a fundamental guarantee for the reform and innovation of Ideological and political courses to move forward in the correct political direction and the correct value orientation.

       In the new era, the Party's programmatic literature plays a leading role in the construction of Ideological and political courses. "Party, government, military and civil studies, East, West, North and South, the Party is leading everything." Many new changes have taken place in the field of education in the new era. The discipline system, academic system and discourse system of Ideological and political course construction are facing the test of reform and innovation. The CPC Central Committee, with Comrade Xi Jinping as its core, constantly strengthens the top-level design and plans the construction of Ideological and political courses from the overall and strategic level, which deeply reflects the Party's new understanding of the construction of Ideological and political courses in the new era, as well as the new ideas for the reform and innovation of Ideological and political courses. Generally speaking, the Party's leadership of Ideological and political courses has entered a new era of overall leadership, led by macro-concept. This is not only the need of innovation in the times, but also the self-transcendence of the problem consciousness and goal consciousness brought about by the ideological and political course itself. In the teaching and research of Ideological and political courses, how to strengthen the ideological and institutional innovation of the Party's overall leadership in the Opinions not only has an important guiding significance for the ideological and political course construction itself, but also has a very important demonstration significance for strengthening the exploration of the Party's leadership experience. It is also a new era for the Party to give full play to the ideological and political course construction. Programmatic literature on leadership.

       Integrate ideological and political course construction into the normalization work of local Party committees. As the leading force of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, the local Party committees should shoulder the main responsibility for the construction of Ideological and political courses. This Opinion clearly points out that local Party committees at all levels should put the construction of Ideological and political courses on an important agenda as a landmark project of the Party's construction and ideological work. The Standing Committee of the Party Committee holds at least one special meeting every year to study the construction of Ideological and political courses, grasps the outstanding problems that restrict the construction of Ideological and political courses, and in the working pattern, Effective measures should be taken in team building, support and guarantee. At the same time, in terms of specific system construction, it is clearly proposed to establish and improve the system of contacting members of the leading group of Party committees of provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) with colleges and universities and lecturing ideological and political courses, especially "situation and policy" courses. The Party committees and government of provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) are mainly responsible for comrades to lecture at least once a semester 。 It can be said that "Opinions" makes the above-mentioned conceptual positioning and institutional arrangements for the relationship between the local Party committees and the ideological and political course construction, which not only gives the local Party committees the power to grasp the ideological and political course construction, but also clarifies the specific responsibilities, reflects the unity of power and responsibility, and effectively integrates the ideological and political course construction into the normalized work of the local Party committees.

       To give clear methodological guidance to the participation of Party committees in the construction of Ideological and political courses in Colleges and universities. The "Opinions" establishes and improves the mechanism of Ideological and political courses led by the Party committee secretary and the principal in Colleges and universities. "Opinions" put forward that we should improve the institutional arrangements of Party Committee secretary, principal and functional departments in Colleges and universities to deeply understand students'ideological trends and serve students' development. As the first person responsible for the construction of Ideological and political courses, the Secretary and President of the Party Committee of colleges and universities should take the lead in attending classes, promoting the construction of Ideological and political courses and contacting teachers of Ideological and political courses in the light of their own disciplinary background and work experience. We should make full use of the favorable conditions to carry out ideological and political education, such as the opening ceremony, graduation speech, etc. We should clearly embody the Party's educational policy, actively disseminate Marxist scientific theory, and carry forward socialist core values. In setting up the evaluation system, we should constantly innovate in line with the needs of the times, and incorporate the construction of Ideological and political courses into the evaluation standard system of Party building, school running quality and subject construction in schools. These specific institutional arrangements have created good organizational guarantee conditions for the construction of Ideological and political courses in Colleges and universities, and also put forward clear requirements for the support of Party committee secretaries and principals in the construction of Ideological and political courses in Colleges and universities. At the same time, they have provided clear methodological guidance for the participation of Party committees in the construction of Ideological and political courses in Colleges and universities. These systems with new historical characteristics are unprecedented in the history of Ideological and political course construction in China. Effective participation of Party committee secretary and principal will play a leading role in Ideological and political course construction in Colleges and universities in the future.

       To plan the practice of Ideological and political course construction with the view of history, and actively expand the new pattern of Ideological and political course construction. The construction of Ideological and political course is not a soldier-to-soldier battle, but an important part of the Party's educational work. It should be planned in the overall layout of the cause of socialist construction with Chinese characteristics, in the setting of the whole educational system and in the various historical stages of talent growth, so as to form a systematic construction of ideological and political course. System.  The Opinion clearly points out that the leading group of the central education work should put the construction of Ideological and political courses on an important agenda, and the Ministry of Education, the Central Propaganda Department and other departments should take the lead in the construction of Ideological and political courses. In the construction of the supporting system of the ideological and political course, Opinions has also made operable arrangements, requiring relevant departments and regions to ensure that the ideological and political course management personnel are equipped to ensure that personnel are engaged and accountable. We should institutionalize the experience we have explored for many years, such as insisting on opening ideological and political courses, promoting the combination of practical teaching of Ideological and political courses with students'social practice activities and voluntary service activities, combining small classes of Ideological and political education with large classes of society, encouraging Party and government organs, enterprises and institutions to connect with universities nearby, and listing for the establishment of practical teaching of Ideological and political courses. Base, improve the ideological and political practice teaching mechanism. From the above content, the construction of Ideological and political course emphasizes not only the systematization of top-level design, but also the systematization of the evaluation mechanism of the effect of Ideological and political course construction, and at the same time, the systematization of integrating various forces involved in the construction of Ideological and political course. At the same time, we can see that "Opinions" plans the practice of Ideological and political course construction with a big historical view, and tries to figure out the ideological and political course construction ideological system in which the ideological and political course education concept and the historical view in the ideological and political course education are interdependent.

       Source: People's Network