Institutions of Higher Education Must Persist in Simultaneously Advancing the Construction of Ideological-Political Courses and the Arming of the Party’s Innovative Theories

General Secretary Xi Jinping has issued important instructions on the construction of ideological-political courses in schools, demanding persistence in simultaneously advancing the construction of ideological-political courses and the arming of the Party’s innovative theories. This not only provides a fundamental guideline for upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground to promote the connotative development of ideological-political course construction in schools on the new journey, but also offers practical direction for institutions of higher education to arm teachers and students with the Party’s innovative theories. Institutions of higher education must actively explore the path of simultaneously advancing high-quality ideological-political course construction and the arming of the Party’s innovative theories, using high-quality, distinctive ideological-political course construction as a lever to enhance the overall effectiveness of theoretical arming, and strive to promote the connotative development of school ideological-political education.

习近平总书记对学校思政课建设作出重要指示，要求坚持思政课建设与党的创新理论武装同步推进。这既为新征程上守正创新推动学校思政课建设内涵式发展提供了根本遵循，也为高校用党的创新理论武装师生提供了现实指引。高校要积极探索高质量思政课建设与党的创新理论武装同步推进的路径，以高质量特色思政课建设为牵引，提升理论武装的整体效能，着力推动学校思政教育内涵式发展。

Consolidate the Theoretical Foundation for Simultaneous Advancement

筑牢同步推进的理论基础

Adhering to guidance by scientific theory and arming with scientific theory is the cornerstone for a Marxist political party to forever maintain its advanced nature and purity, and it is also a notable political advantage of our Party. Reviewing the Party’s history, during the period of the New Democratic Revolution, the Gutian Congress [1]1 The Gutian Congress (December 1929) was a meeting of the Communist Party of China in Gutian, Fujian Province, that emphasized Party building and the political work of the Red Army, resolving issues of non-proletarian ideology within the Party. proposed eliminating various non-proletarian ideologies through intra-Party education, and the Yan’an Rectification Movement [2]2 The Yan’an Rectification Movement (1942–1944) was a Party-wide campaign to study Marxism-Leninism, correct subjectivist and sectarian tendencies, and unify ideology through criticism and self-criticism. pioneered centralized intra-Party education. After the founding of New China, successive rounds of centralized intra-Party education consistently integrated ideological education with theoretical arming, effectively enhancing the Party’s cohesion and combat effectiveness, and promoting the vigorous development of the Party’s and the people’s cause.

坚持以科学理论引领、用科学理论武装，是马克思主义政党永葆先进性纯洁性的基石，也是我们党的显著政治优势。回顾党的历史，新民主主义革命时期，古田会议提出通过党内教育肃清各种非无产阶级意识，延安整风运动开党内集中教育之先河。新中国成立后，历次党内集中教育将思想教育与理论武装始终贯穿其中，有力提升了党的凝聚力与战斗力，推动了党和人民事业的蓬勃发展。

As the main front for conducting Marxist and ideological-political education among students, ideological-political courses prominently manifest the school’s socialist orientation in running education and the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education [3]3 “Fostering virtue through education” (立德树人) is a core principle of Chinese education policy, emphasizing moral character development as the foundation of talent cultivation.. Institutions of higher education impart the Party’s innovative theories to university students through course construction and classroom teaching; this is the primary mission of ideological-political work, and moreover, the top priority in running schools, governing education, and fostering virtue through education. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that “the essence of ideological-political courses is to explain principles,” and these principles are the principles of Marxism, using the Party’s innovative theories to educate and arm teachers and students, cultivating students’ firm political stance, rigorous logical thinking, and correct value concepts. Only by profoundly elucidating the political height, theoretical depth, and value warmth of Marxism can ideological-political courses play a key role in implementing the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education.

思政课作为对学生进行马克思主义和思想政治教育的主阵地，集中彰显了学校的社会主义办学方向和立德树人的根本任务。高校通过课程建设和课堂教学向大学生传授党的创新理论，是思想政治工作的首要使命，更是办学治校和立德树人的重中之重。习近平总书记强调“思政课的本质是讲道理”，而这个道理便是马克思主义之道，是用党的创新理论教育武装师生，培育学生坚定的政治立场、严谨的逻辑思维与正确的价值理念。只有深刻阐释马克思主义的政治高度、理论深度与价值温度，思政课才能在落实立德树人根本任务中发挥关键作用。

In ideological-political course teaching, institutions of higher education must focus on excavating the essence from Marxist classic works and organically integrating it with the Party’s innovative theories. Organize teachers to conduct thematic seminars, meticulously design teaching arrangements, so that the course content possesses both theoretical depth and closeness to students’ realities, thoroughly, penetratingly, and vividly explaining the theoretical essence and ideological connotations of Marxism, enhancing the targetedness and appeal of ideological-political courses, and cultivating more new-era individuals who reassure the Party, are patriotic and dedicated, and bear the heavy responsibility of national rejuvenation.

在思政课教学中，高校要注重挖掘马克思主义经典著作中的精髓，将它与党的创新理论有机结合。组织教师开展专题研讨，精心设计教学安排，使课程内容既具有理论深度，又贴近学生实际，讲深讲透讲活马克思主义理论精髓与思想内涵，提升思政课的针对性和吸引力，培养更多让党放心、爱国奉献、担当民族复兴重任的时代新人。

Strengthen the Ideological Guidance for Simultaneous Advancement

强化同步推进的思想指引

Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, as the latest achievement in adapting Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of the times, is the fundamental ideological and action guide for rallying people’s hearts, pooling strength, and overcoming the numerous difficulties and challenges on the new journey of the New Era. Using Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to forge souls and educate people is the key requirement for the Party’s innovative theoretical arming and ideological-political course construction to advance in the same direction. As the key course for implementing the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education, the political direction of ideological-political courses must be highly consistent with the Party’s leadership and the national development strategy.

习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想作为马克思主义中国化时代化的最新成果，是凝聚人心、汇聚力量、战胜新时代新征程上重重困难和挑战的根本思想和行动指南。用习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想铸魂育人，是党的创新理论武装与思政课建设同向同行的关键要求。思政课作为落实立德树人根本任务的关键课程，政治方向必须与党的领导和国家的发展战略高度一致。

Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era provides the most solid political guidance for the construction of ideological-political courses. Strengthening the systematic teaching and academic research and interpretation of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era helps students deeply understand that the leadership of the Communist Party of China and the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics are the only way to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, thereby strengthening their correct political beliefs, comprehensively understanding contemporary China and the world, enhancing their sense of national identity, global vision, and innovative thinking, while simultaneously prompting ideological-political course teachers to continuously update their teaching concepts, methods, and content.

习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想为思政课建设提供最为坚实的政治指引。加强对习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想的体系化教学和学理化研究阐释，有助于帮助学生深刻理解中国共产党的领导、中国特色社会主义道路是实现中华民族伟大复兴的必由之路，从而坚定正确的政治信仰，全方位理解当代中国和世界，提升家国情怀、全球视野和创新思维，同时促使思政课教师不断更新教学理念、方法和内容。

In concrete practice, institutions of higher education must actively construct and meticulously build a curriculum system for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, opening up a series of special topic lectures. Invite expert scholars to deeply research and interpret Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, build a “grand ideological-political course” [4]4 The “grand ideological-political course” (大思政课) refers to an expanded approach to ideological-political education that integrates classroom teaching with social practice, diverse resources, and real-world contexts beyond traditional courses. based on the vivid practice of serving the new chapter of Chinese-path modernization, allowing students to feel the practical power of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, enhance their identification with the Party’s innovative theories, and guide them, under the direction of scientific theory, to discern the general trend of the times, grasp historical initiative, and consolidate the foundation of their thinking.

在具体实践中，高校要积极建设、精心打造习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想课程体系，开辟系列专题讲座。邀请专家学者深入研究阐释习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想，立足服务中国式现代化建设新篇章的生动实践构建“大思政课”，让学生感受习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想的实践伟力，增进对党的创新理论的认同，引导他们在科学理论指引下洞察时代大势、把握历史主动、夯实思想之基。

Ensure the Practical Effect of Simultaneous Advancement

确保同步推进的实践效果

Ideological-political courses are the main channel for the dissemination of the Party’s innovative theories. The Party’s innovative theories contain rich ideological wisdom and practical experience, and play a guiding role in national development and national rejuvenation. In the era of globalization and informatization, ideological-political courses shoulder the heavy responsibility of guiding students to distinguish right from wrong and establish correct worldviews, outlooks on life, and value systems.

思政课是党的创新理论传播的主渠道。党的创新理论蕴含着丰富的思想智慧和实践经验，对国家发展和民族复兴具有指引作用。在全球化、信息化的时代浪潮中，思政课肩负着引导学生明辨是非，树立正确世界观、人生观和价值观的重任。

Ideological-political courses must be targeted. If the teaching content is disconnected from students’ actual needs and social realities, it will be difficult to stimulate students’ learning interest and initiative, and the Party’s innovative theories will not truly take root in people’s hearts. Ideological-political courses require depth. If there is a lack of insight into and response to the deep-seated issues in students’ thinking, it will be impossible for them to truly form a high degree of identification with and firm belief in the Party’s innovative theories, thereby affecting the actual effectiveness of arming the younger generation with the Party’s innovative theories. Therefore, only by closely focusing on the hot and difficult issues that concern students, combining them with the pulse of the times, precisely selecting teaching materials and designing teaching segments, can the Party’s innovative theories radiate strong vitality in the ideological-political course classroom, enabling students to profoundly grasp their core essence and practical value, thereby achieving the goal of theoretical arming.

思政课要有针对性。如果教学内容与学生的实际需求、社会现实脱节，就难以激发学生的学习兴趣和主动性，党的创新理论也无法真正深入人心。思政课需要深入性。如果缺乏对学生思想深处问题的洞察与回应，就无法使他们真正形成对党的创新理论的高度认同和坚定信仰，进而影响党的创新理论武装青年一代的实际成效。因此，只有紧密围绕学生关心的热点难点问题，结合时代发展脉搏，精准选取教学素材、设计教学环节，才能使党的创新理论在思政课堂上焕发强大生命力，让学生深刻领悟其核心要义与实践价值，从而实现理论武装的目标。

In the teaching process, institutions of higher education must closely align with students’ ideological, learning, and life realities. Teachers must deeply understand the hot topics that students pay attention to, such as employment and entrepreneurship, scientific and technological innovation, etc., combine these topics with the Party’s innovative theories, and use vivid and lively cases to explain theoretical knowledge. Teachers should adopt diverse teaching methods, such as group discussions, scenario simulations, etc., to make vivid ideas come alive, make thorough theories thorough, and promote the genuine internalization of the Party’s innovative theories in the mind and heart.

高校在教学过程中要紧密贴近学生思想、学习与生活实际。教师要深入了解学生关注的热点话题，如就业创业、科技创新等，将这些话题与党的创新理论相结合，用生动鲜活的案例讲解理论知识。教师要采用多样化的教学方法，如小组讨论、情景模拟等，把鲜活的思想讲鲜活，把彻底的理论讲彻底，推动党的创新理论真正入脑入心。

Enhance the Level of Research and Interpretation

提升研究阐释水平

Systematization and academization are basic characteristics of all scientific theories. Systematization gives thought a rigorous structural form, making it an internally coherent, logically mutually verifying organic whole; academization elevates practical experience to the level of scientific cognition, making it a scientific theory that connects history, grasps the masses, and leads the times.

体系化、学理化是一切科学理论的基本特征。体系化使思想具有严谨的结构形式，成为内在融通、逻辑互证的有机整体；学理化使实践经验上升到科学的认知层面，成为汇通历史、掌握群众、引领时代的科学理论。

Systematization and academization are the inevitable trend for scientific theories to mature. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that the reason Marxism has such a profound influence lies in its use of deep academic principles to reveal the truth of human social development and its use of a complete system to demonstrate the scientific nature of its theory. As the latest theoretical achievement in adapting Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of the times, the development of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is a process of continuous enrichment, expansion, and ongoing systematization and academization. This thought adheres to the basic principles of Marxism, profoundly summarizes and fully utilizes the historical experience of the Party’s century-long struggle, inherits and promotes the essence of fine traditional Chinese culture, and, based on the changes in the development of the times and practice, enriches and develops Marxism with new ideological content, continuously providing correct answers that conform to China’s actual conditions and the requirements of the times to the questions of China, the world, the people, and the era, deriving scientific understanding that conforms to objective laws, forming a systematic and scientific theoretical system, and pointing the way forward for the development of China and the world in the New Era.

体系化、学理化是科学理论走向成熟的必然趋势。习近平总书记指出，马克思主义之所以影响深远，在于其以深刻的学理揭示人类社会发展的真理性、以完备的体系论证其理论的科学性。作为马克思主义中国化时代化的最新理论成果，习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想的发展就是一个不断丰富拓展并不断体系化、学理化的过程。这一思想坚持马克思主义基本原理，深刻总结和充分运用党百余年奋斗的历史经验，继承弘扬中华优秀传统文化精华，根据时代和实践发展变化，以崭新的思想内容丰富发展了马克思主义，不断对中国之问、世界之问、人民之问、时代之问作出符合中国实际和时代要求的正确回答，得出符合客观规律的科学认识，形成系统科学的理论体系，为新时代中国和世界的发展指明前进方向。

To strengthen the academization construction of Marxist theoretical teaching, research, and propaganda interpretation, institutions of higher education must actively integrate internal research resources and strive to construct a systematic, complete, and clearly layered curriculum system for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. Through collective lesson preparation, teaching seminars, and other methods, help teachers overcome the problem of only telling stories without explaining theory or failing to explain the theoretical system, ensuring that teachers can thoroughly explain the essential meaning in simple terms, and enhance the targetedness and affinity of the innovative theories.

加强马克思主义理论教学研究宣传阐释的学理化建设，高校就要积极整合校内研究资源，致力于构建系统完整、层次分明的习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想课程体系。通过集体备课、教学研讨等方式，帮助教师克服只讲故事不讲理论或讲不出理论体系的问题，确保教师能够深入浅出地讲透精神要义，增强创新理论的针对性与亲和力。

Construct the Work Pattern of the “Grand Ideological-Political Course”

构建“大思政课”工作格局

To simultaneously advance the construction of ideological-political courses and the arming with the Party’s innovative theories, it is necessary to construct a work pattern of “grand ideological-political courses.” [5]5 “Grand ideological-political courses” (大思政课) refers to a comprehensive educational approach that integrates ideological-political education across all courses, campus activities, and social practices, moving beyond the traditional single-course format. In terms of the completeness of the education system, the work pattern of “grand ideological-political courses” integrates resources from multiple aspects, building a comprehensive, multi-level educational network. This enables the construction of ideological-political courses to be synchronized with the transmission of the Party’s innovative theories across different scenarios and among different educational subjects. From the perspective of strengthening educational effectiveness, the work pattern of “grand ideological-political courses” emphasizes collaborative education. Through the coordination and cooperation of multiple departments and subjects, and targeting the characteristics and needs of different student groups, it precisely combines and disseminates the content of ideological-political courses with the Party’s innovative theories. Professional course teachers, counselors, administrative staff, and others in institutions of higher education can all integrate ideological-political elements and key points of the Party’s innovative theories into their respective positions, forming a joint force for education. This all-round educational model greatly enhances the pertinence and effectiveness of education, enabling students to actively explore the Party’s innovative theories and the connotations of ideological-political courses, thereby transforming theory into practical action and value pursuits, and effectively improving students’ ideological-political literacy and comprehensive abilities.

同步推进思政课建设和党的创新理论武装，必须构建“大思政课”工作格局。就教育体系完整性而言，“大思政课”工作格局整合多方面资源，构建起全方位、多层次的教育网络。这使得思政课建设能够与党的创新理论在不同场景、不同教育主体间同步传递。从强化教育效果来看，“大思政课”工作格局强调协同育人。通过多部门、多主体的协作配合，针对不同学生群体的特点和需求，精准地将思政课内容与党的创新理论相结合并进行传播。高校专业课教师、辅导员、行政管理人员等，都能在各自岗位上融入思政元素与党的创新理论要点，形成育人合力。这种全方位的育人模式极大地提高了教育的针对性和有效性，使学生主动探索党的创新理论与思政课内涵，进而将理论转化为实际行动和价值追求，切实提升学生的思想政治素养与综合能力。

In the construction of ideological-political courses, institutions of higher education must adhere to the requirement of unifying theory and practice. They should closely combine the small classroom of ideological-political courses with the big classroom of society, organizing students to visit patriotic education bases, high-tech enterprises, and other sites, so that students can experience the great achievements of the New Era in practice, stimulate their patriotic feelings and striving spirit, guide them to perceive the practical power of the Party’s innovative theories, strengthen their ideals and convictions, and enhance their confidence in realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

在思政课建设中，高校要坚持理论性与实践性相统一的要求。将思政小课堂与社会大课堂紧密结合，组织学生参观爱国主义教育基地、高新技术企业等，让学生在实践中感受新时代的伟大成就，激发学生的爱国情怀与奋斗精神，引导学生感悟党的创新理论的实践伟力，坚定理想信念，增强对实现中华民族伟大复兴的信心。

Provide Solid Guarantees for Simultaneous Advancement

提供同步推进的坚实保障

In the process of simultaneously advancing the construction of ideological-political courses and the arming with the Party’s innovative theories, teachers of ideological-political courses bear significant responsibility and are important leaders in the construction of ideological-political courses. Because they possess systematic knowledge of Marxist theory and profound ideological-political education literacy, they can guide the entire faculty and student body to deeply explore the ideological-political elements contained in various professional courses. At the same time, they can bidirectionally integrate ideological-political elements into the teaching systems of both ideological-political courses and professional courses, breaking down the barriers between ideological-political courses and professional courses, constructing an all-round pattern of curriculum-based ideological-political education, and achieving coordinated development between the construction of ideological-political courses and professional education under the arming with the Party’s innovative theories.

在思政课建设与党的创新理论同步推进的过程中，思政课教师责任重大，是思政课建设的重要引领者。因为他们具备系统的马克思主义理论知识与深厚的思想政治教育素养，能够指导全校师生深入挖掘各类专业课中蕴含的思政元素。同时，将思政元素双向融入思政课和专业课教学体系，打破思政课与专业课之间的壁垒，构建起全方位的课程思政育人格局，实现思政课建设与专业课教育在党的创新理论武装下协同发展。

Teachers of ideological-political courses are professional disseminators of the Party’s innovative theories. They stand at the forefront of ideological-political education, relying on their in-depth research and precise grasp of the Party’s innovative theories to provide high-quality theoretical explanation and interpretation for the entire faculty and student body, laying a solid ideological and theoretical foundation for cultivating socialist builders and successors who are well-developed morally, intellectually, physically, aesthetically, and labor-wise.

思政课教师是党的创新理论的专业传播者。他们站在思想政治教育的前沿阵地，凭借对党的创新理论的深入研究与精准把握，为全校师生提供高质量的理论阐释与解读，为培养德智体美劳全面发展的社会主义建设者和接班人奠定坚实的思想理论基础。

Institutions of higher education must attach great importance to the construction of the team of ideological-political course teachers. They should strictly enforce the teacher access mechanism, selecting teachers with firm beliefs, profound knowledge, and deep theoretical foundations. They should vigorously carry out theoretical training and teaching methodology training, regularly organizing academic seminars, teaching observation activities, etc., to enhance teachers’ ideological-political quality, theoretical quality, and teaching level. They should improve the incentive mechanism, giving commendations and rewards to teachers with outstanding teaching achievements, while also establishing an exit mechanism to ensure the high-quality development of the teacher team. Institutions of higher education must build a team of ideological-political course teachers who are politically strong, have deep feelings, innovative thinking, broad vision, strict self-discipline, and upright character, providing guarantees for using the Party’s innovative theoretical achievements to educate and guide students.

高校要高度重视思政课教师队伍建设。严格教师准入机制，选拔信仰坚定、学识渊博、理论功底深厚的教师。大力开展理论培训和教学教法培训，通过定期组织学术研讨会、教学观摩活动等，提升教师的思想政治素质、理论素质和教学水平。完善激励机制，对教学成果突出的教师给予表彰奖励，同时建立退出机制，确保教师队伍的高质量发展。高校要打造一支政治强、情怀深、思维新、视野广、自律严、人格正的思政课教师队伍，为用党的创新理论成果教育引导学生提供保障。

In summary, the simultaneous advancement of the construction of ideological-political courses and the arming with the Party’s innovative theories in institutions of higher education is an important task entrusted by the times. Shouldering the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education, [6]6 “Fostering virtue through education” (立德树人) is a fundamental task of Chinese education, emphasizing the cultivation of moral character and the nurturing of talent, as repeatedly stressed by the Party leadership. institutions of higher education should deeply comprehend General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions on the construction of ideological-political courses in schools, continuously innovate the construction model of ideological-political courses, improve the effectiveness of arming with the Party’s innovative theories, and make unremitting efforts to cultivate socialist builders and successors who are well-developed morally, intellectually, physically, aesthetically, and labor-wise.

总之，高校坚持思政课建设与党的创新理论武装同步推进，是时代赋予的重任。肩负立德树人根本任务，高校应深刻领会习近平总书记对学校思政课建设作出的重要指示，不断创新思政课建设模式，提高党的创新理论武装实效，为培养德智体美劳全面发展的社会主义建设者和接班人不懈努力。

(The author is the Party Secretary of Hebei University of Technology)

（作者系河北工业大学党委书记）

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