Practical Pathways for Enhancing the Leading Role of Ideological and Political Education in the Context of Building an Education Powerhouse

“Building China into an education powerhouse is a long-cherished aspiration of the Chinese nation in modern times, and it is a pioneering task, a solid foundation, and a strategic support for comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation through Chinese-path modernization. We must make solid progress toward the established goals.”[1]1 Xi Jinping, “Speech at the National Education Conference,” September 9-10, 2024. [n] The “six capabilities” (六力) refer to the six strengths listed: ideological and political leadership, talent competitiveness, scientific and technological support, livelihood security, social synergy, and international influence. Xi Jinping pointed out at the National Education Conference: “The education powerhouse we aim to build is a socialist education powerhouse with Chinese characteristics, which should possess a strong leading role in ideological and political education, talent competitiveness, scientific and technological support, livelihood security, social synergy, and international influence, so as to provide strong support for comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation through Chinese-path modernization.”[1]1 Xi Jinping, “Speech at the National Education Conference,” September 9-10, 2024. [n] The “six capabilities” (六力) refer to the six strengths listed: ideological and political leadership, talent competitiveness, scientific and technological support, livelihood security, social synergy, and international influence. Placing the leading role of ideological and political education at the forefront of the “six capabilities” that constitute the scientific connotation of an education powerhouse highlights the role of ideological and political work as an important means of governance for our Party, serving as the “lifeline” in the construction of a socialist education powerhouse with Chinese characteristics. On the new journey of the New Era, facing the major issue of what kind of education powerhouse to build and how to build it, we must take an accurate grasp of the value orientation of the leading role of ideological and political education in the construction of an education powerhouse as the logical starting point, deeply explore the multidimensional pathways for enhancing this leading role in the context of building an education powerhouse, and empower the steady and sustained progress of the education powerhouse with a strong leading role in ideological and political education.

“建成教育强国是近代以来中华民族梦寐以求的美好愿望，是实现以中国式现代化全面推进强国建设、民族复兴伟业的先导任务、坚实基础、战略支撑，必须朝着既定目标扎实迈进。”[1]习近平在全国教育大会上指出：“我们要建成的教育强国，是中国特色社会主义教育强国，应当具有强大的思政引领力、人才竞争力、科技支撑力、民生保障力、社会协同力、国际影响力，为以中国式现代化全面推进强国建设、民族复兴伟业提供有力支撑。”[1]将思政引领力置于教育强国科学内涵“六力”之首，突出了思想政治工作作为我们党治国理政的重要方式，在中国特色社会主义教育强国建设中发挥的“生命线”作用。新时代新征程，面对建设什么样的教育强国、怎样建设教育强国这一重大课题，须以准确把握思政引领力在教育强国建设中的价值定位为逻辑起点，深入探究教育强国背景下提升思政引领力的多维路径，以强大的思政引领力赋能教育强国行稳致远。

I. The Value Orientation of the Leading Role of Ideological and Political Education in the Construction of an Education Powerhouse

一、思政引领力在教育强国建设中的价值定位

“Ideological and political work is a fine tradition, a distinctive feature, and a prominent political advantage of our Party, and it is the lifeline of all work.”[2]2 Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, “Opinions on Strengthening and Improving Ideological and Political Work in the New Era,” July 2021. The “leading role of ideological and political education” signifies the capacity and endowment of ideological and political work, as an important means of governance for our Party, to guide the direction and set the course for the education powerhouse. The proposal of this emblematic category marks the Party’s increasingly profound understanding of the laws governing ideological and political work, and it is a high-level refinement and summary of the value orientation of ideological and political work in the construction of an education powerhouse.

“思想政治工作是党的优良传统、鲜明特色和突出政治优势，是一切工作的生命线。”[2]“思政引领力”所表征的是思想政治工作作为我们党治国理政的重要方式，为教育强国指引方向、把关定向的能力禀赋，这一具有标识性范畴的提出，标志着我们党对思想政治工作规律的认识愈益深刻，是对思想政治工作在教育强国建设中价值定位的高度提炼和概括。

(1) The Leading Role of Ideological and Political Education Manifests the Political Attribute of the Education Powerhouse

（一）思政引领力彰显教育强国的政治属性

“The education powerhouse we aim to build is a socialist education powerhouse with Chinese characteristics.”[1]1 Xi Jinping, “Speech at the National Education Conference,” September 9-10, 2024. [n] The “six capabilities” (六力) refer to the six strengths listed: ideological and political leadership, talent competitiveness, scientific and technological support, livelihood security, social synergy, and international influence. This important statement fully demonstrates and confirms the institutional attribute of the education powerhouse. The question of direction is a fundamental one; “socialism with Chinese characteristics” determines the socialist orientation of the construction of the education powerhouse. The leading role of ideological and political education, as the foremost connotation of the education powerhouse, centrally embodies the political attribute of education. It is an important factor in promoting the close integration of education and politics, and it is also the internal driving force for advancing education to serve the people, serve the governance of the country by the Communist Party of China, serve the consolidation and development of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, and serve reform and opening up and socialist modernization. The generation and development of a strong leading role in ideological and political education inevitably require integrating ideological and political work into all fields and aspects of the construction of the education powerhouse, fully leveraging the role of ideological and political work in unifying thought, building consensus, inspiring morale, and uniting efforts, thereby consolidating the Party’s leadership and initiative over educational work and ensuring the socialist orientation of the construction of the education powerhouse. Unity in thought is an important prerequisite for conscious action. A strong leading role in ideological and political education can consolidate the guiding position of Marxism in the ideological domain, consolidate the common ideological foundation for the united struggle of the entire Party and the people of the whole country, gather ideological consensus, pool development synergy, and concentrate the strength of the whole society to jointly build an education powerhouse. The leading role of ideological and political education not only defines the goals and direction of the construction of the education powerhouse but also provides spiritual impetus for its construction, ensuring that it always advances along the correct political direction.

“我们要建成的教育强国，是中国特色社会主义教育强国”[1]。这一重要论述充分彰显和确认了教育强国的制度属性。方向问题是根本性的问题，“中国特色社会主义”决定了教育强国建设的社会主义方向。思政引领力作为教育强国内涵之首，集中体现了教育的政治属性，是促进教育与政治紧密结合的重要因素，亦是推动教育为人民服务、为中国共产党治国理政服务、为巩固和发展中国特色社会主义制度服务、为改革开放和社会主义现代化建设服务的内在动力。强大思政引领力的生成和发展，必然要求把思想政治工作贯穿于教育强国建设的各领域各方面，充分发挥思想政治工作统一思想、凝聚共识、鼓舞斗志、团结奋斗的作用，进而巩固党对教育工作的领导权和主动权，确保教育强国建设的社会主义方向。思想统一是行动自觉的重要前提，强大的思政引领力能够巩固马克思主义在意识形态领域的指导地位，巩固全党全国人民团结奋斗的共同思想基础，凝聚思想共识、汇聚发展合力，集中全社会力量共建教育强国。思政引领力不仅规定了教育强国建设的目标方向，并且为教育强国建设提供精神动力，推动教育强国建设始终沿着正确的政治方向前进。

(2) The Leading Role of Ideological and Political Education Sets the Direction for Talent Cultivation in the Education Powerhouse

（二）思政引领力把准教育强国人才培养方向

What kind of people to cultivate, how to cultivate them, and for whom to cultivate them are fundamental questions in education. “China is a socialist country under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, which determines that our education must take cultivating builders and successors for socialism as its fundamental task, cultivating generation after generation of useful talents who support the leadership of the Communist Party of China and China’s socialist system and are determined to dedicate their lives to the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics.”[3]3 Xi Jinping, “Speech at the National Education Conference,” September 10, 2018. “Our education must never cultivate destroyers and gravediggers of socialism.”[4]4 Xi Jinping, *Excerpts from Xi Jinping’s Discourses on Ideological and Political Work*, Central Party Literature Press, 2020.6 Xi Jinping’s important statements clearly indicate the fundamental direction and stance of talent cultivation in schools at all levels and of all types in our country, emphasizing that the goal of talent cultivation in our country is to uphold the leadership of the Communist Party of China, serve the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and provide talent support for the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, the building of a strong country, and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The leading role of ideological and political education manifests the ideological nature of education, highlights the socialist foundation of education, and strengthens the essence of fostering virtue through education. By leveraging the guiding role of ideological and political work, it ensures the direction of talent cultivation in the education powerhouse and plays a key role in steering and piloting talent cultivation. “Ideological and political work is fundamentally about working with people”[4]4 Xi Jinping, *Excerpts from Xi Jinping’s Discourses on Ideological and Political Work*, Central Party Literature Press, 2020.146, and it can continuously improve the ideological level, political awareness, moral character, and cultural literacy of the educated, guiding them to strengthen their faith in Marxism, their belief in socialism with Chinese characteristics, and their confidence in the Chinese Dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, making them generation after generation of qualified builders and reliable successors of socialism with Chinese characteristics. The stronger the leading role of ideological and political work, the more steadfast the direction of talent cultivation in the education powerhouse becomes.

培养什么人、怎样培养人、为谁培养人是教育的根本问题。“我国是中国共产党领导的社会主义国家，这就决定了我们的教育必须把培养社会主义建设者和接班人作为根本任务，培养一代又一代拥护中国共产党领导和我国社会主义制度、立志为中国特色社会主义事业奋斗终身的有用人才。”[3]“我们的教育绝不能培养社会主义破坏者和掘墓人。”[4]6习近平的重要论述鲜明地表明了我国各级各类学校人才培养的根本方向和立场，强调了我国人才培养的目标是维护中国共产党领导、服务中国特色社会主义事业，为中国特色社会主义事业和强国建设、民族复兴伟业提供人才支撑。思政引领力彰显教育的意识形态性，亮明教育的社会主义底色，厚植立德树人本色，通过发挥思想政治工作的引领作用确保教育强国人才培养方向，在人才培养中发挥领航掌舵的关键作用。“思想政治工作从根本上说是做人的工作”[4]146，能够不断提高受教育者的思想水平、政治觉悟、道德品质、文化素养，引导受教育者坚定对马克思主义的信仰、对中国特色社会主义的信念、对中华民族伟大复兴中国梦的信心，成为一代又一代中国特色社会主义合格建设者和可靠接班人。思想政治工作的引领力量越强大，教育强国的人才培养方向随之就愈加坚定。

(3) The Leading Role of Ideological and Political Education Promotes the Construction of the Strategic Layout of the Education Powerhouse

（三）思政引领力推动构建教育强国的战略布局

“To anchor the goal of building an education powerhouse by 2035, we must look at education from beyond education, examine education from the overall situation, and consider education from a long-term perspective.”[5]5 Xi Jinping, “Speech at the Fifth Collective Study Session of the 20th Central Politburo,” May 29, 2023. On the new journey of the New Era, we must stand at the strategic height of building a strong country and achieving national rejuvenation, viewing the fundamental and pioneering role of education from a holistic perspective. “We must thoroughly implement the strategy of invigorating China through science and education, the strategy of strengthening the nation through talent, and the innovation-driven development strategy, coordinate and advance the integrated reform of the systems and mechanisms for education, science and technology, and talent, improve the new nationwide system for mobilizing resources, and enhance the overall efficiency of the national innovation system.”[6]6 Xi Jinping, “Explanation of the ‘Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Further Deepening Reform Comprehensively to Advance Chinese Modernization’,” July 2024. [n] The “new nationwide system for mobilizing resources” (新型举国体制) refers to a state-led mechanism for concentrating resources on strategic technological breakthroughs, updated for the market economy era.13 Accurately grasping the internal connections and developmental logic among education, science and technology, and talent, and constructing a strategic layout that coordinates and advances education, science and technology, and talent as an integrated whole, can provide new momentum and new advantages for high-quality development of education. The leading role of ideological and political education plays a “threading the needle” function in coordinating and advancing the integrated reform of the systems and mechanisms for education, science and technology, and talent. It links education, science and technology, and talent together, forming an internally consistent and mutually supportive complex system, creating a multiplier effect for promoting the construction of an education powerhouse. Serving high-quality development is an important strategic task in building an education powerhouse. “We must adhere to high-quality development as the lifeline of education at all levels and of all types, and accelerate the construction of a high-quality education system.”[7]7 Xi Jinping, “Report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China,” October 16, 2022. Only with a strong leading role in ideological and political education as a guarantee can we firmly grasp the political attribute of education, promote the high-quality cultivation of new-era talents, support high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening with a talent team, lead the new round of scientific and technological revolution, and meet the people’s new expectations for education. Only then can education, science and technology, and talent jointly advance the realization of the goals of Chinese-path modernization in their integrated development.

“锚定2035年建成教育强国目标，必须跳出教育看教育、立足全局看教育、着眼长远看教育”[5]。新时代新征程，必须要站在强国建设和民族复兴的战略高度，以全局视角看待教育发挥的基础性、先导性作用。“必须深入实施科教兴国战略、人才强国战略、创新驱动发展战略，统筹推进教育科技人才体制机制一体改革，健全新型举国体制，提升国家创新体系整体效能。”[6]13准确把握教育、科技、人才三者内在联系和发展逻辑，构建教育、科技、人才一体统筹推进的战略布局，方能为教育高质量发展提供新动能新优势。思政引领力在统筹推进教育科技人才体制机制一体改革中具有“穿针引线”的作用，其把教育、科技、人才串联起来，使三者形成内在一致、相互支撑的复杂系统，形成推动教育强国建设的倍增效应。服务高质量发展是教育强国建设的重要战略任务，“要坚持把高质量发展作为各级各类教育的生命线，加快建设高质量教育体系”[7]。以强大思政引领力为保障，方能牢牢把握教育的政治属性，促进时代新人高质量培育，以人才队伍支撑高水平科技自立自强，引领新一轮科技革命，满足人民对教育的新期盼，如此，教育、科技和人才才能在一体化发展中共同推进中国式现代化目标的实现。

II. Effective Pathways for Enhancing the Leading Role of Ideological and Political Education in the Context of Building an Education Powerhouse

二、教育强国背景下提升思政引领力的有效路径

Enhancing the leading role of ideological and political education in the context of building an education powerhouse is a systematic project. It is necessary to explore the practical pathways for forming a strong leading role in ideological and political education from a broader perspective, a higher standpoint, and more diverse dimensions. We must strengthen political leadership to ensure the correct direction of the education powerhouse, strengthen value leadership to establish the value stance of the education powerhouse, strengthen institutional leadership to promote the effective implementation of the leading role of ideological and political education, strengthen curriculum leadership to grasp the important lever of the education powerhouse, and strengthen team leadership to consolidate the forces for building the education powerhouse, thereby building an education powerhouse with a strong leading role in ideological and political education.

教育强国背景下提升思政引领力是一项系统工程，必须以更宽广的视域、更高远的站位、更多样的维度探究强大思政引领力形成的实践路径。要通过强化政治引领坚定教育强国的正确方向，强化价值引领站稳教育强国价值立场，强化制度引领推动思政引领力落地见效，强化课程引领把牢教育强国重要抓手，强化队伍引领凝聚教育强国建设力量，建成具有强大思政引领力的教育强国。

(1) Strengthen Political Leadership to Ensure the Correct Direction of the Education Powerhouse

（一）强化政治引领，坚定教育强国的正确方向

“The strong educational country we aim to build is a strong socialist educational country with Chinese characteristics.”[1]1 Xi Jinping, “Speech at the National Education Conference,” September 9-10, 2024. [n] The “six capabilities” (六力) refer to the six strengths listed: ideological and political leadership, talent competitiveness, scientific and technological support, livelihood security, social synergy, and international influence. Adhering to the socialist orientation is a fundamental issue that must be grasped in building a strong educational country. Since the New Era, Xi Jinping’s important discourses on education have provided theoretical guidance and practical follow-through for stabilizing the fundamental direction of building a strong educational country. It is necessary to uphold the Party’s overall leadership over educational work, take Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as the guide, strengthen and improve the Party’s ideological and political work, enhance political, ideological, theoretical, and emotional identification with the leadership of the Communist Party of China and socialism with Chinese characteristics, and ensure that the building of a strong educational country always advances in the correct political direction.

“我们要建成的教育强国，是中国特色社会主义教育强国”[1]，坚持社会主义方向是建设教育强国必须把握的根本性问题。新时代以来，习近平关于教育的重要论述为把稳教育强国建设的根本方向提供了理论指导和实践遵循。要坚持党对教育事业的全面领导，以习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想为指导以及加强和改善党的思想政治工作，增进对中国共产党领导和中国特色社会主义的政治认同、思想认同、理论认同和情感认同，确保教育强国建设始终遵循正确的政治方向前进。

First, uphold the Party’s overall leadership over educational work. “Strengthening the Party’s overall leadership over educational work is the fundamental guarantee for running education well.”[3]3 Xi Jinping, “Speech at the National Education Conference,” September 10, 2018. Only by upholding the Party’s overall leadership can we ensure that the socialist orientation of building a strong educational country does not waver, that the original aspiration of educating people for the Party and cultivating talent for the country does not fade, and that the mission of training socialist builders and successors does not change. It is necessary to firmly grasp the Party’s leadership over educational work, always adhere to the Party’s core role in exercising overall leadership and coordinating all efforts, continuously improve the educational leadership system in which the Party committee exercises unified leadership, the Party and government work together to manage, and departments assume their respective responsibilities, uphold and improve the system of the president assuming responsibility under the leadership of the Party committee in higher education institutions, promote the establishment of a system of the principal assuming responsibility under the leadership of the Party organization in primary and secondary schools, and consolidate the core leadership forces at all levels for building a strong educational country. It is necessary to resolutely implement the Party Central Committee’s decisions and deployments on educational work, integrate the Party’s educational policies into the entire process and all aspects of education and teaching, embed the Party’s will into the vivid practice of educational development, fully leverage the Party’s significant advantage of “rallying people,” unite multiple forces such as families, schools, and society, and strive to build a grand pattern of all-staff, whole-process, and all-round education, forming a powerful force for building a strong educational country.

第一，坚持党对教育事业的全面领导。“加强党对教育工作的全面领导，是办好教育的根本保证。”[3]只有坚持党的全面领导，才能保证教育强国建设的社会主义方向不动摇，为党育人、为国育才的初心不褪色，培养社会主义建设者和接班人的使命不改变。要牢牢掌握党对教育工作的领导权，始终坚持党总揽全局、协调各方的核心地位，不断完善党委统一领导、党政齐抓共管、部门各负其责的教育领导体制，坚持和完善高校党委领导下的校长负责制，推动中小学建立党组织领导的校长负责制，巩固教育强国建设的各级领导核心力量。要坚决贯彻落实党对教育工作的决策部署，将党的教育方针融入教育教学全过程、各方面，将党的意志贯穿到教育事业发展的生动实践中，充分发挥党“聚人心”的显著优势，团结家庭、学校和社会等多方力量，着力构建全员全过程全方位育人大格局，形成建设教育强国的强大力量。

Second, adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. “Without revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary movement.”[8]8 V. I. Lenin, *What Is to Be Done?* (1902). The Chinese edition cited is *Selected Works of Lenin*, Vol. 1, People’s Publishing House, 1995.153 Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has adhered to the Two Integrations and established Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. As the latest theoretical achievement in adapting Marxism to the Chinese context, Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is a powerful ideological weapon and action guide for building a strong educational country. It is necessary to always uphold the guiding role of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era in building a strong educational country. On the one hand, highlight “theoretical guidance” and use Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to forge souls and educate people. Guide schools at all levels to closely focus on the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education, carry out ideological and political education under the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, strengthen ideals and convictions, cultivate moral character, shape correct values, and strive to cultivate more new-era individuals who reassure the Party, are patriotic and dedicated, and bear the heavy responsibility of national rejuvenation. On the other hand, highlight “practical guidance” and use Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to guide practice. Deeply grasp the world outlook and methodology of the “Six Musts,”[9]9 The “Six Musts” (六个必须坚持) refers to the six key principles of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era: must uphold people-centeredness, must uphold self-confidence and self-reliance, must uphold integrity and innovation, must uphold problem-orientedness, must uphold a systems approach, and must uphold a global vision. uphold and apply the positions, viewpoints, and methods that run through it, grasp the laws of ideological and political work, the laws of teaching and educating, and the laws of student growth, and effectively resolve problems and contradictions in building a strong educational country with new concepts, new ideas, and new methods.

第二，坚持以习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想为指导。“没有革命的理论，就不会有革命的运动。”[8]153党的十八大以来，以习近平同志为核心的党中央坚持“两个结合”，创立了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的最新理论成果，习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想是教育强国建设的强大思想武器和行动指南，必须始终坚持习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想在教育强国建设中的指导地位。一方面，突出“理论指导”，用习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想铸魂育人。引导各级各类学校紧扣立德树人根本任务，以习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想为指导开展思想政治教育，坚定理想信念、培养道德品质、塑造正确价值观，努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。另一方面，突出“实践指导”，用习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想指导实践。深刻把握“六个必须坚持”的世界观和方法论，坚持好、运用好贯穿其中的立场观点方法，把握思想政治工作规律、教书育人规律、学生成长规律，以新理念新思路新办法有效化解教育强国建设中的问题和矛盾。

Third, strengthen and improve the Party’s ideological and political work in the New Era. Ideological and political work is the lifeline of all work. “Strengthening and improving ideological and political work concerns the Party’s future and destiny, concerns the country’s long-term stability, and concerns the nation’s cohesion and centripetal force.”[2]2 Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, “Opinions on Strengthening and Improving Ideological and Political Work in the New Era,” July 2021. If ideological and political work is weak, it will be difficult to unify thinking, difficult to reach consensus on the socialist orientation, and the goal of building a strong educational country will inevitably be difficult to achieve. It is necessary to strengthen and improve ideological and political education, raise the political stance, enhance the awareness of the overall situation, think and plan from the height of upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics, building a modern socialist country, and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, guide the educated to deeply understand why the Communist Party of China is capable and why socialism with Chinese characteristics is good, and build consensus for building a strong educational country. It is necessary to improve the quality and level of grassroots ideological and political work, strengthen ideological and political work in enterprises, rural areas, government organs, schools, communities, and the internet, do a good job in ideological and political work for key groups, and consolidate the mass foundation for building a strong educational country. It is necessary to build a “grand ideological and political” pattern, continuously improve the “three-all-round education” system of all-staff, whole-process, and all-round education, promote the construction of ten major “education” systems including curriculum, scientific research, practice, culture, internet, psychology, management, service, financial aid, and organization, and improve the comprehensive training system for moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic, and labor education.

第三，加强和改善新时代党的思想政治工作。思想政治工作是一切工作的生命线，“加强和改进思想政治工作，事关党的前途命运，事关国家长治久安，事关民族凝聚力和向心力”[2]。思想政治工作薄弱，思想就难以统一，社会主义方向的共识就难以达成，教育强国建设的目标必然难以实现。要加强和改进思想政治教育，提高政治站位，增强大局意识，从坚持和发展中国特色社会主义、建设社会主义现代化国家、实现中华民族伟大复兴的高度进行思考和谋划，引导受教育者深刻理解中国共产党为什么能、中国特色社会主义为什么好，为教育强国建设凝聚共识。要提升基层思想政治工作质量和水平，加强企业、农村、机关、学校、社区、网络思想政治工作，做好重点群体思想政治工作，铸牢教育强国建设的群众基础。要构建“大思政”格局，不断完善全员育人、全过程育人、全方位育人的“三全育人”体系，推动课程、科研、实践、文化、网络、心理、管理、服务、资助、组织等十大“育人”体系建设，健全德智体美劳全面培养体系。

(II) Strengthen value guidance, and firmly establish the value stance of a strong educational country

（二）强化价值引领，站稳教育强国的价值立场

“To become a socialist builder and successor, one must establish a correct world outlook, outlook on life, and values, and closely link the realization of personal value with the future and destiny of the Party and the country.”[9]9 The “Six Musts” (六个必须坚持) refers to the six key principles of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era: must uphold people-centeredness, must uphold self-confidence and self-reliance, must uphold integrity and innovation, must uphold problem-orientedness, must uphold a systems approach, and must uphold a global vision.6 A strong educational country requires that the talents cultivated possess correct world outlooks, outlooks on life, and values. This means strengthening value guidance, transforming the core socialist values into students’ value pursuits, adhering to the value orientation of education while guiding diverse social trends, insisting on people-centered development of education, and firmly establishing the value stance of a strong educational country.

“要成为社会主义建设者和接班人，必须树立正确的世界观、人生观、价值观，把实现个人价值同党和国家前途命运紧紧联系在一起。”[9]6教育强国要求培养出来的人才要具备正确的世界观、人生观、价值观，就是要强化价值引领，将社会主义核心价值观转化为学生的价值追求，在引领多样化的社会思潮中坚守教育的价值导向，坚持以人民为中心发展教育，站稳教育强国的价值立场。

First, transform the core socialist values into students’ value pursuits, providing spiritual strength for a strong educational country. “Core values are, in fact, a kind of virtue, both personal virtue and a great virtue, that is, the virtue of the country and the virtue of society.”[10]10 The “five educations” (五育) refer to moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic, and labor education, a comprehensive framework for student development promoted in China’s education system. The core socialist values put forward value requirements at the national, social, and individual levels, “which not only embody the essential requirements of socialism and inherit the excellent traditional Chinese culture, but also absorb the beneficial achievements of world civilizations and reflect the spirit of the times.”[10]10 The “five educations” (五育) refer to moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic, and labor education, a comprehensive framework for student development promoted in China’s education system. Facing the new situation where social ideological concepts and value orientations are increasingly diverse, it is necessary to strengthen students’ identification with and transformation of the core socialist values, gather common value pursuits, form ideological understanding and value consensus, and provide strong spiritual strength for building a strong educational country. On the one hand, it is necessary to promote the integration of the core socialist values system into the teaching system, focus on students’ category differences, cognitive laws, and actual characteristics, transform abstract core socialist values theories into grounded, popularized principles and reasoning, and use case-based, situational, and experiential teaching methods to stimulate students’ learning interest. On the other hand, it is necessary to build an all-round education pattern for the core socialist values, with Party and Youth League cadres, counselors, and ideological and political theory course (hereinafter referred to as “ideological and political courses”) teachers working together in coordination, general education courses, specialized courses, and ideological and political courses advancing in the same direction, social practice, campus culture, and first-class classrooms echoing each other, making efforts in implementation details, grasping key groups such as young people, selecting and promoting advanced teacher and student models, excavating representative figures’ stories, and creating a good atmosphere for the transformation of the core socialist values through publicity and promotion.

第一，将社会主义核心价值观转化为学生的价值追求，为教育强国提供精神力量。“核心价值观，其实就是一种德，既是个人的德，也是一种大德，就是国家的德、社会的德。”[10]社会主义核心价值观从国家、社会和个人层面提出了价值要求，“既体现了社会主义本质要求，继承了中华优秀传统文化，也吸收了世界文明有益成果，体现了时代精神”[10]。面对社会思想观念和价值取向日趋多元的新形势，需要强化学生对社会主义核心价值观的认同转化，凝聚共同价值追求，形成思想认识和价值共识，为教育强国建设提供强大精神力量。一方面，要推动社会主义核心价值观体系融入教学体系，着眼于学生的类别差异、认知规律和实际特征，化抽象的社会主义核心价值观理论为接地气、大众化的道理和事理，运用案例式、情景式、体验式教学法激发学生学习兴趣。另一方面，要构建社会主义核心价值观全方位育人格局，党团干部、辅导员与思想政治理论课（以下简称“思政课”）教师通力协作，通识课、专业课与思政课同向同行，社会实践、校园文化与第一课堂交相呼应，在落细落小落实上下功夫，抓好青少年等重点人群，选树师生先进典型，挖掘代表性人物故事，通过宣传推广营造社会主义核心价值观转化的良好氛围。

Second, guide diversified social trends of thought and uphold the value orientation of an education powerhouse. Alongside the deep evolution of changes unseen in a century in the world, the deep development of economic globalization and opening up, diverse value orientations have caused a considerable impact on mainstream values, and erroneous trends of thought such as money worship, hedonism, extreme individualism, and historical nihilism have continuously emerged, affecting to a certain extent the whole society’s identification with mainstream values. “We must firmly grasp the leadership, management, and discursive power over ideological work in our hands, and must never let them slip away at any time.” [11]11 Xi Jinping, *Excerpts from Xi Jinping’s Discussions on Ideological and Political Work*, Central Party Literature Press, 2020, p. 378.34 On the one hand, it is necessary to realize the guidance of diversified social trends of thought, advance the study, interpretation, and propagation of Marxist theory, leverage the advantages of higher education institutions in research and interpretation, produce high-level theoretical achievements that embody Chinese characteristics, Chinese style, and Chinese manner, propagate Marxism through emerging media forms such as social media platforms, short-video applications, and live streaming, and guide the direction of mainstream values. On the other hand, it is necessary to strengthen the study and judgment of social trends of thought, resist the influence of erroneous social trends of thought, take a clear stand and dare to draw the sword, resolutely struggle against erroneous words and deeds that deny the leadership of the Communist Party of China and slander the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, actively respond to issues of widespread social concern involved in social trends of thought, and uphold the value orientation of a socialist education powerhouse with Chinese characteristics.

第二，引领多样化的社会思潮，坚守教育强国的价值导向。伴随世界百年大变局的深度演进，经济全球化和对外开放深度发展，多元价值取向对主流价值观造成较大冲击，拜金主义、享乐主义、极端个人主义和历史虚无主义等错误思潮不断涌现，一定程度上影响了全社会对主流价值观的认同。“必须把意识形态工作的领导权、管理权、话语权牢牢掌握在手中，任何时候都不能旁落。”[11]34一方面，要实现对多样化社会思潮的引领，推进马克思主义理论研究、阐释和宣传，发挥高校在研究阐释方面的优势，推出体现中国特色、中国风格、中国气派的高水平理论成果，以社交媒体平台、短视频应用、直播等新兴媒介形式宣传马克思主义，引导主流价值方向。另一方面，要加强对社会思潮的研判，抵制错误社会思潮的影响，旗帜鲜明、敢于亮剑，坚决同否定中国共产党领导、诋毁中国特色社会主义制度的错误言行作斗争，积极回应社会思潮涉及的、社会普遍关注的问题，坚守中国特色社会主义教育强国的价值导向。

Third, adhere to a people-centered approach to developing education and consolidate the mass foundation of an education powerhouse. The people’s standpoint is the fundamental standpoint of Marxist educational theory. “The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.” [12]12 Xi Jinping, “Cultivate Virtue and Nurture Talent with the Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, Accelerate the Construction of an Educational Powerhouse,” *People’s Daily*, May 30, 2024.7 Xi Jinping points out: “Adhere to a people-centered approach, continuously enhance the inclusiveness, accessibility, and convenience of public education services, and let the fruits of education reform and development benefit all the people more and more fairly.” [1]1 Xi Jinping, “Speech at the National Education Conference,” September 9-10, 2024. [n] The “six capabilities” (六力) refer to the six strengths listed: ideological and political leadership, talent competitiveness, scientific and technological support, livelihood security, social synergy, and international influence. This fully demonstrates the people’s attribute of education and the fundamental value pursuit of taking the people as the standpoint. To adhere to a people-centered approach to developing education, it is necessary to run education that satisfies the people, target and solve the people’s actual needs and practical difficulties, improve the overall quality and level of education, vigorously promote educational equity and openness, carry out exhibitions of high-quality educational achievements, and raise the level of public education services. It is necessary to let the fruits of education reform and development benefit all the people more and more fairly, take promoting the comprehensive development of people as the goal, enrich the supply of educational resources, optimize the allocation of regional resources, promote high-quality and balanced development of education, strengthen the top-level design and institutional improvement of lifelong education and education for all, and allow the people to fairly enjoy all kinds of educational resources. It is also necessary to advance the digital development of education, improve the operational mechanisms of digital education, enhance the auxiliary functions of educational big data, expand multi-dimensional application scenarios of artificial intelligence, build, strengthen, and make good use of intelligent application platforms, expand multi-terminal co-construction and sharing channels, and meet the diverse educational needs of the people.

第三，坚持以人民为中心发展教育，夯实教育强国的群众基础。人民立场是马克思主义教育理论的根本立场，“每个人的自由发展是一切人的自由发展的条件”[12]7。习近平指出：“坚持以人民为中心，不断提升教育公共服务的普惠性、可及性、便捷性，让教育改革发展成果更多更公平惠及全体人民。”[1]充分彰显出教育的人民属性和以人民为立场的根本价值追求。坚持以人民为中心发展教育，要办好人民满意的教育，针对性解决好人民的现实所需和实际所困，提升整体教育质量和水平，大力促进教育公平和开放，开展高质量教育成果展示活动，提升公共教育服务水平。要让教育改革发展成果更多更公平惠及全体人民，以促进人的全面发展为目标，丰富教育资源供给，优化区域资源配置，推动教育优质均衡发展，加强终身教育、全民教育的顶层设计和制度完善，让人民公平享有各类教育资源。还要推进教育数字化发展，完善教育数字化运行机制，增强教育大数据辅助功能，拓展人工智能多维应用场景，建强用好智能化应用平台，拓展多端共建共享渠道，满足人民多样化教育需求。

(III) Strengthen institutional guidance, promote the implementation and effectiveness of the guiding power of ideological and political education

（三）强化制度引领，推动思政引领力落地见效

Institutions concern the fundamental, stable, and long-term issues of building an education powerhouse. A complete institutional system is an important guarantee for promoting the long-term and sustained implementation and effectiveness of the guiding power of ideological and political education. It is necessary to adhere to the fundamental system of Marxism’s guiding position in the ideological sphere, promote the improvement of the mechanism for fostering virtue and nurturing people, promote the integration of ideological and political work throughout the talent cultivation system, and assist in the effective implementation of the major tasks of building an education powerhouse.

制度关系着教育强国建设的根本性、稳定性、长期性问题，完善的制度体系是促进思政引领力长效化、持久化落地见效的重要保障。要坚持马克思主义在意识形态领域指导地位的根本制度、推动完善立德树人机制、推动思想政治工作贯通人才培养体系，助推教育强国建设重大任务有效落实。

First, adhere to the fundamental system of Marxism’s guiding position in the ideological sphere and highlight the distinctive background of China’s education. Marxism is the fundamental guiding ideology of the Communist Party of China and also the distinctive background of China’s education. Only by adhering to the guidance of Marxism can the educational cause cultivate generation after generation of socialist builders and successors with firm convictions, ensuring the distinctive characteristics of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the education powerhouse. First, use Marxism to guide the direction of education, integrate the fundamental guiding position of Marxism throughout China’s educational cause, ensure that all educational work unfolds around this fundamental system, persist in using Marxism adapted to the Chinese context and the needs of the times to arm the whole Party and educate the people, always hold high the banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, firmly establish the Four Confidences, and ensure that the construction of an education powerhouse always advances victoriously along the correct direction. Second, use Marxism to guide the transformation of theoretical knowledge, deeply implement the Project of Marxist Theory Research and Development, strengthen systematic research and interpretation of Marxism, enhance the interest and appeal of theoretical propaganda, promote the Party’s innovative theories to enter the mind and heart, go deep and solid, and see results and effectiveness through diverse forms. Third, use Marxism to guide the construction of the talent cultivation system, continuously improve the textbook system guided by Marxism, promote its transformation into a teaching system, cognitive system, and belief system, leverage the supporting role of Marxism in disciplinary construction, accelerate the construction of an independent knowledge system of Chinese philosophy and social sciences, and assist in solving major issues in the process of building a strong country and rejuvenating the nation.

第一，坚持马克思主义在意识形态领域指导地位的根本制度，彰显我国教育的鲜明底色。马克思主义是中国共产党的根本指导思想，也是我国教育的鲜明底色，教育事业只有坚持以马克思主义为指导，才能培养一代又一代具有坚定信仰的社会主义建设者和接班人，确保教育强国的中国特色社会主义鲜明特质。一是用马克思主义指导教育方向，以马克思主义的根本指导地位贯通我国教育事业，确保各项教育工作都围绕这一根本制度展开，坚持用中国化时代化的马克思主义武装全党、教育人民，始终高举中国特色社会主义旗帜，牢固树立“四个自信”，确保教育强国建设始终沿着正确的方向胜利前进。二是用马克思主义指导理论知识转化，深入实施马克思主义理论研究和建设工程，加强马克思主义系统化研究阐释，增强理论宣传的趣味性和感染力，以多样化形式推动党的创新理论入脑入心、走深走实、见行见效。三是用马克思主义指导人才培养体系的构建，不断完善以马克思主义为指导的教材体系，推动转化为教学体系、认知体系和信仰体系，发挥马克思主义在学科建设中的支撑作用，加快构建中国哲学社会科学自主知识体系，助力解决强国建设、民族复兴进程中的重大问题。

Second, promote the improvement of the mechanism for fostering virtue and nurturing people, and implement the task of talent cultivation in detail. The Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Further Deepening Reform Comprehensively to Advance Chinese-Path Modernization, adopted at the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, takes improving the mechanism for fostering virtue and nurturing people as an important part of deepening comprehensive educational reform. From constructing a system for fostering virtue and nurturing people to improving the mechanism for fostering virtue and nurturing people, it reflects our Party’s profound understanding of the fundamental task of fostering virtue and nurturing people. It is necessary to establish long-term effective measures and institutional guarantees to ensure the implementation of the mechanism for fostering virtue and nurturing people. First, it is necessary to promote the improvement of the integration mechanism for the “five educations” [10]10 The “five educations” (五育) refer to moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic, and labor education, a comprehensive framework for student development promoted in China’s education system., adhere to the fundamental position of moral education, leverage the basic function of intellectual education, strengthen the guarantee role of physical education, enhance the infiltrating effect of aesthetic education, pay attention to the value shaping of labor education, scientifically grasp the relationships among the “five educations,” explore the points of integration among the “five educations,” use systematic thinking to comprehensively advance the integration of the “five educations,” and form an educational pattern of mutual penetration, mutual promotion, and mutual supplementation. Second, it is necessary to promote the improvement of the coordination mechanism among schools, families, and society. Schools should play a leading role in coordinated education, sort out and grasp the situation of students, establish and improve the home-school linkage system, make good use of social education resources, and strengthen cooperation and exchange with relevant social units. Families should establish a scientific educational concept, actively participate in school interactive activities, cooperate with schools in education and teaching, guide children to experience society, and enhance their socialization ability and level. Improve the social education service system, promote the opening and sharing of social resources, use education bases, practice bases, libraries, museums, cultural centers, etc., to carry out public-interest extracurricular practice activities, and provide rich public education platforms for school and family education.

第二，推动完善立德树人机制，将人才培养任务落实落细。党的二十届三中全会通过的《中共中央关于进一步全面深化改革、推进中国式现代化的决定》将完善立德树人机制作为深化教育综合改革的重要内容，从构建立德树人体系到完善立德树人机制，体现了我们党对立德树人根本任务的深刻认识。必须建立长期有效的措施和制度保障立德树人机制得以落地实施。一是要推动完善“五育”并举的融通机制，坚持德育的根本地位，发挥智育的基础功能，增强体育的保障作用，提升美育的浸润效果，注重劳育的价值塑造，科学把握“五育”之间的关系，挖掘“五育”之间的结合点，运用系统思维全面推进“五育”融通，形成相互渗透、相互促进、相互补充的育人格局。二是要推动完善学校家庭社会的协同机制，学校要发挥协同育人的主导作用，梳理掌握学生状况，建立健全家校联动制度，用好社会育人资源，加强与社会有关单位的合作交流。家庭要树立科学的教育观念，积极参与学校互动活动，配合学校做好教育教学，引导子女体验社会，提升社会化能力和水平。完善社会教育服务体系，推进社会资源开放共享，利用教育基地、实践基地、图书馆、博物馆、文化馆等开展公益课外实践活动，为学校和家庭教育提供丰富的公共育人平台。

Third, promote the integration of ideological and political work throughout the talent cultivation system, and realize all-round and whole-process education. “The talent cultivation system involves the disciplinary system, teaching system, textbook system, management system, etc., and what runs through them is the ideological and political work system.” [13]13 Xi Jinping, *Excerpts from Xi Jinping’s Discussions on Ideological and Political Work*, Central Party Literature Press, 2020, p. 17.10 The proposition of integrating ideological and political work throughout the talent cultivation system provides a methodological guide and practical direction for enhancing the guiding power of ideological and political education. In view of this, it is necessary to promote the integration of ideological and political work throughout the disciplinary system, fully explore the ideological and political elements of each discipline, grasp the horizontal and vertical connections between basic fields or branches, take the construction of new engineering, new medicine, new agriculture, and new liberal arts as an opportunity, and highlight the political background of disciplinary construction. It is necessary to promote the integration of ideological and political work throughout the teaching system, integrate ideological and political goals into teaching objectives, integrate moral, cultural knowledge, and social practice education into teaching content, combine teaching methods such as case-based teaching, inquiry-based teaching, and experiential teaching, and incorporate the effect of ideological and political education into teaching evaluation indicators. It is necessary to promote the integration of ideological and political work throughout the textbook system, construct a curriculum and textbook system with Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as the core content, and summarize the integration of the Party’s innovative theoretical research results and the great practices of the New Era. It is necessary to promote the integration of ideological and political work throughout the management system, pay attention to the combination of management and education, highlight the people-centered nature, unity, and coordination of management, and fully reflect the institutional attributes of the Party.

第三，推动思想政治工作贯通人才培养体系，实现全程全方位育人。“人才培养体系涉及学科体系、教学体系、教材体系、管理体系等，而贯通其中的是思想政治工作体系。”[13]10思想政治工作贯通人才培养体系这一命题的提出，为提升思政引领力提供了方法遵循和实践指南。鉴此，要推动思想政治工作贯通学科体系，充分挖掘各学科思想政治要素，把握基本领域或分支之间的横向和纵向联系，以新工科、新医科、新农科、新文科建设为契机，突出学科建设的政治底色。要推动思想政治工作贯通教学体系，把思政目标融入教学目标，将思想道德、文化知识、社会实践教育融入教学内容，结合案例式教学、探究式教学、体验式教学等教学方法，把思政育人效果纳入教学评价指标。要推动思想政治工作贯通教材体系，构建以习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想为核心内容的课程教材体系，总结融入党的创新理论研究成果和新时代伟大实践。要推动思想政治工作贯通管理体系，注重管理与育人相结合，突出管理的人民性、统一性、协调性，充分体现出党的制度属性。

(IV) Strengthen curriculum guidance, firmly grasp the important lever of an education powerhouse

（四）强化课程引领，把牢教育强国的重要抓手

The curriculum is the basic vehicle for educating students in schools, playing an important role in cultivating students’ social morality, professional ethics, family virtues, and personal character, and in helping them establish the lofty ideal of communism and the common ideal of socialism with Chinese characteristics. On the new journey of the New Era, we must adhere to the concept of “whole-curriculum education,” hold fast to the main channel of curriculum-based education, fully demonstrate the new atmosphere and new achievements in the construction of ideological and political courses, uphold fundamental principles and break new ground to promote the connotative development of ideological and political course construction, promote the alignment of curriculum-based ideological and political education with ideological and political courses, and comprehensively advance the integration of the small classroom of ideological and political education with the big classroom of society.

课程是学校育人的基本载体，其在培育学生社会公德、职业道德、家庭美德、个人品德，帮助树立共产主义远大理想和中国特色社会主义共同理想等方面发挥着重要作用。新时代新征程，要坚持“全课程育人”理念，坚守课程育人的主渠道，充分展现思政课建设的新气象新作为，守正创新推动思政课建设内涵式发展、推动课程思政与思政课同向同行、全面推进思政小课堂与社会大课堂的融通。

First, promote the connotative development of ideological and political course construction. As a systematic project, the construction of ideological and political courses must promote their connotative development through the coordinated integration of their internal core elements. Specifically, first, promote the connotative development of ideological and political course construction with “content as king.” It is necessary to continuously innovate the curriculum system, insist on advancing the construction of ideological and political courses in step with the theoretical innovation of the Party, closely integrate the domestic and international situation with the development and changes in the country’s work tasks, effectively incorporate vivid cases from real life, and practically enhance the ideological content, timeliness, relevance, and readability of the textbook materials. Second, promote the connotative development of ideological and political course construction through “means innovation.” In the current environment of rapid development of self-media, converged media, and new media, promoting the construction of ideological and political courses should utilize information technology, multimedia technology, and other means, relying on diverse carriers such as VR, flipped classrooms, online courses, MOOCs, micro-courses, micro-films, short videos, blended teaching, and virtual simulation, supplemented by methods such as case-based, inquiry-based, heuristic, and interactive approaches, in order to continuously enhance students’ sense of gain and experience. Third, strengthen “team building” to promote the connotative development of ideological and political course construction. The key to running ideological and political courses well lies in the teachers. It is necessary to increase the training of professional personnel, improve the capacity-building training system, promote reform and innovation in the evaluation system, and deepen measures such as reward and incentive mechanisms, so as to practically enhance the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of ideological and political course teachers.

第一，推动思政课建设内涵式发展。思政课建设作为一个系统工程，必须要在促进思政课各内在核心要素的协调融通中推动思政课建设内涵式发展。具体而言，一是以“内容为王”推动思政课建设内涵式发展。必须不断创新课程体系，坚持思政课建设与党的创新理论武装同步推进，紧密结合国内外形势和国家的工作任务发展变化，有效融入现实生活中的鲜活案例，切实增强教材内容的思想性、时代性、针对性和可读性。二是通过“手段创新”推动思政课建设内涵式发展。在当前自媒体、融媒体与新媒体突飞猛进的发展环境下，推动思政课建设要以信息技术、多媒体技术等手段，依托VR、翻转课堂、在线课程、慕课微课、微电影、短视频、混合教学、虚拟仿真等多样化载体，辅之以案例式、探究式、启发式、互动式等方法，以此不断增强学生的获得感和体验感。三是加强“队伍建设”推动思政课建设内涵式发展。办好思政课关键在教师，必须要通过加大对专业人才的培养力度，健全能力培养培训体系，推动评价体系改革创新，深化奖励激励机制等手段和措施，切实增强思政课教师的积极性、主动性、创造性。

Second, promote the organic combination and collaborative education of curriculum-based ideological and political education with ideological and political courses. Xi Jinping emphasized that “all types of courses should align with ideological and political theory courses and form a synergistic effect.” [14]14 “Three Meetings and One Lesson” refers to the system of holding regular branch committee meetings, branch general meetings, group meetings, and Party lessons within the CPC.378 [11]11 Xi Jinping, *Excerpts from Xi Jinping’s Discussions on Ideological and Political Work*, Central Party Literature Press, 2020, p. 378. Strengthening curriculum leadership requires deepening the synergistic effect among various courses and practically enhancing the joint force of curriculum-based education. On the one hand, we must adhere to the unity of in-depth excavation and organic integration. So-called “excavation” means systematically uncovering the ideological and political elements contained in various disciplines, majors, and courses, such as exemplary figures, humanistic spirit, factual cases, and other educational resources, using them as elemental support for carrying out curriculum-based ideological and political education. So-called “integration” means identifying the “points of connection” between ideological and political courses and different courses, integrating ideological and political elements into the process of classroom teaching, fully leveraging the leading role of ideological and political courses in the curriculum system, and guiding students to establish a correct worldview, outlook on life, and value system. On the other hand, we must adhere to the integration of explicit education and implicit education. Curriculum-based ideological and political education and ideological and political courses have different characteristics in terms of required methods and modes of functioning. This requires further highlighting the role of ideological and political courses as the “main channel” of ideological and political education, guiding students to correctly understand the general trend of world development, and effectively responding to struggles in the ideological sphere. At the same time, efforts must be made to leverage the micro-carrier role of curriculum-based ideological and political education, concealing educational objectives within natural educational environments and diverse teaching activities, truly enabling students to receive ideological and political education “like a gentle breeze and fine rain moistening things silently.”

第二，推动课程思政与思政课有机结合协同育人。习近平强调，要“使各类课程与思想政治理论课同向同行，形成协同效应”[14]378。强化课程引领，必须要深化各门课程之间的协同效应，切实增强课程育人合力。一方面，要坚持深入挖掘和有机融入相统一。所谓“挖掘”就是要系统挖掘各学科、各专业、各课程蕴含的思政元素，如典范人物、人文精神、事实案例等教育资源，将其作为开展课程思政的要素支撑。所谓“融入”就是要找准思政课和不同课程的“结合点”，把思政元素融入课堂教学的过程中，充分发挥思政课在课程体系中的引领作用，引导学生树立正确的世界观、人生观和价值观。另一方面，要坚持显性教育与隐性教育相融通。课程思政与思政课两者在要求方式和作用发挥上具有不同的特点。这就要求进一步凸显思政课作为思想政治教育的“主渠道”作用，引导学生正确认识世界发展大势，有效应对意识形态领域斗争。与此同时，还要着力发挥课程思政的微载体作用，将教育目的隐藏于自然的教育环境、多样的教学活动中，真正做到在“润物细无声”中让学生接受思想政治教育。

Third, comprehensively advance the construction of “big ideological and political courses,” achieving complementary integration between the small classroom of ideological and political education and the big classroom of society. “Expand the new pattern of comprehensive education with ‘big ideological and political courses,’ combine the small classroom of ideological and political education with the big classroom of society, and promote students’ better understanding of national conditions and public sentiment, and strengthen their ideals and convictions.” [15]15 “Party branch bastions” (党支部战斗堡垒) is a standard metaphor in CPC discourse, referring to the role of grassroots Party organizations as strongholds for implementing Party policies and mobilizing the masses. [12]12 Xi Jinping, “Cultivate Virtue and Nurture Talent with the Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, Accelerate the Construction of an Educational Powerhouse,” *People’s Daily*, May 30, 2024. This important statement emphasizes the role of “big ideological and political course” construction in talent cultivation. In view of this, we must use “big classrooms,” “big platforms,” and “big teaching staff” to comprehensively enhance the leading power of ideological and political education, cultivating more socialist builders and successors who are well-developed morally, intellectually, physically, aesthetically, and labor-wise for the construction of an educational powerhouse. Specifically, first, make good use of “big classrooms,” establish a work system with unified leadership by the Party committee, active coordination by the School of Marxism, and active cooperation by other departments, and carry out diversified practical activities for ideological and political courses, such as volunteer services, theoretical propaganda, and social research, using “walking ideological and political courses” to deepen understanding and insight. Second, build “big platforms,” strengthen and make good use of the National Smart Education Public Service Platform, concentrate social resources to promote platform upgrades, improve the quality of resources such as teaching guidance and daily tutoring, develop digital teaching resources, and expand digital service functions. Third, build a “big teaching staff,” strengthen the combination of full-time and part-time teachers, fully equip and strengthen the team of ideological and political course teachers and counselors, hire Party and government leaders, scientists, and veteran comrades as part-time ideological and political course teachers, improve the ideological and political course teacher database, and establish a mechanism for the training and management of ideological and political course teachers.

第三，全面推进“大思政课”建设，实现思政小课堂与社会大课堂的互补融通。“以‘大思政课’拓展全面育人新格局，把思政小课堂和社会大课堂结合起来，推动学生更好了解国情民情，坚定理想信念。”[15]这一重要论述强调了“大思政课”建设在人才培养中发挥的作用。鉴此，要以“大课堂”“大平台”“大师资”全面提升思政引领力，为教育强国建设培养更多德智体美劳全面发展的社会主义建设者和接班人。具体而言，一是要善用“大课堂”，建立党委统一领导、马克思主义学院积极协调、其他部门积极配合的工作体系，开展多样化思政课实践活动，如志愿服务、理论宣讲、社会调研等，以“行走的思政课”深化体会感悟。二是要搭建“大平台”，建强用好国家智慧教育公共服务平台，集中社会资源推进平台升级，提升教学指导、日常辅导等资源质量，开发数字教学资源，拓展数字化服务功能。三是要建好“大师资”，要建强专兼结合的大师资，配齐配强思政课教师、辅导员队伍，聘请党政领导、科学家、老同志等担任兼职思政课教师，完善思政课教师库，建立思政课教师培养管理机制。

(5) Strengthen team leadership, consolidate the construction strength of an educational powerhouse

（五）强化队伍引领，凝聚教育强国的建设力量

Xi Jinping pointed out: “We must carefully cultivate and organize a political work team capable of doing ideological and political work, and carry out ideological and political work daily and down to the individual.” [3]3 Xi Jinping, “Speech at the National Education Conference,” September 10, 2018. [13]13 Xi Jinping, *Excerpts from Xi Jinping’s Discussions on Ideological and Political Work*, Central Party Literature Press, 2020, p. 17. The ideological and political work team is the specialized force for doing ideological and political work; it determines the scientific nature and effectiveness of carrying out ideological and political work, and determines the level and quality of talent cultivation. It is necessary to strengthen the leadership of the ideological and political work team by enhancing leadership awareness, improving leadership capacity, and exerting leadership roles, so as to promote the construction of an educational powerhouse with strong organizational synergy.

习近平指出：“要精心培养和组织一支会做思想政治工作的政工队伍，把思想政治工作做在日常，做到个人。”[3]思想政治工作队伍是做好思想政治工作的专门力量，其决定着思想政治工作开展的科学性和有效性，决定着人才培养的水平和质量，必须通过增强引领意识、提高引领能力、发挥引领作用强化思想政治工作队伍引领，以强大的组织合力推进教育强国建设。

First, enhance the leadership awareness of the ideological and political work team, and forge the ideological foundation for the construction of an educational powerhouse. The leadership awareness of the ideological and political work team is the team’s perception and cognition of the leadership of socialist ideology. It plays an important role in driving leadership behavior, gathering leadership strength, and achieving leadership goals. It must be enhanced from aspects such as ideological concepts and cultural values. First, enhance the leadership awareness of the ideological and political work team based on “ideological leadership.” Strengthen research on ideological dynamics, use technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things to investigate students’ psychological tendencies and ideological forms, build a mechanism for studying, judging, and responding to ideological dynamics in schools, society, and the internet, and improve the team’s vigilance and discernment. Strengthen theoretical armament, use forms such as theoretical study center groups, the “Three Meetings and One Lesson” system, [14]14 “Three Meetings and One Lesson” refers to the system of holding regular branch committee meetings, branch general meetings, group meetings, and Party lessons within the CPC. and reading classes to guide a profound understanding of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, cultivate the spirit of educators, and strengthen the sense of mission of educating people for the Party and cultivating talent for the country. Second, enhance the leadership awareness of the ideological and political work team based on “cultural leadership.” Deeply carry out cultural practice activities, closely integrate with actual work, promote activities to go deeper and more practical, and cultivate cultural sentiment and enhance cultural literacy through field investigations, interactive exchanges, and in-depth experiences. Pay attention to the cultural construction of the team, integrate traditional culture, national culture, and Chinese culture into the process of team building and management, use the spiritual power of culture to improve team cohesion, and fundamentally enhance the team’s leadership momentum.

第一，增强思想政治工作队伍引领意识，铸牢教育强国建设的思想基础。思想政治工作队伍引领意识是思想政治工作队伍对社会主义意识形态引领的觉察与认知，在驱动引领行为、凝聚引领力量、实现引领目标等方面具有重要作用，必须从思想观念和文化价值等方面着力增强。一是以“思想引领”为基础增强思想政治工作队伍的引领意识。强化思想动态调研，利用人工智能、大数据、云计算、物联网等技术摸排学生的心理倾向和思想意识形态，构建学校、社会、网络思想动态研判与响应机制，提高队伍警觉性和鉴别力。强化理论武装，通过理论学习中心组、“三会一课”、读书班等形式引导深刻领会习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想，涵养教育家精神，强化为党育人、为国育才的使命感。二是以“文化引领”为根本增强思想政治工作队伍的引领意识。深入开展文化实践活动，紧密结合工作实际，推进活动走深走实，通过实地考察、互动交流、深度体验等方式涵养文化情怀、提升文化素养。注重队伍文化建设，将传统文化、民族文化、中国文化融入队伍建设管理过程，以文化的精神力量提高团队凝聚力，从根本上增强队伍的引领动力。

Second, enhance the leading capacity of the ideological and political work team to provide a realistic driving force for building a strong education country. The leading capacity of the ideological and political work team is the necessary condition for transforming leading consciousness into reality, and is the prerequisite foundation for truly exerting a leading role and forming a strong leading power. It is necessary to effectively enhance the leading capacity of the ideological and political work team in terms of organizational leadership, value shaping, communication and coordination, and other aspects. First, enhance organizational leadership capacity to ensure orderly progress. It is necessary to take a clear-cut stand on politics, strengthen the team’s ideals and convictions, always adhere to a people-centered approach, resolve the pressing difficulties and concerns of the people, enhance the team’s ability to rally the masses, build strong Party branch bastions [15]15 “Party branch bastions” (党支部战斗堡垒) is a standard metaphor in CPC discourse, referring to the role of grassroots Party organizations as strongholds for implementing Party policies and mobilizing the masses., and transform the Party’s organizational and institutional advantages into powerful leading effectiveness. Second, enhance value-shaping capacity to consolidate talent cultivation. The ideological and political work team must take the lead in being steadfast believers, active disseminators, and exemplary practitioners of the core socialist values, integrate correct worldviews, outlooks on life, and values into the practice of ideological and political work, correctly handle the relationship between the “greater self” and the “lesser self” [16]16 “Greater self” and “lesser self” (大我与小我) is a common Chinese political and moral dichotomy, where the “greater self” represents collective, national, or Party interests, and the “lesser self” represents individual or private interests., and cultivate new-era talents through value shaping. Third, enhance communication and coordination capacity to unleash a synergy of leadership. Improve the systems and mechanisms for team cultivation, cultivate a systematic mindset, establish an awareness of communication and coordination, master methods of communication and coordination, strengthen collaborative linkage on the basis of clarifying the attribution of responsibilities and interest relationships, and enhance the team’s leading effectiveness.

第二，提高思想政治工作队伍引领能力，为教育强国建设提供现实动力。思想政治工作队伍引领能力是促进引领意识转化为现实的应然条件，是真正发挥引领作用、形成强大引领力的前提基础，必须从组织领导、价值塑造、沟通协调等方面有效提升思想政治工作队伍的引领能力。一是提高组织领导能力，确保有序推进。必须旗帜鲜明讲政治，坚定队伍理想信念，始终坚持以人民为中心，解决好人民群众急难愁盼问题，增强队伍的群众感召力，建强党支部战斗堡垒，把党的组织优势、制度优势转化为强大的引领效能。二是提高价值塑造能力，夯实人才培养。思想政治工作队伍要带头做社会主义核心价值观的坚定信仰者、积极传播者、模范践行者，融正确的世界观、人生观、价值观于思想政治工作实际，正确处理好“大我”与“小我”的关系，以价值塑造培养时代新人。三是提高沟通协调能力，迸发引领合力。完善队伍培养体制机制，养成系统观念，树立沟通协调意识，掌握沟通协调方法，在理顺职责归属与利益关系的基础上强化协同联动，提升队伍的引领效能。

Third, exert the leading role of the ideological and political work team to promote greater achievements in building a strong education country. Exerting the leading role of ideological and political work is the “last kilometer” [17]17 “Last kilometer” (最后一公里) is a Chinese political idiom meaning the final, often most difficult, stage of implementing a policy or achieving a goal, originating from logistics terminology. in enhancing the leading consciousness and improving the leading capacity of ideological and political work. By expanding the team’s influence, more forces for building a strong education country can be gathered. First, exert the leading role of models, by discovering and selecting advanced models, cultivating and fostering “experts” [18]18 “Experts” (行家里手) is a Chinese four-character idiom meaning a person with professional knowledge and skill in a particular field. in ideological and political work through special theoretical rotations, demonstration training, project funding, and other means, contributing ideas and suggestions for the reform and innovation of ideological and political work, assisting in improving the quality and capacity of the team, and disseminating advanced educational concepts and methods through seminars, exchanges, and training. Second, exert the leading role of propaganda, by focusing on school propaganda, integrating ideological and political work into school thematic propaganda, situational propaganda, and policy propaganda, and using mainstream propaganda forces to enhance the dissemination power of ideological and political work; focusing on social propaganda, using propaganda media to disseminate the Party’s innovative theories and policy measures, and boosting the people’s confidence with the achievements of social development; focusing on online propaganda, guiding correct value orientations, promptly responding to the people’s concerns, and establishing monitoring and feedback mechanisms. Third, exert the leading role of evaluation, by conducting comprehensive, multi-dimensional measurement of the effectiveness of ideological and political work through a combination of qualitative and quantitative evaluation, promoting the connection between the evaluation of ideological and political leading effects and reward and promotion mechanisms, stimulating the vitality of the ideological and political work team, and providing strong momentum for building a strong education country.

第三，发挥思想政治工作队伍引领作用，推动教育强国建设取得更大成效。发挥思政引领作用是增强思政引领意识、提高思政引领能力的“最后一公里”，通过扩大队伍影响力汇聚更多教育强国建设力量。一是发挥典型引领作用，挖掘选树先进典型，通过专题理论轮训、示范培训、项目资助等途径培养造就思想政治工作的“行家里手”，为思想政治工作改革创新献计献策，助力队伍素质能力提升，通过研讨、交流、培训等传播先进教育理念和方法。二是发挥宣传引领作用，抓好学校宣传，将思想政治工作融入学校主题宣传、形势宣传和政策宣传，借助主流宣传力量增强思政传播力；抓好社会宣传，借助宣传媒介传播党的创新理论和政策举措，以社会发展成就提振人民群众信心；抓好网络宣传，引领正确价值导向，及时回应人民关切，建立监测反馈机制。三是发挥评价引领作用，以定性评价和定量评价相结合的方式对思想政治工作成效进行全方位、多维度的水平测度，促进思政引领效果评价与奖励晋升机制相衔接，激发思想政治工作队伍活力，为教育强国建设提供强大动能。

Online editor: Tongxin

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