Letting Red Resources Become the Spiritual Engine of “Grand Ideological-Political Courses”

The report of the 20th National Congress of the CPC pointed out that we should promote the spiritual lineage of Chinese Communists originating from the great founding spirit of the Party and make good use of red resources. In September 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized at the National Education Conference that we should focus on using successful cases of great changes in the New Era, fully leverage the educational function of red resources, and continuously expand the space and positions for practical education and online education. Integrating red resources into the construction of “grand ideological-political courses” in universities embodies the mission requirements of universities to cultivate talent for the Party and educate people for the country. It is both an objective need to cultivate new generations of the era who conform to the Party’s and the country’s political concepts and development needs, and an inevitable requirement for universities to shoulder political, cultural, and educational missions in the New Era.

党的二十大报告指出，要弘扬以伟大建党精神为源头的中国共产党人精神谱系，用好红色资源。2024年9月，习近平总书记在全国教育大会上强调，要注重运用新时代伟大变革成功案例，充分发挥红色资源育人功能，不断拓展实践育人和网络育人的空间和阵地。将红色资源融入高校“大思政课”建设，体现了高校为党育人、为国育才的使命要求，既是培育符合党和国家政治理念与发展需求的时代新人的客观需要，也是高校在新时代肩负政治使命、文化使命、教育使命的必然要求。

The Logical Rationale for Integrating Red Culture into Ideological-Political Courses

红色文化融入思政课的逻辑理路

The unity of matter and spirit. Red resources encompass both the material carriers such as figures, events, and objects from the Party’s more than one hundred years of struggle practice, and the spiritual carriers such as ideological qualities, ideals and beliefs, and value concepts generated in practice. They provide specific texts for ideological-political education for the construction of “grand ideological-political courses” in universities, extending the teaching system and teaching methods of “grand ideological-political courses.” The construction of “grand ideological-political courses” in universities should, on the basis of utilizing red cultural resources, continuously strengthen the value function and educational effectiveness of red resources through links such as character perception, theoretical learning, environmental experience, scene stimulation, emotional resonance, and practical participation.

物质与精神相统一。红色资源既囊括了党在百余年奋斗实践中的人物、事件、物品等物质载体，也包括在实践中产生的思想品质、理想信念、价值观念等精神载体，为高校“大思政课”建设提供了思政教育的具体文本，延展了“大思政课”的教学体系、教学方式。高校“大思政课”建设要在运用红色文化资源基础上，借助人物感知、理论学习、环境体验、场景触动、情感共鸣、实践参与等环节，不断强化红色资源的价值功能和育人实效。

The combination of theory and practice. Red resources have specific narrative logic and discourse forms, possessing the important function of guiding students to strengthen their belief in Marxism, their confidence in socialism with Chinese characteristics, and their confidence in the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Integrating red resources into the construction of “grand ideological-political courses” in universities must always implement political requirements, pay attention to the characteristics of the times, integrate educational concepts, answer the fundamental question of education—“what kind of people to cultivate, how to cultivate them, and for whom to cultivate them”—through discourse forms that explain deeply, thoroughly, and vividly, narrative carriers that are heartfelt, sincere, and reasonable, and activity methods that are thorough, solid, and detailed, thereby highlighting the overall goals and fundamental direction of the Party in university construction in the New Era.

理论与实践相结合。红色资源有特定的叙事逻辑和话语形式，具有引导学生坚定马克思主义信仰、中国特色社会主义信念、中华民族伟大复兴信心的重要功能。将红色资源融入高校“大思政课”建设，要始终落实政治要求，观照时代特征、融通育人理念，以讲深讲透讲活的话语形式、用心用情用理的叙述载体、做深做实做细的活动方式回答“培养什么人、怎样培养人、为谁培养人”这一教育的根本问题，凸显新时代党在高校建设中的总体目标和根本方向。

The integration of current circumstances and specific events. In the process of constructing “grand ideological-political courses” in universities, red cultural resources are transformed into material carriers and spiritual clues that run through historical memory and reflect reality. By combining the construction of ideological-political courses with the theoretical innovation of the Party, integrating ideological-political courses with curriculum-based ideological-political education, and merging the “small classroom” of ideological-political education with the “big classroom” of society, the boundaries of education between history and modernity, classroom and practice, and campus and society are broken, creating an educational environment for universities that emphasizes both theory and practice.

时势与事态相融通。在高校“大思政课”建设过程中，将红色文化资源转化为贯穿历史记忆、映照现实的物质载体和精神线索，以思政课建设和党的创新理论武装相推进、思政课程和课程思政相结合、思政教育“小课堂”和社会“大课堂”相融合的形式，打破历史与现代、课堂与实践、校内与校外的育人边界，为高校营造理论与实践并重的育人环境。

The integration of internal and external aspects. Red resources draw on the excellent genes of fine traditional Chinese culture, revolutionary culture, and advanced socialist culture, transforming grand historical frameworks into educational materials that are perceptible, knowable, learnable, and actionable. By integrating red cultural resources into the construction of “grand ideological-political courses” in universities, their important role in educating people through culture, nurturing people through culture, and shaping people through culture is fully utilized, establishing for young students a psychological foundation, emotional belonging, and value identification with the cultural characteristics of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and transforming them into long-term, stable behavioral patterns and cultural psychology.

内在与外在相融合。红色资源汲取了中华优秀传统文化、革命文化、社会主义先进文化中的优秀基因，将宏大的历史架构转化为可感、可知、可学、可行的教育素材。通过将红色文化资源融入高校“大思政课”建设，充分发挥其以文化人、以文育人、以文塑人的重要作用，为青年学生建立具有中国特色社会主义文化特征的心理基础、情感归属和价值认同，并转化为长期性、稳定性的行为方式与文化心理。

The Logical Representation of Integrating Red Culture into Ideological-Political Courses

红色文化融入思政课的逻辑表征

The “grand ideological-political course” in universities is an important lever for the Party to strengthen and improve school ideological-political education in the New Era. Integrating red cultural resources into the construction of “grand ideological-political courses” in universities plays an important role in improving young students’ political acumen and political discernment, and in preventing and defusing major security risks.

高校“大思政课”是党加强和改进新时代学校思想政治教育的重要抓手。将红色文化资源融入高校“大思政课”建设，对提高青年学生的政治敏锐性和政治鉴别力、防范化解重大安全风险具有重要作用。

The unity of the generative foundation. Red resources carry the occurrence, development, and innovation of the combination of the basic principles of Marxism with China’s specific realities, reflecting how Chinese Communists have realized adapting Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of the times in the great process of China’s revolution, construction, and reform. As an important form of the Party’s ideological education, the “grand ideological-political course” in universities follows the theoretical, principled, and philosophical aspects of Marxism, fully reflecting the comprehensive application of Marxist theory, principles, and methods in the university field. Both jointly demonstrate the vitality of Marxist theory and share the same epistemological and methodological foundation.

生成基础的统一性。红色资源承载着马克思主义基本原理同中国具体实际相结合的发生、发展以及创新，反映了中国共产党人在中国革命、建设、改革的伟大进程中如何实现马克思主义中国化时代化。高校“大思政课”作为党的意识形态教育的重要形式，遵循着马克思主义的学理、道理、哲理，充分体现了马克思主义理论、原则、方法在高校场域下的综合运用。二者共同展示了马克思主义理论的生命力，具有相同的认识论和方法论基础。

The commonality of cultural roots. Fine traditional Chinese culture provides the spiritual core and historical heritage for “grand ideological-political courses” in universities, embodying the value function for the construction of “grand ideological-political courses” through forms such as personality shaping, cultural identity, and feelings of family and country. The integration of red cultural resources into “grand ideological-political courses” realizes the discourse reconstruction and contemporary expression of the elements of the Chinese national spirit and Chinese cultural connotations.

文化根基的共同性。中华优秀传统文化为高校“大思政课”提供了精神内核和历史底蕴，以人格塑造、文化认同、家国情怀等形式体现了对“大思政课”建设的价值功用。红色文化资源融入“大思政课”实现了对中华民族精神与中华文化内涵要素的话语重构和时代表达。

The similarity of educational functions. The “grand ideological-political course” in universities is an upgrade and transformation of “ideological-political courses” in terms of functional attributes, activity platforms, and educational synergy, playing an important role in forging souls, educating people, and setting the direction for young students in the New Era. Essentially, the starting point of both is to achieve the goals of building consensus, unifying thought, and fostering virtue through nurturing people by constructing discourse systems and practice systems.

育人功能的相似性。高校“大思政课”是“思政课”在功能属性、活动平台、育人合力方面的升级改造，在新时代青年学生中具有铸魂育人、举旗定向的重要作用。从本质上看，二者的出发点都在于通过构建话语体系、实践体系，达到凝聚共识、统一思想、立德树人的目的。

The Practical Path for Integrating Red Culture into Ideological-Political Courses

红色文化融入思政课的实践路径

Improve the institutional system. The integration of red resources into the construction of “grand ideological-political courses” should be comprehensively laid out with systematic thinking, bottom-line thinking, and scientific thinking. First, consolidate the leadership system of unified leadership by the Party committee, joint management by the Party and government, and respective responsibilities of departments, fully coordinate functional departments such as education, management, and service to comprehensively utilize various elements of red resources, so that on the basis of “guarding their own section of the canal” and “cultivating their own responsibility field,” departments can synergistically exert the educational effect of “diverting water into the field”—ensuring not only that all departments work together but also coordination and balance, avoiding homogenization and overlap of educational activities. Second, through the coordinated operation of evaluation mechanisms, assessment mechanisms, management mechanisms, training mechanisms, and guarantee mechanisms, improve the feasibility of red resources in the construction of “grand ideological-political courses” in universities.

健全制度体系。红色资源融入“大思政课”建设要以系统思维、底线思维、科学思维进行综合布局。一是夯实党委统一领导、党政齐抓共管、部门各负其责的领导体制，充分协调教育、管理、服务等职能部门综合运用红色资源的各类要素，使各部门在“守好一段渠”“种好责任田”的基础上，协同发挥“引水入田”的教育效果——既要确保各部门共同发力，也要协调均衡，避免教育活动的同质化、重叠化。二是通过评估机制、考核机制、管理机制、培训机制、保障机制的协作运行，提高红色资源在高校“大思政课”建设中的可行性。

Innovate educational mechanisms. First, strengthen the connection between academic stages and promote integrated construction. Red resources should be incorporated into the overall layout of the integrated construction of ideological-political courses in universities, middle schools, and primary schools, paying attention to comprehensive consideration of university students in terms of knowledge level, disciplinary perspective, professional ability, and employment orientation, achieving orderly integration of red resources with university curriculum teaching, ideological education, daily management, employment guidance, and social practice, and continuously enhancing the “adhesion” and targeting of red resources in university education, management, and service. Second, expand the educational field and consolidate educational synergy. While adhering to the function of university classroom teaching as the main front, broaden the boundaries of life education through class and league building, peer guidance, and one-stop student community co-construction; improve the level of family education integrating family influence, family tradition education, and parental cultivation; construct a social education matrix with venue construction, resource complementarity, and teacher collaboration; and build a new educational pattern of regional linkage, resource connection, and advantage combination.

创新育人机制。一是加强学段衔接，促进一体化建设。要将红色资源纳入大中小学思政课一体化建设的总体布局中，注重对大学生在知识层次、学科视角、专业能力、就业取向等方面的综合考虑，实现红色资源与高校课程教学、思想教育、日常管理、就业指导、社会实践等方面的有序衔接，不断增强红色资源在高校教育管理服务中的“黏附力”和针对性。二是拓展育人场域，凝聚教育合力。在坚持发挥高校课堂教学主阵地功能的同时，拓宽以班团建设、朋辈牵引、一站式学生社区共建的生活教育界限，提升以家庭熏陶、家风教育、家长培育为一体的家庭教育水平，构建以场馆建设、资源互补、师资协同配合的社会教育矩阵，建成区域联动、资源联通、优势联合的育人新格局。

Stimulate theoretical vitality. Continuously update narrative content, optimize expression techniques, and innovate forms of expression to expand the connotation of red resources. By creating warm educational materials for red culture, integrate the Party’s innovative theories, successful cases of great changes in the New Era, and education on the histories of the Party, the People’s Republic of China, reform and opening up, and socialist development [1]1 “四史”教育 (education on the four histories) refers to the study of the history of the Communist Party of China, the history of the People’s Republic of China, the history of reform and opening up, and the history of socialist development. into the construction system of “grand ideological-political courses” in universities, continuously enhancing the appeal and attraction of red resources for young university students in the New Era, achieving rational analysis, emotional touch, and flexible drive.

激发理论活力。要不断更新叙事内容、优化表达技巧、创新表现形式，拓展红色资源的内涵。通过创设有温度的红色文化育人素材，将党的创新理论、新时代伟大变革成功案例、“四史”教育等相关内容融入高校“大思政课”建设体系中，不断增强新时代红色资源对青年大学生的感召力和吸引力，做到理性分析、感性触动、柔性驱动。

Enrich educational carriers. First, strengthen the linkage and connection of activities. Fully integrate the daily education, special education, and thematic education of red cultural resources, and deeply excavate the red elements and ideological-political elements in patriotic education, ideal and belief education, and core socialist values education. Seize major festivals, important nodes, and key events to carry out ceremonial education and experiential education, and pay attention to using red cultural resources to achieve convincing people with reason, moving people with emotion, and touching people with scenes. Second, promote the co-construction and sharing of resources. Take school history and school conditions as the basic content, deeply excavate the historical facts of universities overcoming difficulties, and focus on highlighting the advanced deeds of typical representatives such as meritorious professors, model workers, the most beautiful counselors, and annual college student figures, forming educational materials that balance theory and practice, blend scenes and emotions, and involve teacher-student interaction. Deeply integrate the red cultural resources within the region where the university is located, promote the linkage of resources inside and outside the school and the co-construction of education, and actively create educational IPs such as the university’s “red + N (rule of law, education, science and technology, figures) cultural journey.”

丰富教育载体。一是加强活动联动联通。将红色文化资源的日常教育、专项教育、专题教育充分结合起来，深入挖掘爱国主义教育、理想信念教育、社会主义核心价值观教育中的红色元素和思政元素。抓好重大节日、重要节点、重点事件开展仪式教育、体验教育，注重运用红色文化资源实现以理服人、以情动人、以景感人。二是推进资源共建共享。以校史校情为基本内容，深入挖掘高校攻坚克难的历史史实，重点突出功勋教授、劳动模范、最美辅导员及大学生年度人物等典型代表的先进事迹，形成理实并重、情景交融、师生互动的育人材料。深度结合高校所在区域内的红色文化资源，促成校内外资源联动和育人共建，积极打造高校“红色+N（法治、教育、科技、人物）文化之旅”等教育IP。

(This article is a phased result of the Shaanxi Provincial Social Science Fund Project “Research on the Improvement of the Quality and Ability of Ideological and Political Course Teachers in Universities in the New Era” (2024A006))

（本文系陕西省社科基金项目“新时代高校思政课教师素质能力提升研究”（2024A006）阶段性成果）

(The author is the Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Northwest University of Political Science and Law)

（作者系西北政法大学党委副书记）

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