The Educational Value of the Great Achievements in Poverty Alleviation for Ideological and Political Courses

Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, the people of all ethnic groups across the country have worked together and fought with determination, successfully winning the battle against poverty, fulfilling the commitment to history and the people, and forging great achievements in poverty alleviation that are recorded in the annals of history. These great achievements can, in certain contexts, be transformed into teaching resources with significant functions for ideological and political education. They need to be explored, fully explained, and systematically applied, with the key focus on fully leveraging their educational value in ideological and political courses to enhance political identity, strengthen the sense of responsibility, and establish a grand historical perspective.

党的十八大以来，在以习近平同志为核心的党中央坚强领导下，全国各族人民同心协力、奋勇攻坚，圆满打赢脱贫攻坚战，兑现了对历史和人民的承诺，铸就了载入史册的脱贫攻坚伟大成就。这些伟大成就在一定场域中可以转化为具有显著思想政治教育功能的教学资源，需要对其加以发掘、充分阐释和系统应用，重点是要充分发挥其增强政治认同、强化担当意识和树立大历史观的思政课育人价值。

Enhancing College Students’ Political Identity

增强大学生政治认同

The great achievements in the field of poverty alleviation in China fully demonstrate the political advantages

中国在脱贫攻坚领域取得的伟大成就，充分彰显了党的领导和社会主义制度的政治优势。由脱贫攻坚伟大实践与成就转化而来的教学资源，精准契合了新时代思政课教学的新形势、新任务、新要求，能够有效增强思政课的针对性与吸引力。它将引领大学生深刻感悟在习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想科学指引下，党领导的脱贫攻坚事业取得的举世瞩目巨大成就、产生的深远历史影响，进而让大学生清晰认识到，脱贫攻坚积累的宝贵经验、凝聚的强大力量，正为以中国式现代化全面推进强国建设、民族复兴伟业注入不竭动力。

Fully utilizing the great achievements in poverty alleviation is conducive to guiding college students to enhance their political identity from the ideological power of these achievements. Political identity is the consciousness of belonging to a political stance gradually constructed by the subject in political practice, specifically manifested as a clear cognition of one’s own political identity and conscious adherence to political norms. In the teaching practice of ideological and political courses, the core of deepening political identity is to enhance college students’ identification with the Party’s leadership and the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

充分运用好脱贫攻坚伟大成就，有利于引导大学生从成就的思想伟力中增强政治认同。政治认同是主体在政治实践中逐步建构的政治立场归属意识，具体表现为对自身政治身份的明确认知与对政治规范的自觉遵循。在思政课教学实践中，深化政治认同的核心是增强大学生对党的领导和中国特色社会主义制度的认同。

On the one hand, college students’ political identity can be enhanced by highlighting the political advantages of the Party’s leadership. The great achievements in poverty alleviation prove that the Party’s leadership provided a strong political and organizational guarantee for poverty alleviation. Specifically, the Party’s leadership provided comprehensive, systematic, scientific, and reasonable top-level design, political leadership, and organizational guarantees for the attainment of the great achievements in poverty alleviation. On the other hand, college students’ political identity can be enhanced by highlighting the institutional advantages of socialism with Chinese characteristics. The ability to concentrate resources to accomplish large undertakings is a significant political advantage of the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics, an important guarantee for uniting the strength of the people across the country to overcome difficulties, an important magic weapon for advancing the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and the fundamental support for the great achievements in poverty alleviation. The relevant great achievements highlight the institutional advantages of socialism with Chinese characteristics and effectively enhance college students’ political identity.

一方面，可以通过彰显党的领导政治优势增强大学生政治认同。脱贫攻坚伟大成就证明党的领导为脱贫攻坚提供了坚强政治和组织保证。具体而言，党的领导为脱贫攻坚伟大成就的取得提供了全面系统、科学合理的顶层设计、政治领导和组织保障。另一方面，可以通过彰显中国特色社会主义制度优势增强大学生政治认同。集中力量办大事是中国特色社会主义制度的显著政治优势，是凝聚全国人民力量攻坚克难的重要保障，也是推进中国特色社会主义事业的重要法宝，还是脱贫攻坚取得伟大成就的根本支撑。相关伟大成就彰显了中国特色社会主义制度优势，并有效增强了大学生政治认同。

Strengthening College Students’ Sense of Responsibility

强化大学生担当意识

Strengthen college students’ sense of responsibility and forge their ability and capacity for responsibility through practical teaching on the great achievements in poverty alleviation. Using the great achievements in poverty alleviation as an important resource for ideological and political course teaching, skillfully integrating the theoretical teaching of ideological and political courses with the improvement of practical abilities, and using vivid cases of the great achievements in poverty alleviation in the “walking ideological and political classroom” to present the arduous process of achieving these achievements can expand ideological and political course teaching to the vast battlefield of poverty alleviation. By organizing college students to go deep into poverty alleviation practice bases and rural fields, carrying out various forms of practical teaching activities, and using immersive teaching methods, college students’ sense of responsibility for their era’s mission can be strengthened.

以脱贫攻坚伟大成就实践教学强化大学生担当意识，锻造担当本领与能力。将脱贫攻坚伟大成就作为思政课教学的重要资源，巧妙将思政课理论教学与实践能力提升深度融合，在“行走的思政课堂”中运用脱贫攻坚伟大成就鲜活案例呈现成就取得的艰辛历程，能够将思政课教学拓展至广阔的脱贫攻坚战场。通过组织大学生深入脱贫攻坚实践基地、乡村田野，开展形式多样的实践教学活动，并以沉浸式教学方式，强化大学生对自身时代使命的担当。

To achieve the strategic goals of poverty alleviation, a series of far-sighted policies were successively introduced, from industrial poverty alleviation, educational poverty alleviation to health poverty alleviation, with the policy system interlocking. For example, the strategy of “targeted poverty alleviation” [1]1 “Targeted poverty alleviation” (精准扶贫) is a strategy emphasizing precise identification, targeted measures, and tailored assistance for poor households and regions, rather than broad-brush approaches. accurately identified poverty-stricken targets, formulated assistance plans for each household, and allowed poverty alleviation resources to precisely reach every poor family. Behind this lies in-depth research and scientific analysis of the national poverty situation, reflecting the top-level designers’ responsibility in facing the reality of poverty and bravely shouldering the historical mission. Providing力所能及的 poverty reduction assistance to developing countries, contributing Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to the global poverty reduction cause, it has won widespread recognition from all sectors of society and extensive praise from the international community, demonstrating the responsibility and action of a responsible major country.

为实现脱贫攻坚战略目标，一系列高屋建瓴的政策相继出台，从产业扶贫、教育扶贫到健康扶贫，政策体系环环相扣。如“精准扶贫”方略，精准识别贫困对象，一户一策制定帮扶计划，让扶贫资源精准滴灌到每一个贫困家庭。这背后是对全国贫困状况的深度调研、科学分析，体现出顶层设计者直面贫困现实、勇挑历史重任的担当。为发展中国家提供力所能及的减贫帮助，为全球减贫事业贡献了中国智慧和中国方案，赢得了社会各界普遍认同和国际社会广泛赞誉，展现了负责任大国的担当作为。

On the front line of poverty alleviation, millions of grassroots cadres were the main force shouldering responsibility. They took root in remote mountainous areas, eating, living, and working together with the poor. Many cadres were far away from their families and faced harsh working conditions without complaint. For example, Huang Wenxiu, Huang Dafa, and Qiu Jun [2]2 Huang Wenxiu (1989–2019) was a Party official who died in a flash flood while working in poverty alleviation in Guangxi; Huang Dafa (b. 1935) is a village Party secretary who spent decades building a canal through a mountain to bring water to his village; Qiu Jun (d. 2020) was a poverty alleviation cadre in Gansu who died of overwork.. It was precisely countless poverty alleviation cadres like them who bravely shouldered heavy burdens, gnawed on hard bones, and took on hot potatoes, consciously integrating the “small self” into the “big picture,” overcoming numerous difficulties, and interpreting the indomitable will to never give up until the goal is achieved with practical actions, ensuring that poverty alleviation policies took root.

在脱贫一线，数百万基层干部是担当作为的主力军。他们扎根偏远山区，与贫困群众同吃同住同劳动。许多干部远离家人，面对恶劣的工作环境毫无怨言。比如，黄文秀、黄大发与邱军等。正是无数像他们这样的扶贫干部，勇于挑重担子、啃硬骨头、接烫手山芋，自觉把“小我”融入“大局”中，克服重重困难，以实际行动诠释了不达目的不罢休的攻坚意志，将脱贫政策落地生根。

Poverty alleviation was not a “one-man show” by the government; it required pooling the active participation of all sectors of society to form a strong joint force. Enterprises leveraged their advantages in capital, technology, and markets to carry out industrial cooperation with poor areas; social organizations went deep into poor areas to provide education and medical assistance; volunteers traveled thousands of miles to deliver knowledge and services; the people’s desire for a better life became stronger, and many poor people gradually shed the mentality of “waiting, relying on, and asking for,” transforming from “being lifted out of poverty” to “wanting to lift themselves out of poverty.” With the joint efforts of all sectors and industries in society, different subjects pulled together as one rope to overcome the difficulties of poverty alleviation.

脱贫攻坚并非政府“单打独斗”，需要凝聚社会各界力量踊跃参与，形成各方参与的强大合力。企业发挥资金、技术、市场优势，与贫困地区开展产业合作；社会组织深入贫困地区开展教育、医疗援助，志愿者不远千里送知识、送服务；人民群众对美好生活的追求意愿更加强烈，许多贫困群众逐渐摆脱了“等、靠、要”思想，从“要我脱贫”转变为“我要脱贫”。在全社会各方面、各行业的共同努力下，不同主体拧成一股绳，攻克脱贫难题。

Establishing a Correct View of History

树立正确的历史观

The great achievements in poverty alleviation are lofty in conception and profound in implication, systematically running through the materialist grand view of history with which Chinese Communists view problems. This points the way and provides epistemological guidance for college students to correctly view and understand the great significance of the great achievements in poverty alleviation. Therefore, using the great achievements in poverty alleviation to teach ideological and political courses can help college students systematically master the historical materialist grand view of history, deeply grasp the present in the process of summing up experience, and learn to look forward to the future. At the same time, it helps college students, standing at the depth of historical laws and the height of the evolution of civilization, to conduct in-depth research on the history of poverty alleviation, profoundly summarize the experiences and inspirations of poverty alleviation, and systematically draw wisdom and strength from them, so as to better transform, replicate, and disseminate the great experiences of poverty alleviation.

脱贫攻坚伟大成就立意高远、蕴含深刻，其中系统贯穿着中国共产党人看待问题的唯物主义大历史观，为大学生正确看待与理解脱贫攻坚伟大成就的重大意义指明了方向、提供了认识论遵循。因此，运用脱贫攻坚伟大成就讲好思政课，可以帮助大学生系统掌握历史唯物主义大历史观，在总结经验过程中深刻把握现在，并学会展望未来。同时，有助于大学生站在历史规律深处与文明演进的高度，深入开展脱贫攻坚史研究，深刻总结脱贫攻坚经验启示，从中系统汲取智慧与力量，才能更好地将脱贫攻坚伟大经验进行转化、复制与传播。

First, it helps college students deeply grasp that the great achievements in poverty alleviation have forged a historical monument for the Chinese nation to bid farewell to absolute poverty and created a new paradigm for the cause of human poverty reduction. From the concept of “the world is for all” (天下为公) in the pre-Qin period to the spirit of seeking by modern aspirants, eliminating poverty has always been the dream of the Chinese nation. Taking the program of the Second National Congress of the CPC [3]3 The Second National Congress of the CPC, held in July 1922 in Shanghai, formulated the Party’s first program and set the goal of eliminating poverty and achieving social justice as part of its anti-imperialist, anti-feudal platform. as the theoretical starting point, relying on the institutional framework of New China, through systematic poverty alleviation in reform and opening up, and in the New Era, the strategic promotion of “six precisions” and “five batches” [4]4 “Six precisions” (六个精准) refers to precision in targeting, measures, project arrangement, use of funds, dispatch of personnel, and poverty reduction results. “Five batches” (五个一批) refers to five approaches: developing production, relocating for development, ecological compensation, education, and social security. led to the achievement of poverty alleviation goals. Second, it helps college students deeply grasp the New Era connotation that the great achievements in poverty alleviation have injected into the theory of the essence of socialism. The attainment of the great achievements in poverty alleviation is inseparable from the scientific grasp of the essence of socialism. Poverty alleviation always adhered to the essential requirements of socialism: eliminating poverty, improving people’s livelihood and well-being, and achieving common prosperity. It successfully achieved the goal of lifting all rural poor out of poverty under the current standard, further deepening the understanding of the essence of socialism. Third, it helps college students deeply grasp the spiritual power contained in the great achievements in poverty alleviation. The spirit of poverty alleviation—“uniting as one, deploying the best forces, being precise and pragmatic, pioneering and innovating, overcoming difficulties, and living up to the people”—always takes putting the people first as its value core and has become a brilliant chapter in the spiritual lineage of Chinese Communists.

其一，有助于大学生深刻把握脱贫攻坚伟大成就铸就了中华民族告别绝对贫困的历史丰碑，开创了人类减贫事业新范式。自先秦“天下为公”理念至近代志士求索精神，都是把消除贫困当成中华民族的梦想。以党的二大纲领为理论起点，依托新中国制度框架，经改革开放系统扶贫，在新时代以“六个精准”“五个一批”战略推动脱贫攻坚目标达成。其二，有助于大学生深刻把握脱贫攻坚伟大成就为社会主义本质理论注入的新时代内涵。脱贫攻坚伟大成就的取得离不开对社会主义本质的科学把握。脱贫攻坚始终坚守消除贫困、增进民生福祉、实现共同富裕的社会主义本质要求，成功实现现行标准下农村贫困人口全部脱贫，进一步深化了对社会主义本质的认识。其三，有助于大学生深刻把握脱贫攻坚伟大成就蕴含的精神伟力。“上下同心、尽锐出战、精准务实、开拓创新、攻坚克难、不负人民”的脱贫攻坚精神，始终以人民至上为价值内核，已然成为中国共产党人精神谱系中熠熠生辉的璀璨篇章。

(The authors are a professor at the School of Marxism, Nanchang University; and a doctoral student at the School of Marxism, Nanchang University.)

（作者系南昌大学马克思主义学院教授；南昌大学马克思主义学院博士研究生）