The General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued the Opinions on Strengthening the Construction of Marxist Colleges in the New Era

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 21. Recently, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued the "Opinions on Strengthening the Construction of the Marxist Academy in the New Era" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions") and issued a notice requesting all regions and departments to conscientiously implement it in light of actual conditions.
The Opinions pointed out that Marxism is the fundamental guiding ideology for the establishment of our party and the country. The Marxist Academy is the main position for studying, researching and propagating Marxism. The ideological and political theory course is the Marxist Academy's insistence on using Xi Jinping's new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics to cast its soul. The main channel for educating people. Strengthening the construction of the Institute of Marxism is an important measure to deepen the theoretical research and construction of Marxism, an inherent requirement for cultivating new people in the era of national rejuvenation, and for building philosophy and social sciences with Chinese characteristics under the guidance of Marxism, building a socialist ideology with strong cohesion and leadership, and further enriching and developing contemporary Chinese Marxism and 21st century Marxism. To highlight the socialist background of Chinese universities, it is of great significance to guide young students to firmly establish the lofty ideal of communism and the common ideal of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and to train generations of socialist builders and successors.
The "Opinions" pointed out that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, relevant departments and units in various regions have implemented the requirements of the Party Central Committee, promoted the construction of the Marxist Academy to make great progress, and all aspects of work have reached a new level. At the same time, compared with the new requirements of the new era, there are still gaps in education and teaching, research and publicity, team building, and talent training in the School of Marxism. The discipline construction of Marxist theory needs to be strengthened urgently. We must adapt to the urgent needs of the new situation and new tasks, base ourselves on the overall situation of the cause of the party and the state, take strengthening the construction of Marxist colleges as a basic and strategic project, and promote the realization of high-quality development.
The "opinion" makes it clear that to strengthen the construction of Marxist colleges in the new era, we should adhere to the guidance of Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the important thinking of "three represents", the scientific concept of development, and Xi Jinping's thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. Fully implement the party's educational policy, adhere to the socialist direction of running schools, and implement the fundamental task of establishing morality and cultivating people, further clarify responsibilities and missions, promote connotative development, strengthen policy guarantees, and strive to build a strong position for Marxist theoretical education and teaching, research and publicity, and talent training, so as to provide solid learning for the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country and the realization of the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation Theoretical support and talent support. We must adhere to the correct direction, adhere to soul-building and education, adhere to integrity and innovation, adhere to systematic planning, and actively explore the laws of Marxist theoretical education and teaching, discipline development, and talent training to better serve the overall situation of the party and the country.
The "Opinions" pointed out that it is necessary to solidly promote the connotative development of Marxism colleges. Strengthen the construction of Marxist theoretical disciplines, orient quasi-disciplines, and give full play to the leading role of Marxist theoretical disciplines. Vigorously promote the reform and innovation of ideological and political theory courses, work hard on political guidance, academic interpretation and value shaping, and improve teaching effectiveness. Strengthen the construction of the curriculum system and teaching material system, fully penetrate and organically integrate the party's theoretical innovation achievements into various courses, and effectively enhance the political, contemporary, scientific and readable nature of the teaching materials. Based on the fresh practice of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, we should find the breakthrough point, focus and combination point, and strengthen the research and publicity of Marxist theory. Efforts should be made to build a team of high-quality teachers with firm belief, solid theoretical foundation, sufficient quantity and optimized structure, so as to enhance the sense of mission, identity and gain. Improve the quality of professional personnel training, and continuously cultivate reserve talents of Marxist theory.
The Opinions pointed out that it is necessary to strengthen the policy support mechanism for the construction of Marxist colleges. Taking the effectiveness of educating people as the standard, we should improve the assessment and evaluation system that reflects the characteristics of Marxist theory, meets the inherent requirements of ideological and political theory teaching, and is conducive to the professional development of teachers. With the goal of cultivating teachers who really learn, understand, believe and use Marxism, improve the training system, increase support, and improve the incentive mechanism for teacher growth. Firmly establish the concept of full-staff, full-process, and all-round education, establish a collaborative education mechanism, and realize the same direction of curriculum ideological and political courses, and the same frequency resonance of daily ideological and political work and ideological and political courses. Strengthen the construction of Marxist theoretical academic positions, cultivate and consolidate the development platform, and build a platform support system. Build strong and excellent national key Marxist colleges, improve the quality of development, strengthen demonstration radiation, strengthen construction management, and take the national key Marxist colleges as the traction to promote the formation of a situation in which all kinds of Marxist colleges promote each other, develop together, and advance as a whole.
The "Opinions" emphasized the need to effectively strengthen the party's leadership over the construction of Marxist colleges. Party committees at all levels should put the construction of Marxist colleges in an important position, strengthen leadership and overall planning. Propaganda, education and other departments should provide strong policy guidance, organizational guarantee and financial support for the construction of Marxist colleges. The unit of the Marxist College should take the Marxist College as a key college, the Marxist theory discipline as a key discipline, and the ideological and political theory course as a key course to strengthen the construction and give priority to guarantee. It is necessary to strictly supervise and assess, and intensify the inspection of the construction of Marxist colleges in the special inspection of the ideological work responsibility system carried out in conjunction with inspections. The construction of the Marxist college is listed as an important part of the assessment of the party building work and the quality of running a school, as an important reference for the comprehensive assessment and evaluation of the leading group, main leaders and leaders in charge of the unit, so as to promote the construction of a strong Marxist college.

Source: Xinhua News Agency