(Source: Xue Qiangguo "Frontline" Issue 3, 2025)
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized at the National Education Conference: “The education power we want to build is a socialist education power with Chinese characteristics. It should have strong ideological and political leadership, talent competitiveness, scientific and technological support, people’s livelihood security, social synergy, and international influence. It provides strong support for comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation with Chinese-style modernization. "The systematic proposal of the "Six Forces" construction constitutes the "six characteristics" of a strong socialist education country with Chinese characteristics, points out the construction direction, lays the ideological foundation, and provides fundamental compliance for the construction of a strong educational country.
Strive to enhance ideological and political leadership and comprehensively improve the ability and level of ideological and political work in colleges and universities
Who to train is the primary issue in education. The fundamental mission of our country’s universities is to cultivate people with moral integrity, to cultivate socialist builders and successors with comprehensive development of morality, intelligence, physical education, art, and labor, and to cultivate generations of useful talents who support the leadership of the Communist Party of my country and our country’s socialist system and are determined to strive for life-long socialism with Chinese characteristics. Colleges and universities must closely focus on the fundamental task of building moral character and cultivating people, insist on using Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to forge souls, educate and guide students to cultivate and practice the core socialist values, and become people with great love, great virtue, and great feelings. Focusing on enhancing ideological and political leadership is an important part of the dissemination, practice and promotion of ideological and political work. Promoting close coordination between ideological and political work in the new era and ideological and political education to ensure the correct direction of education and educating people is the fundamental guarantee for implementing the moral education project in the new era and cultivating socialist builders and successors, and is a solid support for promoting the construction of an educational power.
Strong ideological and political leadership is the primary characteristic of building a strong education country and the fundamental requirement of the political attributes of education. To promote the construction of a powerful country through education, we must adhere to the political nature of education, adhere to the correct political direction, strengthen the party's overall leadership over education by creating strong ideological and political leadership, and insist on education serving the people, serving the governance of the Communist Party of China, serving the consolidation and development of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, and serving reform, opening up, and socialist modernization. This is determined by our country's unique national conditions, unique cultural traditions, and unique social system. In the process of promoting the construction of ideological and political leadership, colleges and universities must focus on strengthening party building leadership, put the party's political construction first, firmly grasp the leadership and initiative of ideological and political education work, and always ensure that ideological and political education work moves in the correct political direction. Continuously improve the ideological and political work system, implement the concept of "big ideological and political courses", and enhance the contemporary nature, pertinence and effectiveness of ideological and political work. We should teach ideological and political courses with confidence, use the great achievements of my country's economic and social development and the historic changes that have taken place in the new era to let students personally understand the practical power of the Party's innovative theory, continue to deepen the educational effectiveness of the core socialist values, explain the standpoints, views, methods, principles and philosophy contained in them well, and guide the majority of young people to strive to become new people of the era who have ideals, dare to take responsibility, can endure hardships, and are willing to struggle. We should insist on taking teachers' ethics as the first standard, taking teachers' participation in ideological and political education as an important indicator of teacher evaluation, highlighting the leading position of ideological and moral evaluation in student evaluation, and promoting the integration of students' all-round development and personality development. Continuously optimize the teacher incentive and guarantee mechanism, improve the professional attractiveness and stability of ideological and political education work, give full play to teachers' enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity, and effectively promote the quality and efficiency of moral education. It is necessary to actively promote the deep integration of the traditional advantages of ideological and political work with emerging information technologies such as artificial intelligence, so that technology can empower ideological and political education and improve the communication efficiency of ideological and political education.
Strive to enhance the competitiveness of talents and comprehensively improve the ability and level of independent cultivation of talents
“The strength of a country is due to its people, and the development of talents comes from learning.” Talent is the first resource to promote economic and social development, improve comprehensive national strength and international competitiveness, and education is the main way to improve people’s comprehensive quality and promote people’s all-round development. We are closer than at any time in history to realizing the grand goal of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and we are more hungry for talents than at any time in history. "Adhere to facing the world's technological frontiers, facing the main economic battlefield, facing the country's major needs, and facing the people's lives and health" is the goal of talent work in the new era proposed by General Secretary Xi Jinping, who has profoundly grasped the needs of high-quality economic and social development in my country and the new situation of international talent competition, and based on the interests of the country and the people. It is also the coordinate orientation of strengthening talent work in the new era. Closely adhere to the "Four Orientations" strategic mission, cultivate and create more masters, strategic scientists, first-class scientific and technological leaders and innovation teams, young scientific and technological talents, outstanding engineers, great country craftsmen, and high-skilled talents, so as to form competitive advantages and talent highlands in the increasingly fierce international talent competition. This is of great significance to building a modern and powerful socialist country and comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Strong talent competitiveness is a key feature of building a strong educational country. Colleges and universities are important bases for cultivating talents and strategic highlands for gathering talents. They must adhere to the important mission of educating talents for the party and the country, actively respond to the urgent need for first-class talents for the development of the party and the country, strive to create a higher-level talent training system, and strive to create a campus ecosystem where talents can fully demonstrate their abilities. The "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Further Comprehensively Deepening Reform and Promoting Chinese-style Modernization" emphasizes that colleges and universities should "establish a discipline setting adjustment mechanism and talent training model driven by scientific and technological development and national strategic needs, make extraordinary arrangements for urgently needed disciplines and majors, strengthen the construction of basic disciplines, emerging disciplines, interdisciplinary disciplines and the cultivation of top talents, and strive to strengthen the cultivation of innovative capabilities." Colleges and universities should aim at the world's technological frontiers, focus on the needs of building a modern socialist country, take the initiative to layout emerging disciplines and majors based on development realities, promote interdisciplinary integration and interdisciplinary research, and timely adjust or update and upgrade disciplines and majors. Continuously improve and enhance the response mechanism of disciplines and majors to scientific and technological development and national strategic needs, build a high-quality discipline system with comprehensive and balanced development, build a platform for the training and growth of high-level talents, help talents stand out, and accumulate disciplinary talent advantages. Innovate and improve the independent talent training mechanism, effectively improve the level and quality of independent talent training, give full play to the main force in cultivating top talents, plan the training of top talents in an all-round way, break through conventions, and innovate the education model. Gather regional superior resources, innovative enterprises and national scientific and technological strength to jointly promote the construction of a talent training zone, provide key support for building a world-important talent center, an important education center and a global innovation highland, and provide a steady stream of large-scale national strategic talent for the realization of Chinese-style modernization.
Strive to enhance scientific and technological support and comprehensively improve the ability and level of serving the national development strategy
At present, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation are developing in depth. The wave of informatization, networking, digitalization and intelligence is comprehensively and profoundly shaping the new look of human society. Scientific and technological innovation has become a key factor affecting economic development and national security. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "If China wants to be strong and rejuvenated, it must vigorously develop science and technology and strive to become the world's major science center and innovation highland." Closely combining the development of strategic, cutting-edge, and disruptive technological needs and carrying out major scientific research can provide intellectual support and talent reserves to solve the "stuck" problem of key core technologies, thereby driving the development of new productive forces, winning the battle against key core technologies, and improving the overall effectiveness of the national innovation system. Building strong scientific and technological support is the internal logical requirement and practical urgent need of the concept of "adhering to science and technology as the first productive force, talent as the first resource, and innovation as the first driving force". It is an important strategic opportunity and major mission for the reform and development of higher education in the new era.
Strong scientific and technological support is a characteristic of the times in building an educational power and an important manifestation of the strategic attributes of education. Colleges and universities are the source of major scientific and technological breakthroughs and the main battlefield for cultivating top-notch innovative talents. They must proactively meet and serve national strategic needs, strengthen basic research, strive to produce more results in original innovation and independent innovation, and bravely climb the world's technological peaks. Colleges and universities must attach great importance to basic research, enhance forward-looking sensitivity and initiative, aim at the frontiers of basic disciplines and scientific and technological innovation strategies, make long-term achievements, and contribute wisdom and strength to high-level scientific and technological self-reliance. Vigorously promote the spirit of scientists, attract and encourage scientists to sit on the "cold bench", gnaw on "hard bones", concentrate on long-term research, and devote themselves to innovation and creation. Deepen the reform of scientific research evaluation, establish a rating system based on contribution, quality and efficiency, establish a long-term evaluation mechanism based on trust and reputation, and create a relaxed, open and inclusive innovation atmosphere. Guided by solving major scientific problems and making breakthroughs in key core technologies, we will effectively promote organized scientific research and vigorously improve the degree of organization of basic research. Oriented by improving the capacity and quality of science and technology supply, actively expand the breadth and depth of w88 casino-enterprise collaboration, establish an achievement transformation mechanism that integrates multiple elements of industry, academia and research, promote the integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation, and promote the transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements to the industry. At the same time, colleges and universities should actively respond to the country's major strategic needs and economic and social development needs, deeply integrate into the forefront of scientific and technological development, cultivate new disciplines and professional growth points, and vigorously cultivate compound innovative talents. Deepen the comprehensive reform of higher education, smooth the virtuous cycle of education, science and technology, and talents, and effectively transform institutional advantages into governance effectiveness that promotes high-quality development in the reform and innovation of institutional mechanisms.
Strive to enhance people’s livelihood security and comprehensively improve the ability and level to meet the people’s high-quality education needs
Adhering to the people-centered development idea is a red line that runs through Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. To do a good job in all the work of the party and the country, we must take the realization, maintenance and development of the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people as the starting point and goal of all work. Education is related to the improvement of national quality and the future development of the country, and is the practical need for a better life for the people. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out: "Adhere to the people-centered development of education, accelerate the construction of a high-quality education system, develop quality education, and promote educational equity." We must give full play to the universal benefit, accessibility, and convenience of educational public services, strive to build a high-quality and balanced basic public education service system, accelerate the construction of a high-quality education system, and provide education that satisfies the people. Increasing efforts to protect and improve people's livelihood is of great significance to promoting educational equity, creating a new situation for high-quality education development, and enhancing the people's sense of gain and happiness in the Chinese-style modernization drive.
Strong people's livelihood security is the people's livelihood characteristic of building a powerful country through education, and it is an important manifestation of the attributes of educating the people. High-quality higher education resources rely on the yearning of hundreds of millions of families for a better life. Colleges and universities must make greater efforts to ensure educational fairness and optimize education supply, continuously improve the quality and level of education, and provide a solid guarantee for a happier and better life for the people. In terms of promoting educational equity, colleges and universities should do everything possible to expand vertical mobility channels for poor students in rural and remote areas. Through the implementation of the National Enrollment Collaboration Plan to Support the Central and Western Regions and the Special Plan of Key Colleges and Universities for Rural and Poverty-Less Areas, create fairer admission opportunities for poor students, provide a better educational environment, and effectively provide various guarantees for them to study with peace of mind, successfully complete their studies, and successfully find employment. Let every student have the opportunity to change his destiny with knowledge and get a brilliant life by "learning hard", and accumulate talents for comprehensively promoting rural revitalization and promoting coordinated regional development. In terms of optimizing education supply, colleges and universities must further modernize their internal governance systems and governance capabilities, optimize educational resources and environment, improve service guarantee efficiency, and use teacher and student satisfaction as the fundamental criterion for judging work. Efforts should be made to respond to the people's expectations for high-quality educational resources, actively support the optimization and adjustment of the layout of higher education resources, continuously promote resource sharing, assist the development of lifelong education, and better meet the people's needs for more equitable and higher-quality higher education.
Strive to enhance social synergy and comprehensively improve the ability and level of the whole society to support the high-quality development of universities
“If you can use the power of all, you will be invincible in the world; if you can use the wisdom of all, you will be fearless in the saints.” General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: “Schools, families, and society must cooperate closely and work in the same direction, actively participate in the practice of strengthening the country through education, and jointly run a good education "Educating a strong country is the common responsibility of the whole party and the whole society. It is necessary to develop and coordinate the educational resources of the whole society to run the education cause, widely gather strong synergy and effectiveness, and comprehensively improve the ability and level of the whole society to support the high-quality development of universities." General Secretary Xi Jinping specifically pointed out that we must "persist in prioritizing the development of education as an important first move to promote the development of various undertakings of the party and the country." Actively promoting the in-depth integration and collaborative innovation of various elements of society through the construction of a powerful country through education is an important path to support and lead Chinese-style modernization. It is necessary to gather strong social synergy to provide impetus and stimulate vitality for the reform in the education field to break through the constraints of ideological concepts and institutional shortcomings, comprehensively improve the modernization level of the education governance system and governance capabilities, and achieve a systematic leap and qualitative change from a big education country to a powerful education country.
Strong social synergy is the social characteristic of building an educational power and an inherent requirement of the law of educational development. Education has never existed independently. Schools, families, and society are an inseparable and organic whole. In today's era, they have become an important ecological system that supports the development of education. Upholding and strengthening the Party's overall leadership over universities provides political and organizational guarantees for the establishment of collaborative mechanisms. A good social collaborative system is to form a collaborative education pattern and diversified investment mechanism in colleges and universities, party and government agencies at all levels, social groups, enterprises and institutions, as well as towns (streets), villages (communities), and families, integrate various educational resources, and gather the joint efforts of "everyone, everything, all the time, and everywhere" in educating people. For example, in the integrated construction of ideological and political courses in universities, middle schools and primary schools, a pattern of close vertical connection and effective horizontal linkage has been established. In terms of curriculum integration, textbook connectivity, teaching integration, etc., universities, middle schools and primary schools have jointly made efforts, and the competent authorities at all levels have coordinated and promoted it to form an overall linked w88 casino, family and society collaborative education mechanism. Another example is that in terms of promoting high-quality and full employment, colleges and universities scientifically study and judge the development trend of human resources, and coordinate professional settings, training quality, career guidance and employment services. State agencies, institutions, and state-owned enterprises "take the lead in breaking away from the orientation of only prestigious schools and academic qualifications, establishing a talent utilization mechanism based on morality and ability, setting a good example for the whole society, and shouldering the social responsibility of educating people." The whole society should establish a correct view of employment and create a good public opinion atmosphere and an inclusive social environment that is conducive to the employment and entrepreneurship of college graduates. Colleges and universities give full play to their unique role as the intersection of education, science and technology, and talent, actively collaborate with government and social forces, build effective platforms that link all parties, aggregate innovative elements, promote industry-university-research collaboration, integrate talent chains, industry chains, capital chains, and policy chains, and bring together the joint efforts of all parties.
Strive to enhance international influence and comprehensively enhance the ability and level of high-level education opening
In today’s world, educational exchanges and cooperation are extensive and in-depth. Open exchange in education is an important part of my country's opening-up strategy. It is an important way for education to be deeply integrated into high-level opening-up and to expand the breadth and depth of Chinese modernization in the world. It is an important support for major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics, exchanges between Chinese and foreign civilizations, and people-to-people bonds. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized at the National Education Conference: “We must further promote the opening up of education to the outside world, coordinate ‘bringing in’ and ‘going out’, and continuously enhance the international influence, competitiveness and voice of our country’s education. Expand international academic exchanges and educational and scientific research cooperation, actively participate in global education governance, and contribute to the promotion of global education. The development of education contributes more to China. "Promoting the opening up of high-level education and building our country into an important education center with global influence will help enhance our country's comprehensive national strength and international competitiveness, promote the common development of global education, and inject powerful force into the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind."
Strong international influence is a global characteristic of building an educational power and an important mission for high-level education opening. Colleges and universities must deepen comprehensive reforms with a global perspective, promote my country's education opening to the outside world to a higher level, continuously enhance international influence and attraction, and play a greater role in responding to new trends and challenges in global education reform. Our country's universities must first refine educational concepts and academic achievements with Chinese characteristics based on their own experience and practice, effectively enhance China's voice in global education, and form unique advantages in the global education system. Colleges and universities should strengthen international cooperation in higher education, effectively utilize world-class educational resources and innovative elements, and attract outstanding overseas talents to study in China. Use strategic thinking to continue to promote China's in-depth participation in global education governance, play the role of a responsible major country in international education organizations, continuously improve the ability to negotiate educational rules in bilateral and multilateral international rules, and give full play to the spillover effect of education on other fields. Provide more and higher-quality educational public products, and actively build a multi-party, diverse, and diversified educational openness and cooperation system. Make full use of the radiating and leading role of the “One Belt, One Road” initiative, actively participate in the establishment of international cooperation projects, and bilateral and multilateral educational exchange mechanisms, provide more high-quality educational resources for countries along the route, and promote connectivity in the education field.
(The author Huang Baoyin is Secretary of the Party Committee and Researcher at the w88 casino; Sun Xiaoxia is an Assistant Researcher at the w88 casino of Marxism at the w88 casino)
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