General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that "ideological and political courses should solve the problem of students' ideals and beliefs." On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the school's ideological and political theory teachers' symposium, it is of great significance and value to discuss how to strengthen the education of college students' ideals and beliefs with the Party's innovative theory.

Ideal guides the direction of life, and faith determines the success or failure of a career. College students are the main force in carrying out the new mission and doing well in the work of the new journey. We should strengthen the guidance of Xi Jinping's thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era on the education of college students' ideals and beliefs, effectively guide college students to measure the land of the motherland with their feet, discover the Chinese spirit with their eyes, listen to the voice of the people with their ears, and sense the pulse of the times with their hearts.

Open the main channel to enrich classroom teaching

Ideological and political theory course is a key way to help college students establish correct world outlook, outlook on life and values. To make good use of the main channel of classroom teaching, the ideological and political theory course should be strengthened through improvement.

On the one hand, it is necessary to comprehensively understand and systematically grasp the truth, science and philosophy contained in the Party's innovation theory, and organically integrate the Party's systematic and scientific innovation theory into the teaching content and links.

On the other hand, we should respect the dominant position of college students, improve the affinity and pertinence of ideological and political theory teaching in accordance with the growth and development needs and expectations of college students, stimulate college students to understand the country and society with Marxist standpoint and methods in a more vivid and flexible teaching form, and further enhance the attractiveness and appeal of ideal and belief education.

Gather positive energy to create a civilized campus

To do a good job of ideological and political work in colleges and universities, we should pay more attention to educating people with culture. On the one hand, the Party's innovative theory guides the construction of campus culture. We should correctly grasp the political direction and value orientation of campus culture construction, promote the normalization, institutionalization and standardization of civilized campus construction, widely carry out the practice of civilized campus construction, guide college students to strengthen their cultural self-confidence and shoulder the new cultural mission of the new era.

On the other hand, it is necessary to find the entry point and combination point of college students' personality development, integrate the excellent traditional Chinese culture, revolutionary culture and advanced socialist culture into the creation of campus brand featured cultural activities, carry out college students' community activities in various forms, healthy and progressive, and elegant style, mobilize the enthusiasm of college students, and guide them to integrate into the design of campus cultural activities It is being carried out and evaluated.

Expand information sources to strengthen social practice

If a value is to really play its role, it must be integrated into social life, so that people can perceive it and understand it in practice. Social practice is an important link and effective way of college students' ideal and belief education. On the one hand, extensive research activities are carried out. Organize college students to visit intangible cultural heritage, red cultural heritage and other bases, and carry out research activities such as Chinese civilization study and red culture research, so that college students can enhance their internal recognition of ideals and beliefs in the process of understanding Chinese history and Chinese context.

On the other hand, encourage college students to participate in social practice activities. Organize college students to go deep into enterprises, communities, rural areas and other grass-roots front-line, so that college students can feel the development, changes and brilliant achievements of the motherland, build a solid ideological foundation in the "melting pot" of social practice, and further strengthen the confidence and determination to follow the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

In short, in the process of enriching classroom teaching, building campus culture and expanding social practice, college students should be cultivated into good young people in the new era who have ideals, dare to take responsibility, can bear hardships and are willing to struggle. (Author: Wei Chonghui, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of the School of Marxism of Shanghai Jiaotong University, Ma Lei, Secretary of the Party Committee of China Europe International Business School of Shanghai Jiaotong University)

This paper is a phased achievement of the key project of the Ministry of Education's Chinese Excellent Traditional Culture Special Project (Category A) (Nishan World Confucianism Center/China Confucius Foundation Project Fund) "Research on the Historical Origin of the 'Chinese Spirit' and Its New Era and New Form" (23JDTCA058)