In the new era, the party central committee attaches great importance to the Party’s own construction and development. As the youngest and most active member of the party, the college student party member shoulders the important mission of the future construction and development of the motherland. It is an urgent problem to be solved about how to strengthen the college students’ party spirit cultivation of all ethnic groups and gather the strength from them in the process of training and developing college party members. From the perspective of “strengthening the moral education and cultivating people”, college students party members are the breakthrough point. Through investigating the students from different grade, major and nation with questionnaire investigation, logical analysis and other methods, we can grasp the currency of university students party members in self-cognition, self-education, self-improvement and self-development etc.; then we can seek effective ways in the training and development of new party members in colleges and universities.
In the new era, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core attaches great importance to and cares about the growth of young people. As the main force of the young generation, college students shoulder the great mission of strengthening the motherland and national rejuvenation. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, “cultivating people by virtue” has become the main theme of education. In his speech to the national Education Conference, Xi Jinping said: “We should take the effectiveness of cultivating people by virtue as the fundamental standard for testing all the work of schools. With cultivating people as the core and virtue as the fundamental, we should constantly train socialist builders and successors who are well-developed in moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and labor.” [
“Cultivating people by virtue is the foundation of colleges and universities. College culture should closely focus on the fundamental task of cultivating people by virtue, find the right focus, recognize the foothold, choose a good entry point, and consolidate the point of force.” [
The vast majority of student Party members in the school have clear learning objectives, correct learning attitude, clear the rights and obligations of Party members.62.18% of the students have firm political ideals. However, more than 30% of them have impure motives to join the party, have no lofty political ideals, and have utilitarianism and hedonism. How to strengthen the education of political belief and ideals and beliefs, cultivate student Party members’ road, theory, system and cultural confidence, has become an important direction of college student Party members training (
In the study of Marxist theory, 73.61% of the students rely on ideological and political public subjects. In terms of current political learning and ethnic education, 85.64% of the student Party members are conducted through the situation policy courses and the learning meetings organized by the college. The proportion of students’ active self-study is small, and only 13 respondents have studied the Marxist classics. 49.86% of student Party members have understanding or basic understanding of the connotation of Party spirit cultivation, and 41.89% are not familiar with the content of the Party Constitution. Thus it can be seen that the student party member political theory learning is mostly passive, resulting in the learning content is not systematic, in-depth and timely. How to stimulate the initiative and enthusiasm of students “political theory learning, guide students to form good learning habits, and cultivate students” core consciousness and international vision has become a major theme of Party building in universities in the new era (
“Stay true to the original aspiration and keep our mission firmly in mind” is the
| Questionnaire topic | Option percentage | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | B | C | D | |
| 1. What is your intention to join the party? | 60.44% | 23.63% | 12.28% | 3.65% |
| 2. What do your political beliefs prefer? | 62.18% | 18.33% | 14.26% | 5.23% |
| Questionnaire topic | Option percentage | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | B | C | D | |
| 3. What way do you study Marxist theory? | 73.61% | 14.42% | 10.24% | 1.73% |
| 4. What way do you learn about current politics and ethnic education? | 85.64% | 8.37% | 3.26% | 2.37% |
| 5. Do you know the content of the Party Constitution? | 11.27% | 21.62% | 25.22% | 41.89% |
| 6. Do you know what aspects of the party spirit cultivation of the party members include? | 11.20% | 23.62% | 26.24% | 38.94% |
requirement of every Party member in the new era [
In the activities held by the school, 84.82% of the student party members can take the lead, but they play a small role in innovation and entrepreneurship and various skills competitions. When there is bad atmosphere and misconduct around, 75.67% of student party members cannot quickly make a correct and reasonable judgment to resist the bad atmosphere. In terms of cultural knowledge and professional ability, more than 90% of student party members have good scores in cultural courses, but their ability to combine theory with practice is poor, and they lack long-term planning for self-growth. How to improve the ability of student party members to distinguish right from wrong and improve the comprehensive quality of student party members is the core element of enhancing the party spirit cultivation in colleges and universities (
| Questionnaire topic | Option percentage | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | B | C | D | |
| 7. Have you ever violated the school-level school rules? | 97.93% | 2.06% | 0.01% | 0.00% |
| 8. Do you abide by the Party Constitution and Party rules and require yourself according to the standards of Party members? | 74.78% | 18.07% | 6.26% | 0.89% |
| 9. Do you actively participate in the Party member activities organized by the school and the college on time? | 28.56% | 47.37% | 17.22% | 6.85% |
| 10. As a party member, can you accept the supervision of your classmates? | 19.87% | 28.92% | 35.02% | 16.19% |
| 11. Will you take the initiative to humble your other students in the grant evaluation? | 17.21% | 24.10% | 42.16% | 16.53% |
| Questionnaire topic | Option percentage | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | B | C | D | |
| 12. Do you think you take the lead in the activities held at the school? | 67.93% | 16.89% | 12.86% | 2.32% |
| 13. Have you ever participated in an innovation and entrepreneurship competition? | 3.47% | 2.19% | 0.71% | 0.01% |
| 14. Have you ever played in the skills competitions? | 6.25% | 4.08% | 2.73% | 0.87% |
| 15. Can you resist bad practices when there are bad practices and misconduct around you? | 2.46% | 21.87% | 12.76% | 62.91% |
| 16. Have you ever failed a course? | 82.73% | 14.42% | 2.03% | 0.82% |
| 17. Have you learned more combinations of theory and practice? | 5.63% | 24.69% | 41.83% | 27.85% |
Strengthening the party spirit cultivation of college student Party members is the key to maintain the advanced nature of the Communist Party members. Under the background of cultivating people by virtue, it is particularly urgent to combine moral education with student party building, and explore a new path to cultivate the comprehensive ability of student party members and improve the party spirit cultivation.
In the information age, the network culture affects the campus culture. All kinds of information troubles and affects the students. The state should strengthen the supervision of network information to ensure that students in a benign and healthy network environment, use Weibo, WeChat, QQ, Baidu and other software to understand current affairs and politics, pay attention to cutting-edge trends, and learn political theoretical knowledge. Colleges and universities should also strengthen the campus network supervision, to create a healthy and upward network public opinion environment. At the same time, make full use of the network platform and campus radio, do a good job in the ideological and political education and value guidance of student Party members, cultivate a Party member that can lead the campus public opinion, carry forward advanced deeds, spread positive energy, and radiate the surrounding students. Under the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, student Party members will become qualified Party members in the new era who speak politics, have ideals, understand rules, understand laws, learn knowledge, and serve the people. In addition, colleges should create a good campus environment for students, organize various forms of organization, strong practical party and league activities, so that student party members gather strength, take the head, do a good job of a good example, and can drive the surrounding students to actively close to the party organization.
In October 2015, Qinghai Normal University implemented the “moral education promotion project” and formulated the Interim Measures for Moral Education Practice Credits of Qinghai Normal University Based on the implementation plan of Qinghai Normal University on comprehensively constructing the civilized self-cultivation project for college students. Through the implementation of a series of measures, with the student party members as the starting point, the students’ spiritual civilization state has been greatly improved. In a period of time, the advanced nature and demonstration role of the model have been effectively played. Therefore, the further implementation of the “moral education promotion project”, in strict accordance with the procedures to develop party members, keep the process of developing party members, in-depth heart to heart talk, make full use of the network platform to carry out online supervision and offline education, to investigate the party activists, build teacher guidance, students independent, student supervision of long-term guidance mechanism.
To implement the fundamental task of cultivating people through virtue, we focus on the integration of knowledge and action. [
As the fundamental task of education, “Cultivate people by virtue” is a long-term systematic project through every stage of the education of student party members. Student party members are the most energetic and creative among the party members, and are the main body of thought of the Chinese nation, especially the people of all ethnic groups in the plateau, as they move together towards civilization and progress to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, guide student party members to participate in timely and correct political theory studies, and help them to understand and internalize the party’s ideology and theory, so that their theory and practice can be combined and knowledge and practice can be united. Through effectively enhancing the cohesiveness, striving spirit and sense of historical mission of student party members, improving their service consciousness and comprehensive qualities, and cultivating a sense of overall situation and world vision, a team of student party members with firm political stance, pure political beliefs, strong principles, strict discipline and high cultivation can be built from the source. However, the content of this paper is limited to the results of the questionnaire survey, coupled with the unbalanced development of colleges and universities in different regions, and the ability and quality of student party members are also different to some extent. Based on this, the author will continue to study related contents.
The author declares no conflicts of interest.
Jin, H.X. (2021) Study on Party Spirit Cultivation of College Student Party Members from the Perspective of Strengthening the Moral Education and Cultivating People―Taking Qinghai Normal University as an Example. Open Access Library Journal, 8: e7803. https://doi.org/10.4236/oalib.1107803