The working principle of league member education is: "enthusiastic care and strict requirements." "Enthusiastic care" means to fully trust and care for the League members, adhere to positive education, improve their ideological and political quality through positive guidance, theoretical indoctrination and typical encouragement, fully mobilize their enthusiasm and creativity in their own work, collective life and social life, play an exemplary role, and create conditions for their healthy growth. "Strict requirements" means to regulate and restrain the words and deeds of members with the standards of members and the discipline of the league, and put forward higher requirements for members than ordinary young people. At the same time, adhere to serious criticism and self-criticism, strictly enforce the discipline of the League, so that members can get exercise and grow up healthily in the strict life of the League.
The basic goal of League members' education is to enhance their awareness, that is, to enhance their political awareness of adhering to the Party's basic line, to enhance their democratic awareness of correctly participating in the management and supervision of the society, to enhance their awareness of equality and consistency of rights and obligations, and to enhance their awareness of the rule of law in observing social, economic, political and social life, which is higher than the exemplary awareness of ordinary young people. Special attention should be paid to enhancing the political awareness and model awareness of the League members.
According to the requirements of the basic objectives of League member education, the main contents of League member education are:
(1) Marxism-Leninism, Education in Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, Theory of Three Represents and Scientific Outlook on Development. To enable members to learn and master the basic positions, viewpoints and methods of Marxism-Leninism and establish a correct world outlook.
(2) The Party's basic line education. On the basis of understanding the national conditions, members will deepen their understanding of "one center and two basic points", actively participate in reform and opening up, and contribute to the construction of Socialism with Chinese characteristics.
(3) Basic knowledge education of the Communist Youth League. Make the members understand the history and fine traditions of the group, clarify the obligations and rights of the members, and consciously play an exemplary role.
(4) Socialist moral education. Let the league members take the lead in observing the socialist moral standards, establish the socialist core values, resist all kinds of corruption, change customs, get rid of superstitions, and play an exemplary role in the construction of socialist spiritual civilization.
(5) Socialist democracy and legal education. Make members learn and master the basic knowledge of socialist democracy and legal system, and consciously abide by the law. Participate in the internal management and social supervision of the group according to the principle of democratic centralism and normal democratic procedures.