Ideological and political education means that a society or a social group exerts targeted, accidental and organized influence on its members with certain ideological concepts, political views and moral categories, so as to form social practice activities that meet certain social requirements. This is the idea of ideological and political education. 1847, Marx and Engels put forward "propaganda work" when they wrote the articles of association for the Communist League, the first proletarian party in the world. This is the origin of it.

The characteristics of ideological and political education are:

Class nature: Because ideological and political education belongs to the conceptual superstructure and is consistent with the economic foundation, its content and theory must reflect the fundamental interests of the class, so it has a distinct class nature. In socialist countries, it serves the people and represents their interests.

Practicality: because the education process is actually a practical process, and it focuses on educating people, helping people to establish a correct world outlook, outlook on life and values, and improving people's ideological and moral quality.

Educational: Ideological and political education means that educators exert educational influence on the educated, internalizing social, political and moral requirements into the emotions and consciousness of the educated, and then becoming the behavior of the educated, internalizing in thought and externalizing in action.

Comprehensiveness: This feature lies in its education and research on people's thoughts, morality, political views and moral norms. Its purpose is to cultivate people with all-round development, make people move from the inevitable realm to the free realm, and enhance their spiritual realm.