College students are in the late adolescence of life, which is a critical period of life. As the frontier group of new technologies and new ideas in society, college students, as senior professionals trained by the state, represent young and energetic people, are the main force of pioneering construction and creation, and are the main group to promote social progress.

University is a period of rapid physical and mental changes for college students, so the university stage is an important stage of life. Judging from the development of emotions, college students are easily excited and have obvious polarization. Compared with middle school students, they have certain emotional adjustment and control ability, but they are unstable compared with adults.

The university stage is an important period of life development, the formation period of life world outlook, outlook on life and values, and the formation, development and maturity period of moral consciousness. The ideological and moral concepts formed in this period have a particularly important impact on people's life.

The course of ideological and moral cultivation and basic law is a compulsory course for college students, which embodies the essential characteristics of socialist universities and plays an irreplaceable role in cultivating builders and successors of socialist cause and shaping college students' thoughts.