The goal of college students' ideological and political work is "four improvements", that is, to improve their ideological level, political consciousness, moral quality and cultural accomplishment. The breakthrough point of students' ideological and political work is "four correct understandings", that is, education guides students to correctly understand the development trend of the world and China, China's characteristics and international comparison, the responsibility and historical mission of the times, lofty aspirations and down-to-earth work. Students' ideological and political work should follow "three laws", namely, the law of ideological and political work, the law of teaching and educating people and the law of students' growth.
The goal of ideological and political work for college students depends on the nature of Socialism with Chinese characteristics University and the foundation of Lide Shu Ren University. However, the choice of the entry point and the compliance with the law have an inherent unified relationship with the realization of the goal, that is, the choice of the entry point determines the possibility of achieving the goal, while the compliance with the law provides the correct way from the entry point to the realization of the goal. Therefore, grasping the breakthrough point of college students' ideological and political work is of great significance to effectively realize the goal of ideological and political work. The breakthrough point of "four correct understandings" put forward by the national conference on ideological and political work in colleges and universities is the persistence and development of the historical experience of ideological and political work of China's * * * production party.
In the breakthrough point of students' ideological and political work, education guides students to correctly understand the development trend of the world and China, which is the core of "four correct understandings". Because a correct understanding of the overall situation of contemporary China and a grasp of the future development trend require two coordinates: one is the ordinate from history to reality, which reflects the historical logic of China's social development, that is, China was able to choose the Socialism with Chinese characteristics road and succeed, but there are still many difficulties and contradictions today. What are its historical reasons? Secondly, it is the abscissa of the relationship between China and the world, that is, what historical changes have taken place in the relationship between China and the world over the past 30 years of reform and opening up? The establishment and intersection of these two coordinates need to introduce a second "correct understanding", that is, "China characteristics and international comparison". With these two "correct understandings", it is possible to guide college students to turn "the responsibility of the times and the mission of history" into their inner consciousness and their lofty aspirations into practical actions.
Only by starting with "four correct understandings" can the ideological and political work of college students truly achieve the goal of "continuously improving students' ideological level, political consciousness, moral quality and cultural accomplishment". Because to help college students correctly understand the overall situation of contemporary China and grasp the future development trend, it is necessary to provide a scientific world outlook and methodology, including dialectical theoretical thinking and scientific value orientation, which can effectively improve the ideological level of college students; In order to truly realize Socialism with Chinese characteristics's political consciousness of "four identities" of road, theory, system and culture, college students should lay a good rational foundation, not only to overcome self-esteem and self-distrust, but also to avoid the tendency of blind self-confidence, which is also a correct understanding of contemporary China and the world. The cultivation of college students' moral quality and the promotion of their cultural accomplishment need to integrate the relationship between contemporary China and the world, which also requires college students to correctly understand the development trend of the world and China.
Taking the "four correct understandings" of correctly understanding the world and the development trend of China as the breakthrough point of college students' ideological and political work, it not only follows the law of ideological and political work, but also follows the law of teaching and educating people and the law of students' growth. Because it not only meets the ideological needs of the party and the country for college students to become talents, but also meets the needs and expectations of students' growth and development, thus truly enhancing the affinity and pertinence of ideological and political education. In the tide of socialist market economy and economic globalization, college students have their own ideals of success and career, but this tide has also brought about the diversification of thinking modes and values. How to find a correct position for yourself, so as to set up the ideal of becoming a talent and career, and find the correct way to realize the ideal, requires a correct understanding of the development trend of the world and China, and the ideological and political work in this respect starts from this aspect, trying to find a meeting point between the ideological needs of the party and the country and the needs of college students to become talents.
In recent years, the reform of ideological and political theory course in Shanghai Jiaotong University has made a major breakthrough in the course of situation and policy, that is, the course system of situation and policy with the core concept of "understanding China" has been constructed. This not only opens up the "ideological and political course" and "curriculum ideological and political", but also integrates the laws of ideological and political work, teaching and educating people and student growth. The spirit of the national conference on ideological and political work in colleges and universities puts forward new tasks and requirements for ideological and political theory courses in colleges and universities, that is, how to help college students "have four correct understandings", especially the correct understanding of the development trend of the world and China.