Nearly A Decade Of Colleges And Universities To Promote Popularization Of Marxism

The 17th CPC National Congress report in 2007 pointed out that China should"promote the theoretical system of socialism with Chinese characteristics and quicken the pace of the popularization of Marxism today" because the later could decide whether Marxist ideology can hold the dominant position and whether the socialist cause with Chinese characteristics can win new victories.Chinese universities are important places to cultivate qualified builders and successors of the socialist cause with Chinese characteristics.They are also the high ground for the popularization of Marxism.It is in universities that the most fierce competitions among cultures,thoughts and beliefs both home and abroad take place.While communicating,colliding and integrating with each other,they also compete over the dominant position and the young generation.In 2004,the CPC Central Committee issued a circular on further strengthening and improving college ideological and political education(also called Circular No 16),which put forward new requirements and instructions for college ideological and political education.Adhering to and implementing the instructions of Circular No.16,Chinese colleges have kept strengthening and improving their ideological and political education for college students,and have made remarkable progress in popularizing Marxism.Despite this,with the deepening of China's reform and opening up,the dissemination of Marxism has met a lot of obstacles due to the clashes of different cultures,thoughts and beliefs.The complicated national and international situations bring both opportunities and challenges to college ideological and political education.This thesis studies the popularization of Marxism in Chinese universities since the publication of Circular No.16.By analyzing the subjects,contents and approaches of the popularization of Marxism,this thesis explores the achievements Chinese universities have made in the past decade in their efforts of popularizing Marxism from the perspectives of institutional mechanism,team building.and dissemination channels.At the same time,this thesis also deals with the problems existing in the popularization of Marxism in Chinese universities from perspectives of team building,comprehensibility of the contents and effectiveness of the dissemination efforts.Based on that,the thesis further discusses the methods of strengthening the popularization of Marxism in Chinese universities from team building,improving the institutional mechanism,perfecting working methods and integrating traditional media with new media.Finally,the thesis concludes that the new situations and new tasks demand new efforts and practices be made to solve the old problems.To popularize Marxism effectively,it is necessary to strengthen team building,improve institutional mechanism,optimize working methods,and take full advantage of both traditional median new media,Effectively use the combination of traditional media and new media,and further improve the level and effectiveness of the popularization of Marxism in colleges and universities.