General Secretary Xi Jinping recently wrote a letter of encouragement to the Young Pioneer red scarf docents at the Memorial of the First National Congress of the CPC and the Nanhu Revolutionary Memorial Museum, emphasizing the inheritance of the revolutionary red gene to grow in knowledge and abilities, and to run well the historical relay race on the new journey. Attaching great importance to ideals and convictions education for youth, guiding them to carry forward the red bloodline and cultivate deep emotions of love for the Party, the nation, and socialism, is a consistently upheld fine tradition of our Party. The key to strengthening ideals and convictions education for youth is to use Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to mold and educate them. In education and teaching work, those who work on ideological and political education should deeply comprehend and accurately grasp the requirements of the "eight unifications," follow the laws of students' growth and of education and teaching work, safeguard the primary channel and main position of ideological and political courses, and build a comprehensive, full-process, and all-inclusive talent cultivation system by integrating across academic stages, across disciplines, and with society.

Integrating across academic stages means promoting the integrated building of ideological and political courses across universities, secondary schools, and primary schools, following the principle of gradual and spiraling progression, using ideals and convictions as the core thread, achieving seamless alignment of goals, content, and methods across academic stages, and ensuring continuity and progressive depth of educational outcomes. The primary school stage focuses on emotional enlightenment, using experiential, game-based, and other teaching methods, and cultivating elementary patriotic sentiments and national identity through role-playing, storytelling, and similar activities. The junior high school stage focuses on deepening cognition, using case analysis, interactive discussion, and other methods to guide students to actively think and distinguish right from wrong, appreciate institutional advantages, and build a solid foundation of convictions. The senior high school stage focuses on mission and responsibility, carrying out inquiry-based and project-based learning, encouraging students to independently explore and apply their learning through social surveys and current affairs analysis, guiding students to integrate their personal growth into national development, and strengthening their ideals and convictions and sense of responsibility. The High School Affiliated with Renmin University of China transforms Renmin University of China's distinctive red gene into educational motivation, drawing on the university's quality resources to carry out integrated teaching and research, and polishing a batch of ideological and political "gold lessons." For example, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, university, affiliated high school, and affiliated primary school ideological and political course teachers jointly taught an ideological and political lesson centered on "one school," "one book," "one letter," and "one song," guiding students to draw advancing strength from the red gene and achieving comprehensive coverage across academic stages and full spiritual inheritance of ideals and convictions education.

Integrating across disciplines means achieving the same direction and pace of "ideological and political courses" and "curriculum-based ideological and political education," building an all-environment talent cultivation mechanism, mining ideological and political educational resources across all types of disciplines, and gathering comprehensive cultivation synergy. In terms of content supply, humanities and history disciplines can draw on classical texts and historical events to strengthen value guidance and anchor the ideal of serving the nation; natural science disciplines can draw on scientists' stories of struggle to cultivate scientific spirit and establish the conviction to serve the nation through science and technology; arts and physical education disciplines can use aesthetic education and athletic training to temper willpower and character, strengthen the ideological foundation, and promote well-rounded development. In terms of teaching forms, actively carry out cross-disciplinary teaching, guiding students to conduct inquiries on real topics such as the inheritance of traditional culture, community governance, and national security, integrating resources from politics, Chinese language, geography, biology, information technology, and other disciplines to build modular "ideological and political + discipline" courses. In terms of mechanism building, improve the cross-disciplinary collaborative teaching and research mechanism, organize teachers from different disciplines to engage in collective lesson preparation and discussion, and converge on a shared educational vision. Encourage teachers to create integrated cultivation classrooms, such as deeply integrating ideological and political education with AI general education, guiding students to dialectically think about the ethical challenges, social governance changes, and national security impacts brought by AI technology in the study of natural science, technology, and other courses, establishing the concept of "human-centered" and "AI for good," and cultivating comprehensive competencies of rational self-discipline and a sense of responsibility.

Connecting with society means promoting the effective integration of the classroom and social practice, drawing on social resources and practical settings to guide students to feel the mission and responsibility of youth through the unity of knowledge and action. Social resources should be mined to enrich the educational platforms. Revolutionary sites, memorial halls, and martyrs' cemeteries can serve as practical bases to organize young students to pay tribute to martyrs, listen to revolutionary stories, and carry forward the red bloodline. Museums, cultural centers, and historical monuments can be used to guide students to appreciate the charm of China's outstanding traditional culture, revolutionary culture, and advanced socialist culture, and to strengthen national pride. Students can be led to visit science museums, laboratories, or science and technology enterprise exhibition halls to learn about the cutting-edge developments in AI, aerospace, and other fields and to feel the vivid practice of the Party's innovative theories on Chinese soil. Cooperation with courts, procuratorates, tax bureaus, and other organizations can be strengthened through activities such as mock trials, rule-of-law lectures, and legal education campaigns to enhance young students' awareness of the rule of law and guide them to respect, study, abide by, and use the law. Practice platforms should be built to innovate activity formats. Ceremonies for leaving the Young Pioneers and joining the Communist Youth League, and student Party lessons and teaching activities, can be moved into Party history museums; at the key junctures of students joining the Young Pioneers, the Communist Youth League, and the Communist Party, they can review their initial vows and be determined to listen to the Party and always follow the Party. Social surveys, volunteer service, and other activities can be combined with disciplinary teaching; practical positions can be provided in conjunction with communities, enterprises, and research institutions, allowing students to cultivate a sense of responsibility and duty in serving society and understanding national and social conditions. Through simulated political consultation, community deliberation, and other activities, students can be guided to pay attention to social well-being and participate in public affairs, deeply appreciate the advantages of China's socialist system, and establish the ideal of dedicating themselves to the nation.

Strengthening ideals and convictions education among youth through ideological and political courses is a systematic endeavor. Integration across academic stages is the foundation, ensuring the continuity of education. Integration across disciplines is the support, expanding the coverage of education. Connection with society is the key, enhancing the practicality of education. Only by adhering to systematic thinking and advancing in a coordinated manner can the effectiveness of education be continuously improved, providing a solid guarantee for cultivating a new generation capable of shouldering the great responsibility of national rejuvenation.