Education is both social and epochal, and it is a practical activity for national development. Ideological and political education has been assigned new tasks as history progresses. The Party and the state have always paid close attention to and attached great importance to ideological and political education in colleges and universities. Since 1980, a series of documents concerning ideological and political education in colleges and universities have been issued successively.

The successive introduction and issuance of numerous series of policies, documents and speeches have provided theoretical basis and supporting materials for ideological and political education in colleges and universities, and pointed out the direction for their further development. This not only fully demonstrates the high attention paid by the Party and the state to ideological and political education in colleges and universities, but also reflects from the side the irreplaceability of ideological and political education in colleges and universities. It also indicates that ideological and political education in colleges and universities will gradually improve and grow with the development of the times, and has distinct contemporaneity.