Tsinghua University recently held a conference to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the "double-shouldered" political tutor system. More than 1,600 people, including outstanding counselors and alumni representatives of the school, heads of relevant departments and departments, all school counselors, and class teacher representatives, gathered together to carry forward the tradition, look forward to the future, and promote the work of Tsinghua University counselors to a new height.
Tsinghua University's "double-shouldered" political tutor system was established in 1953. At that time, faced with the rapid increase in the number of students and the serious shortage of cadres engaged in ideological and political work, Jiang Nanxiang, then president, creatively proposed to select party members with good academic Xi grades and high consciousness to serve as tutors and "semi-full-time" to do ideological and political work, and gradually cultivate an ideological and political work contingent that is popular and professional and can "shoulder the burden on two shoulders." Over the past 70 years, the team of "shoulder-to-shoulder" political counselors has continued to grow and develop, and has accumulated nearly 110,000 people have served as Tsinghua counselors. A large number of outstanding talents with both ability and political integrity have grown up from this team and have become leaders and backbones in all walks of life.
Weng Tiehui, member of the party group and vice minister of the Ministry of Education, said in his speech that practice has proved that the establishment and development of the "double-shouldered" political counselor system has played an important role in promoting Tsinghua University and even colleges and universities across the country to cultivate generations of socialist builders and people with Chinese characteristics, and has also given birth to batches of political counselors to grow into outstanding leading cadres and outstanding experts and scholars. It is hoped that Tsinghua University will inherit the educator spirit and doer style of Comrade Jiang Nanxiang, make good use of the successful experience of the "double-shouldered" political counselor system, keep integrity and innovation, keep in mind the original mission of educating people for the party and the country in the new era, and make unremitting efforts to continue to cultivate generation after generation of new people who are worthy of great responsibilities.
In his speech, Qiu Yong, Secretary of the Party Committee of Tsinghua University, reviewed the 70-year glorious history of Tsinghua's "double-shouldered" political counselor system. He pointed out that the counselor system has become a very distinctive and extremely important institutional arrangement of Tsinghua University, and is an indispensable and important part of Tsinghua's tradition of educating people. In the future, the school will, as always, care about and support the construction of the counselor team, support the growth of the counselors themselves, effectively help the counselors solve specific difficulties and problems in work and Xi, and expand a broader growth space for the counselors. It is hoped that the counselors of the whole school will learn and understand thoroughly and make good use of Marxism as a housekeeping skill, and strengthen the ideological and political guidance of studentsIn accordance with the work standard of "comprehensive coverage, no one is left behind", let care, education and guidance touch every student;Accurately grasp the characteristics of students in the Internet era, and improve the ability of online ideological and political work;Enhance the ability of "two shoulders to carry the burden", and strengthen the demonstration and leading role of red, professional and all-round development.
Over the past 70 years, Tsinghua University's "double-shouldered" political counselor system has played the main tone of "red and specialized, all-round development" and "educating people and cultivating themselves, and continuing to inherit". With the theme of "Looking Back on the Past and Starting a New Journey", the conference invited representatives of the old, middle and new generations of counselors to share their experiences as political counselors through three chapters: "Seventy Years of Inheritance", "Story of Struggle" and "Relay of Youth". Commendations were also given at the meeting. Tsinghua University's counselor honor system includes "Jiang Nanxiang Counselor Award", "Lin Feng Counselor Award", "12.9 Counselor Award", "12.9 Counselor Guo Mingqiu Award", etc.
Text: Beijing Youth Daily reporter Lei Jia.
Edited by Ye Wan.