"The 'five elders' in Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province, have innovative and bright spots in their ideological and political work, which is worthy of learning from Xi province. A few days ago, at the on-site exchange meeting of the "Five Elders Helping Ideology and Politics" of the Shandong Provincial Education System Working Committee, Huang Zecun, deputy director of the Provincial Customs Working Committee, gave such an evaluation of the work of Zaozhuang City.
In recent years, Zaozhuang City has given full play to the advantages and roles of veteran cadres, veteran soldiers, veteran experts, veteran teachers, and veteran models in the ideological and political work of young people, and has hired more than 1,300 enthusiastic, capable, and specialized expert "five old" personnel to participate in the work of educating people, polishing the "golden business card" of the "five elders" to help ideology and politics and gather strength to educate talents.
In order to promote the "five elders" to help the ideological and political work to go deeper and more practical, the education system of Zaozhuang City, together with the work committees at all levels, implemented the project of "ideological and political curriculum and ideological and political curriculum", and paved the way for the healthy growth of teenagers by carrying out various forms of activities such as "five elders" student care activities, student drowning prevention activities, red spirit and excellent traditional culture into the campus.
Under the organization and coordination of the work committees and education departments at all levels, the "five elders" have actively engaged in the ideological and political work among young people, radiating the city's education system. "I feel very honored to be able to preach to children at school and educate the majority of young people to strengthen their faith and aspire to serve the country. In Tengzhou City, Shandong Province, Lin Qingbai, a volunteer of the "Five Elders" and a retired teacher, often comes to local primary and secondary schools to promote the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China to students.
Ren Shoujing, an advanced individual of national retired cadres and an advanced worker who cares for the next generation of work in the province, often goes deep into primary and secondary schools to carry out lectures on inheriting red genes and Moxue culture, etc., to encourage young people to listen to the party and follow the party.
On the first day of school in the fall semester this year, "Five Elders" volunteers Wang Jinguo, Yang Yiping, Chu Qian and others walked into various schools in Shizhong District, Zaozhuang City, telling red stories to students and lighting up the "first lesson of school" for teenagers. Over the years, he has been in a wheelchair and has gone deep into schools and factories and mines to give hundreds of special education lectures and reports on the inheritance of red genes.
In the process of educating people, the "five elders" have achieved the "four ones" in "caring for the next generation and gathering strength to educate talents": a common goal, that is, to jointly implement the fundamental task of cultivating morality, implementing the whole environment to cultivate morality, and cultivating socialist builders and people with all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and laborShare a team, that is, to jointly build an effective working team of the working committee, from the city's "five old" personnel selected more than 200 people as an "expert talent pool", set up a number of "five old propaganda group", "five old guidance group", "five old care group" and other groups, do activities at any time contact appointment;Jointly build a mechanism, that is, jointly establish the work of the working committee of the "joint meeting", "joint activities", "brand joint creation" and other institutional mechanisms;Draw a picture together, that is, jointly write a new chapter of educating people for the party and the country.
At present, Zaozhuang City has established 24 provincial-level education bases for the next generation, 52 municipal-level bases, and more than 60 "five old" studios with red gene inheritance, traditional cultural education, science popularization, and rule of law. With the help of the "five elders" to help ideological and political work, the Municipal Customs Working Committee and the Municipal Education Bureau have comprehensively promoted the construction of "ideological and political curriculum" and "ideological and political curriculum" in primary and secondary schools, continuously implemented the fundamental task of establishing morality and cultivating people, and cultivated good ideology and morality among young people.
China Education Daily, December 11, 2023, page 3
Author: Special correspondent Hu Lebiao.