On May 9, 2022, QMES Party Committee carried out the first training session for the activists of Partyapplication and the potential members of the Party in Classroom 206 and Classroom 306, West Teaching Building A. The courses aimed at implementing the demands of the Organization Department of the NPU Committee of the CPC in the spring semester of 2022, improving the overall quality of the activists of Party application and the potential members of the Party, prodding them into keeping up with qualified Party members, and ensuring the smooth progress of the fundamental construction of Party branches.

Based on the CPC Constitution, Regulations on the Recruitment of Party Members of the CPC, and Working Procedures for Recruiting Party Members of CPC Shaanxi Provincial Committee (trial), the training comprised 12 sessions, and was conducted in various forms, including classroom teaching, self-study, research and discussion, study on the history of the CPC, tests on theory and so on. The training was to help students to set correct motive of joining the Party, gain a good command of Party’s theories, strengthen Party consciousness and political awareness, establish the life-long pursuit of communist ideals, behave in accordance with the requirements for Party members and closely align themselves with the Central Committee in terms of thinking and action.

The first session was hosted by Dai Fuping, Secretary of QMES Party Committee, who divided the lecture into three parts with reference to Xi Jinping’s requirements and expectations for China’s youth.

At the beginning of the lecture, by quoting Xi’s remark of helping the younger generation button the first button of their lifetime, Dai encouraged young people to hold a down-to-earth attitude, develop lofty aspirations and work hard. Later on, by introducing QMES’ development strategy, talent cultivation mode and the integration of Party construction and ideological and political education work into the whole process of talent training, Dai emphasized the requirements for the students, ranging from mastering professional knowledge to participating in extracurricular activities. In the end, Dai pointed out that activists and the potential members of the Party should stand out in the new era, continue the practice of winning honor for NPU, strength the ability of applying the Party’s theories into practice and act as role models for their peers.

After class, the students expressed that they would emulate excellent Party members, devote themselves to acquiring knowledge and conducting scientific research, serve the people wholeheartedly, contribute their force to the development of QMES as well as NPU and gear up for the 20th National Congress of the CPC.

It was the first time that QMES organized a training for activists and the potential members of the Party since the establishment of QMES Party Committee. The training is instrumental for students in cultivating their long-term firm conviction to communism and the common ideal of building socialism with Chinese characteristics, equip them with in-depth understanding of the Party, and foster students to stay true to their aspiration and mission so that they can join the CPC early.

Text: Yang Yufei

Photo: Hu Miao

Editor: Wu Sijia

Translator: Liu Yang

Review: Dai Fuping & Cheng Yin