Abstract

College students are precious national human resources. They are the hope of the nation and the future of our moth-erland. Their ideal faith situations, and whether they can become qualified builders and reliable successors to the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics determine the future of our Party and long-teen national stability, and they also decide the realization of the grand goal, i.e. compre-hensive construction of an affluent society and the great revival of the Chinese nation. The CPC central committee and the state council issued the opinion on further strengthening and improving university students’ thought and political education, which pointed out that the task of strengthening and improving college students’ ideological and political education should make “ideality and faith education as the core”, “carry out the history education of the Chinese revo-lution construction and the reform and open policy”, “impart a correct understanding of the law of social development to college students, as well as their social responsibility and the density of our country, and establish road of socialism with Chinese characteristics and realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation common ideals and firm beliefs under the leadership of the communist party.” As the builders and successors of the socialist cause, contemporary college stu-dents must have high ideals and firm beliefs. Therefore, the ideal and belief education for college students is very im-portant and urgent. How to snake ideal and belief education more pertinent and effective needs our careful analysis, re-search and solution. Red resources are the witness of history, and the inheritance and development of the spirit of the Chinese nation, and also the concentration of fine tradition and revolutionary spirit of the party. With the fast develop-ment of various aspects such as politics, economy and cul-ture, how to give full play to the advantages of Red resources, and actively explore the new content, new method and new ways of the college students’ ideological and political edu-cation bear important theoretical and practical values in guiding students to set up the scientific ideal faith, to con-solidate the construction of socialism with Chinese charac-teristics and the common ideal and the lofty ideal of com-munism, and to improve the quality of personnel training. Based on the college students’ practical ideology, beginning with clarifying the concepts of ideal faith education and Red resources, this paper analyzes the basic requirements of using Red resources to enhance students' ideal and belief education and explore the establishment of stable education base and the specific path of improving the corresponding guarantee mechanism through revealing the effects of Red culture on college students’ ideal and belief education process in leading education direction, enriching education content and ex-panding way of education.