【Reporter's Investigation】 "Throughout the entire lecture, everyone listened to me attentively and watched my PowerPoint presentation." Although the summer lecture last year has passed, Huang Na, a member of the Xi Jinping Rule of Law Thought Lecture Group at the University of Chinese Political Science and Law and a graduate student in criminal justice in the class of 2024, still feels extremely proud when she recalls the lecture she gave in Zaw Township, Hotan District, Xinjiang.

During this year's winter vacation, many members of university theory propaganda teams, like Huang Na, have already packed their bags and "moved" podiums to various places across the motherland. This kind of holiday practice, which "promotes learning through speaking and action through learning," not only enriches the spiritual of university students but has also become an innovative exploration of ideological and political education in the new era. Facing different age groups and different identities of the audience, university students achieve own growth in the practice of propaganda time and time again. 

Spiritual resonance: completing an effective ideological arrival "Listening to the teacher ten times is not as good as the students speaking for themselves," said Li Tianzi, the instructor of the Dream Building Society Lecture Group of the School of Marxism at Xi'an Jiaotong University, who the inherent logic of lecture education. Shi Yifan, a member of the Dream Building Society Lecture Group and a 2025 graduate student in the School of Marx, specifically went to the Western Migration Museum for immersive learning to prepare for a lecture on "Inheriting the Spirit of Western Migration." Looking at the old train tickets and yellowing handwritten lesson plans, she was deeply touched. "Imagining the determination and hardships of the older students and predecessors of Xi'an Jiaotong University were about my age when they started their business in the west, history became vivid through the words in the books." Shi Yifan integrated her feelings into the lecture manuscript, got a different feedback: "At the end of the lecture, the focused gaze and thunderous applause of the students in the audience made me sure that we had completed a youth dialogue spiritual resonance across decades."

The "deep mining," "transformation," "design," "polishing," and "practice" before the lecture are all steps. Shi Yifan said, "In order for the audience to understand, I must first thoroughly comprehend it myself. This forces me to deeply explore the historical context and foundation of the theory, achieving a leap from 'memory' to 'internalization.' True expression lies not in the choice of words, but in achieving an effective transmission of thought" Having depth of knowledge is not enough; what truly brings the lecture to life is a re-understanding of the nature of communication. After numerous rounds of polishing lecturing, Gao Wangbin, a member of the Dream Building Society Lecture Group and a freshman majoring in Marxism in 2022, realized that lectures be a two-way, dynamic interaction. Only by transforming abstract theories and grand narratives into tangible emotional experiences, and blending "the ideals of revolution," "the memories of history" and "the spirit of the times" together, can the lecture be more effective if it is systematic, has content to look at, and emotions to feel.

When preparing for the anti-telecom fraud lecture at Rongcheng Primary School in Xiong'an New Area, Hu Na's lecture content was clearly pointed out by the instructor: the case part was not vivid enough, and there were few interactive segments, making it difficult to capture the attention of school students. She immediately re-screened the material, added a large number of real cases that were close to the primary school group, and set up segments such as "active Q&A" and "Class Quiz" to transform students from passive listeners to active participants, ultimately earning widespread recognition from the students. Beijing Normal University' Qiusuo Society Lecture Group Leader, Jiang Hongyan, a 2024 graduate student from the Department of Marxism, also felt the same. Initially, believed that the key to a lecture was to "explain clearly and thoroughly," focusing on systematicness and logic. However, after a series of lectures aimed at different groups, had different thoughts. Jiang Hongyan encountered a special "accident" when she first joined the lecture group: a lecture due to communication deviation had only one freshman in, and could not use multimedia equipment due to the lack of a reserved classroom. Faced with the choice of "talk or not," she borrowed an empty classroom from the college completed this "one-on-one" heart-to-heart conversation with the help of a simple projector. "This kind of response to the sincere needs of the students is spirit of 'emotional lecturing' that every lecturer should have."

Decoding the era: explaining grand policies in simple terms How to break the "sense of alienation" in the dissemination of theories a topic that members of the propaganda group have been exploring. The propaganda group on Xi Jinping's legal thought at the University of Chinese Political Science and Law deft breaks down grand topics about the rule of law in the country into vivid life cases. Instead of droning on about legal provisions in the community pavilions and village squares the propagandists target the most practical topics that the elderly care about, such as support and inheritance distribution, and turn the "Law on the Protection of the Rights and Intere of the Elderly" into heartfelt words between neighbors, using local cases that closely relate to the elderly's own rights and interests.

Bai Yina, the head of the Department of Ideological Education of the Student Affairs Office of the University of Chinese Political Science and, said that in terms of the content of the lectures, the lecture group has both thematic content aimed at the growth of primary and secondary school students and national security theme lectures effectively enhance students' ability to deal with risks abroad, as well as legal interpretations focused on the needs of community members. "The lecture group uses interactive forms such as mock courts to the sense of participation, given the active and lively habits of primary and secondary school students; and uses practical forms such as special lectures and legal publicity to meet the needs of community members employees of enterprises and institutions, and to enhance the effectiveness of the lectures." The lecture group of the Qiusuo Society of Beijing Normal University enhances the effectiveness of the by fully playing the professional advantages of the Marxist theory discipline. The instructor, Gao Chao, said that they have built a platform to transform professional knowledge into dissemination and application, so that the Party's innovative theory can be implemented in a way that young people can understand and are willing to listen to. In practice, the lecture group rejectste recitation, and the teachers closely combine real concerns such as academic development, employment choices, and social responsibility to explain, so that grand narratives can respond to the "real issues that young people may encounter in their growth process. At the same time, they bring the lecture group of college students to deeply explore the red resources of the school history, and integrate character deeds and example stories around them into the lecture, to move people with emotion and to clarify reasons with events, guiding college students from "whether to explain clearly" to "how explain thoroughly and vividly", and to achieve value guidance in the ordinary details.

The publicity practice of Xi'an Jiaotong University provides us with another path - to transcend time and space and have a dialogue with contemporary youth. the summer of 2025, Li Xiankat, the leader of the publicity group of the Dream Building Society and a graduate student of the 202 academic year, packed his bags and brought the "spirit of the westward migration" to the Tibet Lhasa Ali Senior High School.

Faced with the group of teenagers growing up on the snowy plateau, he did not choose to lay out a grand narrative of history, but cleverly linked the "spirit of the western migration" with the "spirit of the old Tibetans". The students on the plateau described their joy at the completion of highway in their hometown with simple language - "To study well, to study good books, to repay the motherland and to serve the people is my way of the western migration" The voice of a Tibetan boy touched Li Xiankat: "When abstract theories find concrete practice points, they complete a qualitative change from cognition to recognition. I truly the power of theory rooted in the heart, and also firm up my original intention to convey the truth through stories." Li Tianzi introduced that the Dream Building Societyure Group fits the personality characteristics of the audience, designs subdivided lecture forms according to the cognitive habits and acceptance ways of different grades, different majors and different groups, avoids " size fits all", and achieves "precision drip irrigation"; At the same time, it adapts to the characteristics of the times dissemination, and forms an online and offline network.

Two-way journey: Achieving the best possible effect of propaganda through institutional innovation From the initial stiffness and restraint on stage, to the ease and grace, Huang Na has grown rapidly in a series of live propaganda, she said: "Whether it is facing college students, grassroots masses, or minors, now I deal with all kinds of propaganda scenarios calmly, and flexibly adjust the propaganda ideas, optimize the content focus and expression rhythm according to the different cognitive levels and needs of different, to achieve the best possible effect of propaganda." "In the process of going to the grassroots level and serving the society, college students have deeply realized the importance of construction, and established the mission of 'safeguarding social development with law'." Speaking of the changes of the members of the propaganda team, Po Yina is very, "Propaganda has accumulated valuable practical experience for their future work in legal affairs and service to the country and society."

"Because of true belief, we spoke out the warmth." Jiang Hongyan still remembers that after a lecture, the-party members not only did not disperse, but also spontaneously organized a "funny answer to the history of the party" activity, transforming the previous theoretical learning into collective. "It turns out that theoretical lectures can really 'come alive' and 'heat up'." Jiang Hongyan sighed, this sense of satisfaction of stimulating others' thinking leading collective learning through her own narration made her more determined to continue to work hard on the road of theoretical dissemination. In fact, these warm moments of "mut pursuit" are not accidental sparks, but inevitable results under the protection of the system. In recent years, many universities have been building a closed ecological system of "big ideological and courses" through institutional innovation. Xi'an Jiaotong University regards theoretical lectures as an important part of practical teaching, specially allocating funds to support the planning of research projects as "The Spiritual System of the Chinese Communists" and "Tracing the Revolutionary History and Inheriting the Red Gene", and relying on the school and college twolevel platforms, to form a multi-functional physical space support system covering video recording, lesson preparation and discussion, etc., so that the "walking classroom" has sufficient guarantee. China University of Political Science and Law has established an organizational structure of "general group coordination and sub-group implementation", integrated the professional resources and disciplinary advantages of various colleges the school, and formed a collaborative education network. Beijing Normal University has included the construction of the lecture group in the overall planning of ideological and political education and talent training for college students established a professional guidance team composed of ideological and political teachers, party and government cadres, and peer groups, regularly carry out collective lesson preparation, special training, content review and exercises, and incorporated the performance of lectures into the comprehensive quality evaluation, reward and commendation, and practice credit recognition system of students.

The deep care of institutional design always responds to the fundamental question of "what kind of people to train, how to train people, and for whom to train". Li Tianzi believes that college students' participation in theoretical propaganda can more profoundly experience the mission of the times and the responsibility of youth, establish the ambition of "doing things", and also help the majority of young students to button up the first button of life, and anchor the correct direction for the growth and success of youth. (Liuxin Agency)