Deeply understand and grasp the scientific essence of strengthening comprehensive quality

　　Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee, with the Supreme Leader as the core, has assessed the situation, made the strategic design and major deployment of building an educational power from the strategic height of adhering to and developing Socialism with Chinese characteristics, and made a systematic and profound response to the major educational practice topic of "who to train, how to train people and for whom" closely around the main theme of the era of "giving priority to the development of education", and put forward the general goal of "educating people by virtue". Strengthening the comprehensive quality of college students in the new era is an important content to achieve this goal. Revealing its internal meaning is of great theoretical value and practical significance for profoundly understanding and grasping the scientific essence of strengthening the comprehensive quality of college students in the new era and taking root in ideological and political education.

　　First, the connotation of comprehensive quality

　　Comprehensive quality is an open and integrated organic concept system, which is composed of various groups and covers multiple dimensions. The well-known "barrel effect" fully demonstrates the scientificity, rationality and key of a person’s comprehensive quality. For example, the comprehensive qualities we need for socialist builders and successors include five dimensions, such as "moral, intellectual, physical and artistic work". Specifically, the connotation of college students’ comprehensive quality can be answered in the following aspects:

　　First, knowledge, insight and thinking ability. Comprehensive quality is a systematic ability structure, and the accumulation of knowledge and the deepening and expansion of knowledge are one of the basic elements of comprehensive quality. Only when a person reaches a certain amount of knowledge reserve can he further broaden his horizons and increase his knowledge. Knowledge and thinking ability are an interlocking development process, and they complement each other, promote each other and enhance each other. The increase of knowledge and insight contributes to the improvement of thinking ability, and thinking ability refers to our ability to analyze and solve problems through the knowledge we have learned and the ability to recognize the essence of things. In fact, compared with the accumulation of knowledge, it is more important to learn to use what you have learned to solve practical problems in life. Because in the development and progress of society, it is often "not our talents, but how we use them" that plays a key role.

　　Second, personality development and physical and mental health. Personality development and physical and mental health are also very important elements. While pursuing personalized development, everyone must also ensure physical and mental health. Only the coordinated development of personality development and physical and mental health can be called real development.

　　Third, moral cultivation and personality perfection. As the saying goes, "People can’t stand without virtue". Morality and self-cultivation are the first compulsory courses in life that each of us can’t avoid in the process of growth and success. Moral cultivation and personality perfection are irreplaceable elements in the comprehensive quality and ability structure. As far as personality is concerned, it originated from ancient Greek, and it is also a holistic concept composed of many components, mainly including two parts: personality and temperament. Personality has the characteristics of uniqueness, stability, integration and functionality, and the integrity and health of personality play a vital role in a person’s growth. Although stability is a major feature of personality, it is worth our attention that personality is also an integrated concept in which stability and plasticity coexist.

　　Second, the analysis of the problems existing in comprehensive quality

　　In recent years, with the expansion of higher education enrollment, our country has become a big educational country with "the largest educational system in the world". However, "after the rapid expansion of quantity, the contradiction of quality improvement has become more and more prominent". With the great increase of the number of educated people, the improvement of the quality of education is troubled. How to break through the bottleneck of quality improvement has become a point that must be paid attention to in realizing the value of ideological and political education in colleges and universities in the new era. Tracing back to the source, the imbalance of college students’ comprehensive quality is mainly reflected in the following aspects:

　　(A) the imbalance between knowledge accumulation and thinking training

　　In the past, for a long time, the educational philosophy of colleges and universities attached more importance to knowledge learning than quality education, and the accumulation of knowledge was highly valued, but the training of thinking ability matched with it was ignored. Therefore, in daily life, we can easily find the phenomenon of "high scores and low abilities". Some college students have rich knowledge reserves, but their thinking ability is weak, and the helplessness of following the map occurs from time to time, and their innovative thinking ability needs to be improved.

　　(B) the imbalance between personality development and physical and mental health

　　With the development of the times, the development of "intelligence" among the requirements of "all-round development of morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor" put forward by college students has been widely concerned, but the attention of physical education, aesthetic education and labor education is far less than that of intellectual education. Robot programming, Olympic Mathematics, English and so on are widely welcomed, but few people care about strengthening physical exercise, enhancing physical and mental health and improving hands-on ability through labor. The imbalance between personality development and physical and mental health really deserves our attention.

　　(C) the imbalance between professional progress and personality shaping

　　"Personality is the concentrated expression of a person’s spiritual cultivation", and the shaping of personality plays a positive role in the healthy growth of college students. However, in real life, there is no balance between professional progress and personality shaping. We can see that vicious cases of imbalance between professional progress and personality shaping occur from time to time. Based on this, the scientific and necessary existence of ideological and political education in colleges and universities in the new era is highlighted by strengthening the comprehensive quality dimension.

　　Third, the components of enhancing comprehensive quality

　　(A) to cultivate innovative thinking

　　The emergence and maintenance of innovative thinking is a long, complex and changeable systematic and three-dimensional interactive logical process; It is also a dynamic network system, including putting forward the question — — Problem analysis — — New solution to the problem — — Verify the effectiveness of the four links and steps. There is a complex dialectical logical relationship among the influencing and restricting factors such as the motivation, conditions, mechanism, realization mode and thinking result of innovative thinking. The emergence of innovative thinking needs to be based on rich knowledge accumulation, open a broad perspective, boldly go beyond the convention, and stimulate new ideas, new inspirations and new methods to solve problems. Cultivating the innovative thinking of young college students can be comprehensively explored through multiple dimensions. First of all, avoid fixed thinking. The stalemate and solidification of thinking is the main obstacle on the road to innovation, and it is necessary to activate more creative thinking dimensions (inspiration, intuition and imagination). Second, create a good atmosphere for innovation. Build a broad stage for innovation, find a relaxed innovation environment to support and encourage everyone to participate in innovation. Finally, stimulate college students’ enthusiasm for innovation. "Enthusiasm is a great driving force", which inspires college students’ innovative courage and switches "I can’t" to "I believe I can" mode. "Only those who have real interest and enthusiasm will succeed",The reasons are divided into two aspects. On the one hand, having enthusiasm is a very valuable motivation, which can give us unlimited innovation and the possibility of participating in challenges. On the other hand, "enthusiasm is infectious, and it is the best guarantee to prevent depression."

　　(B) establish the concept of health first

　　Health problems are of extraordinary significance to the sustainable development, generation after generation and endless life of human civilization. People’s health is an important symbol of national prosperity and national prosperity, and people’s definition and understanding of health has its distinct imprint of the times. Today in the 21st century, people’s discussion on health issues is no longer confined to "normal functioning of the body", but has advanced from the material field to the spiritual and social level. This ancient topic has been given more and more meanings in the new era. Health is an open concept system, which needs to be understood and grasped through multiple dimensions. Strong physique, healthy psychology and so on are all multidimensional health goals that we can pursue. From the issuance of the first Decision on Improving the Health Status of School Students at All Levels in 1951 to the Outline of Healthy China 2030 in 2016, and then to the promulgation and implementation of Healthy China Action (2019-2030) in 2019, the concept of "health first" has gradually taken root in people’s hearts, not just an idea on paper or in documents. "Idea is the forerunner of action", and what kind of idea will lead to what kind of behavior. In the new era, college students should adhere to the concept of "health first", strengthen physical exercise and enjoy fun in sports.Enhance physique, strengthen physique and temper will; Maintain both self-cultivation and self-cultivation, maintain mental health, improve personality and add personal charm.

　　(C) improve the aesthetic quality

　　Socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era, and the development of literature and art is an indispensable link in the cause of socialist construction. People are full of beautiful dreams and longings for a beautiful personality, a beautiful life and a beautiful society. It is everyone’s common aspiration to have a beautiful mood and a beautiful life. Beauty is the basic element of life, which exists in almost all fields. There is no shortage of beauty in life. What is lacking is the eyes that are good at digging, discovering and feeling beauty, because beauty or not is, in the final analysis, an emotional experience from the heart. The essence of beauty is actually "the objectification of human’s essential power", and all the beautiful things between heaven and earth have undergone creative transformation of the mind. We need to awaken aesthetic feeling, strengthen aesthetic cognition and improve aesthetic appreciation to discover beauty, know beauty, understand beauty, experience beauty, appreciate beauty, create beauty, show beauty and embody beauty. In short, the majority of young college students should constantly cultivate their aesthetic taste and ability in practice and improve their aesthetic quality, thus bringing benefits to enhance their comprehensive quality.

　　(D) carry forward the spirit of labor

　　Labor is the source of promoting economic development and social progress. "The whole so-called world history is nothing more than the process of human birth through labor", and labor creates value and wealth. The goal of individual self-survival and self-development must be achieved by labor. According to the traditional classification, labor is divided into mental and physical. The mental outlook, state and quality formed and displayed by laborers in the process of labor are collectively called labor spirit. Different times have different interpretations of the spirit of labor. Under the guidance of the educational goal of cultivating new people in the times, the spirit of labor in the new era also has rich connotations and implications. The majority of young college students should take "the most glorious, the most beautiful, the noblest and the greatest labor" as the labor value orientation, stick to the initial intention of labor, respect the labor achievements of every worker, and safeguard the labor dignity of every worker; Advocate labor, love labor, and practice the diligent, honest and practical labor spirit in every labor process.

　　To sum up, enhancing the comprehensive quality of college students is the value goal and logical destination of ideological and political education in colleges and universities in the new era, and it is also the external manifestation of the realization of the value of ideological and political education in colleges and universities in the new era. Working hard to enhance the comprehensive quality requires us to train and cultivate talents in a multi-dimensional and multi-directional way, and to cultivate a batch of comprehensive talents that can meet the needs of accomplishing the blueprint of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

　　Author: Zhou Lisheng, Vice President of Jiangxi Normal University, Ph.D. candidate of Marxism College of Jiangxi Normal University, and Huang Hui, lecturer of Yunnan Art College.