On November 29, 2025, the 7th High-Level Forum on “Excellent Traditional Chinese Culture and Ideological and Political Education” was held in Nanjing. Centered on the theme of “Consolidating Chinese Cultural Subjectivity and Enhancing the Guiding Capacity of Ideological and Political Education”, the forum brought together more than 60 experts from universities and research institutions, including Peking University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Zhejiang University, and Nanjing University. The forum was jointly hosted by the Institute for the Development of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, Southeast University and the Southeast University Base of the Jiangsu Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and organized by the School of Marxism and other relevant units of Southeast University. Gu Yonghong, Member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Committee of Southeast University and Director of the Publicity Department, attended the forum and delivered a speech.

Participating experts engaged in in-depth discussions focusing on six major topics, including the “second integration”, the disciplinary development of ideological and political education and talent cultivation, enhancing the guiding capacity of ideological and political education, and the construction of cultural soft power in the new era. Professors Chen Xixi, Zhang Yunyi, and other scholars delivered insightful presentations on issues such as the theoretical leap in the “second integration” and the traditional cultural foundations of core socialist values.

At the closing ceremony, Professor Lu Yongsheng delivered a concluding speech. From two dimensions—namely, “the reflection of the guiding capacity of ideological and political education within cultural initiative” and “the reflection of Chinese culture under the orientation of ideological and political education”—he fully affirmed the forum’s academic achievements. He expressed the hope that participating scholars would continue to advance research on the guiding capacity of ideological and political education toward a deeper, more substantive, and broader new level.