As an important component of grassroots Party organizations in higher education institutions, college student Party branches shoulder the vital mission of determining for whom and what kind of people to cultivate. Guided by systematic thinking as an essential methodology, these branches must give full play to their political function. However, at present, the political function of student Party branches in some universities faces several challenges: inconsistency between inheritance and innovation, between theory and practice, between Party spirit and mass character, between mission orientation and problem orientation, and between focusing on the “key minority” and managing the “vast majority.” To fully leverage the student Party branch’s role as a fighting fortress, it is necessary to adopt a holistic perspective and implement a scientific strategic approach: adhere to historical thinking to continuously deepen the exploration of regularities in student Party branch construction; apply strategic thinking to align with the overall objectives of Party branch development; emphasize dialectical thinking to achieve self-adjustment in branch building; advocate innovative thinking to enhance the political vitality of student Party branches in the new era; follow rule-of-law thinking to improve their purity; and strengthen bottom-line thinking to shoulder the responsibility of preventing and resolving political risks.

Ruihong Lei. Research on the Political Function of College Student Party Branches from the Perspective of Systematic Thinking. Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (2025), Vol. 8, Issue 11: 34-41. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJHSS.2025.081107.

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