The School of Marxism traces its origin to the Department of Marxist-Leninist Studies. From 2002 onward, it was affiliated successively with the Department of Politics and Sociology and the Department of Law. In July 2009, it became an independent institution as the Department of Ideological and Political Theory Teaching. In February 2017, it was officially renamed the School of Marxism, an independent second-level teaching institution directly under the leadership of the University Party Committee.
The School is selected as a Candidate Unit for Fujian Provincial Key School of Marxism. It serves as the leading unit of the Fujian Provincial Education Department’s “1+N” Pilot Program for Building University Schools of Marxism, the Fuzhou Research Base for the Theoretical System of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, and the secretariat unit of the Ideological and Political Theory Course Teaching Collaboration Center for Municipal Universities under the Working Committee of Education of Fuzhou Municipal Party Committee.
The School consists of 10 teaching and research sections, including the Teaching and Research Section of An Introduction to Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. It has a full-time faculty of 51 members, including 7 professors and 27 associate professors. It hosts the provincial-level Chen Dong Model Worker Studio, and two teaching and research sections have been awarded the provincial-level May 1st Vanguard Title. The faculty includes 2 experts from the national textbook compilation groups of the Central Project for Research and Construction of Marxist Theory, 1 National Model Teacher, 5 provincial high-level talents, 2 provincial Excellent Teachers, and 1 ministerial and provincial Model Worker.
Adhering to Party building leadership, the School implements the “Ma-Zhen Pilot Project” to promote value-casting and education. Leveraging campus-based resources, it offers distinctive courses including Xi Jinping and Minjiang University and A Study of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s Important Expositions on Education. It innovates the Ideological Politics + Major teaching model and explores teaching reforms such as Ideological Politics Courses in Paintings and Ideological Politics Courses in Exhibition Halls, striving to deliver high-quality ideological politics courses through inheritance and innovation. The School has been granted 18 provincial Excellent Ideological Politics Courses by the Working Committee of Education of Fujian Provincial Party Committee, 5 provincial Teaching Achievement Awards, and 2 provincial First-class Courses. It has guided students to win the First Prize in the National University Students’ Ideological Politics Course Speech Competition, as well as the Individual First Prize and Group Second Prize in the 9th Fujian University “Taking the Lead in Marxism” Knowledge Competition. Faculty members have won 1 Special Prize, 1 Second Prize in the National University Ideological Politics Course Teaching Exhibition; 1 Second Prize in the National Young Teachers Teaching Competition; 1 Second Prize in the National Public Security Awareness Publicity Competition; 1 Special Prize, 2 First Prizes in Fujian Provincial Young Teachers Teaching Competition; and 1 First Prize in Fujian Provincial Military Theory Teaching Competition.
Bearing the earnest instructions in mind, the School is committed to educating people for the Party. It will continuously consolidate the disciplinary foundation of Marxist theory, improve the quality and efficiency of ideological politics courses, strive to build the Minjiang University Model of distinctive ideological politics courses, enhance ideological guidance and social service capabilities, unite efforts to steadily advance the cultivation and construction of the Provincial Key School of Marxism.