The Party Building and Ideological Education in Schools (Semi-Monthly) is an educational academic journal under the supervision of Yangtze River Publishing and Media Company Limited and sponsored by Hubei Yangtze River Newspaper and Media (Group) Co. It was founded in 1983 and is openly circulated both at home and abroad. It is recognised as a national Chinese core journal and the only party building journal in the national education system. It has received the attention of the Central Propaganda Department, the Organization Department, the Ministry of Education, and experts and scholars of party building and ideological and political education in colleges and universities across the country. The purpose of the journal is to explore the new concepts and ideas of party building and ideological and political education in colleges and universities in the new period, to serve the party and government leaders, party cadres, propaganda cadres, academic cadres, teachers of ideological and political theory courses and counsellors in schools, and to devote itself to carrying forward the main theme, publicising the advanced models, disseminating the experiences and discussing the related issues. At the same time, the magazine emphasises theoretical, forward-looking and practicality, and as a platform for the propaganda of advanced experience in party building and theoretical achievements in ideological and political education in colleges and universities, the copy reprint rate is among the highest in similar journals.