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The scale expanding of colleges and universities brings enlarged enrollments and strengthened student associations. To solve problems exit in the present party construction of college student associations such as insufficient ideological cognition, imperfect system construction and the lack of guiding strength, this essay proposes methods to the new mode construction of the party construction of college associations in the new era. This means that we need to accelerate the pace of the combination of the party construction and student associations, construct a long-term guarantee mechanism, promote the work of party construction with social activities and strengthen the cultivation and education on party members. All of these methods would help strengthen the party construction work in college student associations, perfect the student party construction system, optimize the management mechanism in the college associations, cultivate advanced community culture and enhance the effectiveness of ideological and political education on college students to continuously promote the development of the party construction work and student associations. 1 Status quo of party construction work in China’s college student associations China accelerated the structure of college infrastructure and enlarged the enrollment scale after the boom of Asian financial crisis in 1997 to positively stimulate the domestic demand and thus began China’s college expansion. In this background of college expansion, China’s school age population are having growing demands on higher education, which transform gradually from elite education to mass education. The enrollment scales of colleges, which experience leap development, greatly relieve the economic pressure caused by insufficient domestic demands. The scale variation trends of China’s college students over the years are shown in Chart1. From the statistics, it is not difficult to find that China’s colleges had been expanding too fast since 1998. During the six years from 1999 to 2005, the number of China’s college students grew rapidly in a rate of 24.5% per year and this enlarged enrollment scale directly caused the problems such as backward education quality far behind the expansion speed, the loss of teaching quality and the mismanagement on students. While colleges slowed down their expansion knowing those disadvantages, the overall scale of college students from 1999 to 2014 had expanded 7.57 times, an average annual expansion of nearly 14%. The student number in regular and junior colleges had the most obvious increase from 3,409,000 in 1998 to 25,477,000 in 2014, nearly 7.47 times. The number of postgraduates in 2014 had increased by 9.3 times compared with 1998, growing from 198,885 to 1,848,000. Meanwhile, unlike the slowed down increase of undergraduates, the number of postgraduates still has an accelerating increasing speed and an obvious expansion. The number of student associations has increased a lot with the rapid expansion of college enrollment scale. According to incomplete statistics, there are now more than 10,000 student associations with members ranging from ten to thousands in China’s colleges, and more than 5,000 are in Beijing. International Conference on Education Technology, Management and Humanities Science (ETMHS 2015) © 2015. The authors Published by Atlantis Press 810 Chart 1 Variation trend of China’s college students over the years Due to the limited teaching source, even part of the college associations have teachers as nominal consultant or minor leader, they rarely take part in actual management. Leading by student cadres, most associations are loosely organized, they lack sustainable development abilities and sufficient influence power. This is just the present situation of China’s student associations. The present situation results the great difficulty in carrying out the work of party construction, the mode of which fails to meet the demands of ideological and political education on college students in the new era and thus need an in-depth mode transformation. 2 Problems in the party construction work of college student associations in China The management layers of China’s colleges generally fail to have comprehensive recognition on the function of student associations and lack management theories and practical experiences. For colleges, the management of student associations still focuses on the associations’ development and management; these are questions that need research and thinking. Colleges and universities should treat every student association evenly, however small the association is, it need care and effective guidance from the school. Moreover, schools should have in-depth thinking on how to meet students’ development demands in building more associations to enrich the students’ after-class life which would help cultivate a complete personality. The actual problems faced by student associations are how to scientifically orient the association, how to cultivate a core management group, how to enhance the impact of the association, how to improve the quality of its activities and how to realize its continuous development etc. Therefore, either in the perspective of school or student group, a solid core management group with right thinking orientation is inevitably needed to enhance the cohesion and attraction of the association. While party branches in student associations can help solve problems such as insufficient cohesion, other problems still exit during the process of theory studying and practicing in party constructing work in student associations. First is the insufficient ideological cognition. The college party construction work goes deep into student associations and should direct the political orientation to provide a significant guarantee of ideology and organization for the healthy development of college associations. However, in the real working process of party construction in student associations, its importance and urgency failed to get enough attention. The management layer, fail to have a comprehensive recognition on the function of the party construction work in student associations,

Reflections and Constructions on the Forming of New Party Construction Mode of College Student Associations in the New Era