Abstract: It is a vital part and important task to strengthen the ideological and political education of college students for colleges and universities to deal with public health emergencies. In the prevention and control of COVID-19, the effective practice of fighting against COVID-19 across the country has provided rich materials for the ideological and political education of college students. In the situation of regular epidemic prevention and control, it is of great value and significance for colleges and universities to improve the effect of ideological and political education of college students and fulfill the fundamental task of cultivating people with moral integrity by exploring the effective path and mechanism of integrating the pandemic prevention and control into ideological and political education of college students. It is advisable for universities to boost the ideological understanding with the focus on the measures for fulfilling the task. It is essential to combine direction and value, link dominance to regularity, and mix theory with practice. Coordinated efforts should be made to combine the pandemic prevention and control with ideological and political education. Ideological and political education of college students will be truly made the ideological driving force and motivation for the prevention and control of the pandemic.

Key words: COVID-19 pandemic, college students, the ideological and political education, the mechanism of integration