Abstract: Since the new era, the Party history education among college students has made obvious achievements by the comprehensive integration into ideological and political teaching, the second classroom and daily life. However, there are some practical difficulties, such as unclear discipline orientation and teaching staff without high qualifications; inadequate curriculum system and repetitive teaching content; lagging educational reform and low level of informatization; lack of rich connotation in practical education and students' inactive participation. In order to further improve the effectiveness of college students' Party history education, it is necessary to clarify the discipline orientation, improve the teachers' qualifications, reconstruct the curriculum system, optimize the teaching content, obtain the educational resources of Party history and integrate them into the curriculum ideological and political education, intensify the education reform, promote information-powered teaching, and make good use of the red bases by cultivating the practical connotation.

Key words: Party history education, educating people through the Party's policy, effectiveness, red base, theme practical activity