A Study On National Identity Of College Students

National identification refers to the identification of the people with their tradition, sovereignty, political path, political stand and morality. It is an essential part of citizen awareness and political resource. It is the legal foundation of a modern nation and reasonable pursuit of a human. National identification provides a basis for the society and ensures the development for individuals, thus inspires patriotism.Nowadays, due to the volatile and complex environment both home and abroad, college students are, to some extent, confused in identifying with our traditions, values and some policies. It is essential for college students, the backbone of the nation and the implementers of Chinese Dream, to firmly identify with our history and policy. To be more specific, national identification of college students can be analyzed as the identification with our motherland, socialism road, political theories and political system.The positive identification with our nation can help with college students’self-inspiration and self-regulation in their growth. In developing positive national identification, college studentsThis empirical research was conducted among30colleges and universities from11cities in Zhejiang Province in order that we can get a deep insight into the national identification of college students. After careful literature review and analysis, we did interviews, expert consultations and two samplings. We got56measurement indicators in four dimensions by doing exploratory factor analysis and confirmtory factor analysis. Descriptive statistics, variance analysis, correlation analysis and cluster analysis in SPSS were employed. The findings show that as a whole, college students in Zhejiang Province have positive national identification. There is no significant difference among students who are from different college years, families with different incomes and different regions. But there is significant difference among students considering the following factors:student’s gender, the experiences as student cadres, school types they attended and their majors.It is a systematic project to develop college students’ positive national identification. While learning from successful practice of some developed Asian countries is necessary, we should also explore our own practical ways. The modernization of politics, economy and culture provides good environment for developing positive national identification. School education, students’quality improvement and practical experiences are also indispensable in helping students understand the principle of national identification and thus put it into practice.The power our nation has is a material basis for students’ national identification. Democratic politics provides system security. To cultivate students’ positive national identification, we need to improve their quality and build their confidence in our culture.