Abstract: There area wealth of red cultural resources in Qujing.The effective integration of localized red resources into ideological and political courses can shorten the distance between students and help better play the ideological guidance, political control and moral demonstration functions of ideological and political courses in institutions of higher learning.At present, the integration of red culture in Qujing into ideological and political courses in in institutions of higher learning faces the cognitive dilemma of concept dislocation, the institutional dilemma of mechanism vacancy and the communication dilemma of young college students' weakening of red culture identity.The ideological and political courses in institutions of higher learning should actively change the teaching concept and deeply tap the educational resources of red culture in Qujing; all departments should establish and improve relevant systems to ensure that the red resources of Qujing can be effectively integrated into the ideological and political courses in institutions of higher learning; and the teaching methods should be constantly reformed to guide young college students to establish red culture self-confidence.

Key words: red culture in Qujing, ideological and political course in institutions of higher learning, dilemma, countermeasure