The political guiding function of academic journals and the grasp and fulfillment of it are not an external existence. It is the essential requirement of socialist publications, the inner features of academic journals and the reflection of essential attributes of editing work in the new era. The reality and the sense of the times for realizing the leading formation by means of the political function of academic journals activate their development. The political guiding function, as the major thinking and requirement of running journals throughout, will not weaken or deprive the academic and th...