At present, the reform of engineering education practice is undergoing a paradigm shift from "coordination" to "symbiosis". However, in operation, multi-base sequential platforms are confronted with structural dilemmas, including the suspension of core values, weak interconnection among participating entities, and fragmentation between knowledge and practice. To address these issues, this study returns to the "Great Production Movement in the Border Regions", a Chinese adaptation and exemplary practice of the Marxist principle of integrating education with productive labor, and conducts a historical decoding of its underlying philosophy of practice. The study proposes that "value anchoring" should be employed to reaffirm the original mission of education, "relational symbiosis" to reconstruct governance structures, and "process integration" to connect curricular systems, thereby enabling a paradigm transformation of engineering education practice platforms from instrumental arrangements to educational communities. Theoretically, this research provides historical legitimacy and intellectual resources for constructing an engineering education model with Chinese characteristics. Practically, it offers a logical framework for universities to reconstruct communities of practice-oriented education.
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