Guo Gangqi is delivering a welcome speech.
Li Zhongyun is delivering a lecture.
On the morning of November 29, the seminar of Leadership Science Research Association of Colleges and Universities in Hubei Province and its 2018 annual meeting were held in the lecture hall of HZAU library.
The theme of this seminar was “To study and implement the guiding principles of the 19th CPC National Congress thoroughly so as to improve leadership science of colleges and universities in the new era.” This seminar was hosted by the Federation of Social Science Circles (FSSC) and the Research Association of Leadership Science of Colleges (RALSCU) and Universities of Hubei Province and was assisted by HZAU. More than 100 people attended the seminar, including Party Committee secretaries, presidents, and scholars from different colleges and universities in Hubei. The seminar consisted of two parts: the opening ceremony and the special reports. The opening ceremony was presided over by Zhao Xuemei, executive vice chairman of Hubei RALSCU and vice Party Committee secretary of Wuhan University.
At the opening ceremony, Guo Gangqi, the Party Committee member and vice president of HZAU, gave a speech. He pointed out that with the long-term joint efforts of the faculty and students, the school has been sticking to HZAU motto of “learn and practice, achieve and help achieve” and education concept of “nurturing talent and prioritizing scholarship” to make HZAU a research-oriented university with distinctive characteristics and coordinated multi-disciplinary development. He stressed that universities in Hubei shoulder the mission of building the province into a power with strong higher education, science and education as well as human resources. Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era and the gist of the 19th CPC National Congress, all universities should seize the opportunity to study and implement the spirit of the National Education Conference. At the time of accelerating the construction of double first-class universities, we should jointly promote the sound and rapid development for Hubei higher education.
Xiao Bo, executive vice chairman of RALSCU and former secretary of the Party Committee of Wuhan Polytechnic University, delivered the 2018 work report of the Research Association which summarized the achievements made by RALSCU in Hubei province this year and put forward new requirements for the development and construction for the association. Xiao pointed out that the RALSCU should firmly fulfill Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era and the gist of the 19th CPC National Congress to make new progress for the development of higher education in Hubei.
At the seminar, Luo Chunming, deputy secretary general of RALSCU, explained the revision part of the RALSCU Constitution and executive deputy secretary general Liu Mingda made an explanation about the personnel adjustment of the association.
Wang Wengui, executive vice chairman of RALSCU and deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, and Zhu Yehong, secretary of the Party Committee of Yangtze University, presided over the special reports respectively. Prof. Li Zhongyun, president of Hubei RALSCU, gave a report titled “Campus Culture Construction and Leadership in Colleges and Universities in the New era”. He believed that the construction of campus culture was an important way to improve the leadership of colleges and universities in the new era. Besides, Prof. Li expounded how to enhance university leadership from the perspectives of spiritual, distinctive, team-work, institutional cultural development.
Attendees from various colleges and universities shared their research from different perspectives. “The development orientation of the leadership in colleges and universities is: ability to develop prospect-inspiring thoughts, time-grasping decisions, school-governing institutions and effort-concerting implementation”, Prof. Peng Yuyuan, president of Wuhan Textile University, said in a report titled “Research on the challenge, orientation, and construction of leadership in Colleges and Universities in the New era”. Li Jianlin, secretary of the Party Committee of China Three Gorges University, proposed that universities should earnestly experience the present and foresee the future, consistently enhancing party-building capacity and constantly driving the seminar ahead. Chen Xingrong, secretary of the Party Committee of Wuhan Conservatory of Music, made a report on “Dialectical thinking on the Development Strategy of Universities with specific characteristics in the New era”, and introduced the plans and measures for the reform and development of Wuhan Conservatory of Music.
Zhou Qihong, secretary of the Party Committee of Hubei normal University, made a report titled “Holding high banner to train full-developed socialist builders and successors in morality, intelligence, sports, beauty and labor”, pointing out that “development is of key priority, education is the first duty, and innovation is the first motive force.” Tan Kunhua, Party Committee member of Hubei University and secretary of Commission for Discipline Inspection, shared his views on the issue of “Countermeasures and considerations on overtreatment”.
Prof. Xu Shuangmin from Zhongnan University of Economics and Law talked about “Training abundant young cadres with high quality.” Prof. Zhang Zilong, member of the Party Committee and director of the Propaganda Department of Hubei University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, made a speech titled “Four key points to enhance the leadership of colleges and universities in the new era”. Taking Cornell University as an example, Prof. Chen Xinzhong summed up rules and experience of the development of the world’s first-class disciplines. Later, Prof. Zhao Zhengzhou, Liu Yanbo, Dr. Yi Xiaofang, Prof. Zhou Zhenguo and other attendees extended their reports respectively.
Chen Xingrong, executive vice chairman of RALSCU and secretary of the Party Committee of Wuhan Conservatory of Music, presided over the closing ceremony. Cheng Huadong, deputy-secretary-general of RALSCU, read out a list of outstanding papers, and Prof. Wang Zuoqiao, executive vice chairman of RALSCU, gave a summary report.
The seminar collected 45 high-quality academic papers, covering General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important discourses on education, the study on the enhancement of university leadership, the exploration of party-building and ideological and political work, and the research on comprehensive reform and development of colleges and universities, among which six papers were submitted by teachers and cadres from different Colleges and Departments of HZAU.
Source: http://news.hzau.edu.cn/2018/1129/53185.shtml
Translated by Wang Yining
Supervised by Xie Lujie
