General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech at the fifth collective study of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee profoundly answered the major propositions of the times about what is a strong education country and how to build a strong education country and provided fundamental guidelines for accelerating the construction of a strong education country. From August 21st to 22nd, the Education Working Committee of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Education Commission held the 2023 summer meeting of leaders and cadres of colleges and universities in Beijing to comprehensively and thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, implement the deployment of education to strengthen the country, and promote the high-quality development of higher education in the capital. Party secretaries and principals of colleges and universities in Beijing focused on “Building a Powerful Educational Nation” to answer questions, discussing how colleges and universities can play a leading role and better serve the construction of a powerful education country and the development of the capital in the new era with practical actions.
Qiu Yong, Secretary of the Party Committee of Tsinghua University
Universities in the capital should thoroughly study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speeches, grasp the development of schools from the overall perspective of building a strong country through education, give full play to the leading role of higher education, strengthen educational confidence, and build morality and cultivate people The fundamental tasks, opening up a new situation for high-quality development, serving high-quality development, strengthening the construction of the teaching staff, and promoting high-level opening up to the outside world will continue to make efforts, make contributions for a long time, consciously assume historical responsibilities, and strive to be at the forefront of building a strong education country. Tsinghua University will consciously deeply integrate the construction of serving the capital’s political center, cultural center, international communication center, and scientific and technological innovation center with the construction of a world-class university with Chinese characteristics, and make greater contributions to the comprehensive promotion of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Zhang Donggang, Secretary of the Party Committee of Renmin University of China
We must continue to study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech, and deeply understand the strategic significance, overall goals, scientific connotations, realization paths, and fundamental guarantees of accelerating the construction of a strong education country. The path is to continuously improve the quality of managing the party, running schools, and cultivating people with morality, achieving new results in cultivating “pillars of revival and pioneers of strengthening the country”, achieving new breakthroughs in building independent knowledge systems, and creating new achievements in serving the great practice of the new era. New achievements, with the first good standard as the “leader of the leader” in the construction of a strong education country, resonating with the development of the capital in the new era, co-existing in symbiosis, striving to take the new path of building a world-class university with Chinese characteristics, and realizing the modernization of higher education Contribute the wisdom and power of the National People’s Congress.
Hao Ping, Secretary of the Party Committee of Peking University
Universities in the capital have abundant educational resources and strong development momentum. They have made progress with the development of the capital for a long time, and have formed a group of high-level universities that are at the forefront of the national higher education team.
Colleges and universities in the capital must continue to promote the “double first-class” construction in serving the capital’s development, closely follow the deployment of the 13th Beijing Party Congress, and benchmark Beijing’s goal of taking the lead in basically realizing socialist modernization and promoting the development of the capital in the new era The fundamental requirement is to actively integrate into the construction of Beijing’s “four centers” and the “five sons linkage” pattern, organize high-level talent teams and high-quality resources to invest in the construction of new scientific research institutions, focus on building a modern economic system with capital characteristics, ease non-capital functions, and build effective Provide new ideas and new solutions for key tasks such as the super-large city governance system, and contribute to the construction of a world-class harmonious and livable city.
Wang Yunpeng, President of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
As an important force in China’s higher education, universities in the capital must establish a strong awareness of the capital, integrate school development into the functional positioning of the capital, and fully support the construction of Beijing’s “four centers”.
It is necessary to adhere to the first good standard, implement the fundamental task of cultivating people through morality, cultivate talents closely in line with the needs of the capital, and lead the high-quality development of the capital with high-level talent training.
We must shoulder the responsibility of being the first to be good, give full play to the role of a new force in scientific and technological innovation, root in the heavyweights of Beijing’s construction platform, overcome “stuck neck” technologies, and build a national strategic scientific and technological force.
It is necessary to highlight the first good deeds, adhere to the “four orientations”, deeply promote the integration of industry and city, school and city, and write a vivid chapter of building a socialist education power with Chinese characteristics on the land of Jinghua.
Zhang Jun, Secretary of the Party Committee of Beijing Institute of Technology
To build a strong country in education, the leader lies in higher education. The capital Beijing has gathered a group of high-level universities. It is necessary to further leverage its location advantages, policy advantages, and resource advantages, gather strength to accelerate the building of a first-class university group, and support the construction of an educational power with first-class higher education services.
Beijing Institute of Technology will seize the important opportunity of building the functions of the “Four Centers” in Beijing, adhere to the leadership of the party, consolidate the development of education, science and technology, and talents, and use the modern governance system to accelerate the promotion of connotative, High-quality development, firmly follow the road of red education, the road of strengthening the army to serve the country, and the road of innovation and development, and lead and support the modernization of education and Chinese-style modernization with the modernization of higher education.
Zhong Denghua, Secretary of the Party Committee of China Agricultural University
China Agricultural University will be guided by the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important reply, resolutely shoulder the mission and responsibility of “National Agricultural University”, earnestly implement “strengthening the country first, strengthening the agriculture, and the agricultural university as a pioneer”, and comprehensively promote “8 Improvement Actions” and “2 Multiplication Plans” to accelerate the construction of a world-class university with Chinese characteristics and agricultural characteristics.
The first is to firmly grasp the direction of running a socialist school and fully implement the fundamental task of cultivating people through virtue. The second is to comprehensively improve the quality of independent training of talents, and focus on cultivating new talents who know and love farmers. The third is to actively face the country’s major strategic needs, and continue to improve the ability of self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology. The fourth is to focus on building a first-class talent team and speed up the construction of an important global talent center and innovation highland in the agricultural field.
Zhang Shuting, President of Communication University of China
To build an educational power, we must establish cultural self-confidence. Communication University of China will focus on the goal of building the capital’s “four centers” functions, especially the building of a cultural center, give full play to the advantages of journalism and communication, drama and film and television, and comprehensively and systematically deploy cultural communication and international communication capacity building to help accelerate Construct China’s independent knowledge system, focus on promoting cultural inheritance and innovative development, strengthen the discourse innovation and narrative system construction of civilized exchanges, promote the creative transformation and innovative development of excellent traditional Chinese culture, and build a sense of the Chinese nation’s community and tell Chinese stories in the new era. Contribute to the wisdom and strength of China Communications, and enhance the influence of Chinese civilization.
Guo Guangsheng, President of Minzu University of China
Minzu University must properly handle the relationship between small and large, and integrate the “small pattern” of school development into the “big pattern” of capital development and building a powerful education country.
Handle the relationship between the front and the back, actively give play to the advantages of discipline talents, play a good first move in the integration of education, technology, and talents, and fight the initiative. In the “second combination” of the basic principles of Marxism and excellent traditional Chinese culture “Be a good vanguard and pioneer in China.
Handle the relationship between constant and changing, clarify the goal orientation of serving the construction of a strong education country, not only stick to the original intention of education, stick to the mission of the National People’s Congress, but also constantly adapt to the new trend of the capital’s higher education development, and strive to explore new models and new paths for the development of higher education , Contribute to the construction of the modern civilization of the Chinese nation.
Zhao Min, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Central Conservatory of Music : The Central Conservatory of Music will focus on serving the country and Beijing’s development strategy, based on the school’s development orientation and discipline advantages, and constantly improve the development concept of “creating ideas, talents, works, benefits, and models”. In building a strong education country and serving the construction of the capital’s “four centers”, the advantages and unique role of culture and art will be actively played; in-depth implementation of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s people’s art concept, adhere to the people-centered creative orientation, and actively promote the cultural prosperity and development of the capital, Persist in telling Chinese stories and Beijing stories well with music.
Miao Jinxiang, Secretary of the Party Committee of North China University of Technology
In the construction of a strong education country, North China University of Technology will deeply serve the high-quality development of the capital, support the cultivation of high-level applied talents and technological innovation with the construction of high-level disciplines and high-quality teachers, and adjust and optimize the setting of disciplines and majors , to enhance the matching degree between talent training and the economic and social development of the capital; to promote scientific research innovation and the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and to increase the contribution to the development of high-tech industries in the capital; to deepen the reform of the personnel and talent evaluation mechanism, and to enhance the fit between the system and the development of the capital; Deeply integrate into the transformation and development of the western Beijing region, enhance the degree of integration and support for regional economic and social development, and contribute to the capital’s education in the forefront of building an educational power.
Jiang Zeting, Secretary of the Party Committee of Beijing University of Technology
Beijing University of Technology will focus on the original mission of “rooting in the capital to serve the country with science and technology” in the construction of the “Four Centers” in Beijing, and strive to provide talent guarantee and intellectual support for the high-quality development of the capital.
In the next step, the school will consciously take the integration of production and education and the integration of science and education as the only way to implement the classified development requirements of municipal colleges and universities and realize their own high-quality development. Through the implementation of connotation, characteristics, and integrated development strategy, optimize the “one body, two wings and multiple points” innovative development space layout, and gradually become an important regional fulcrum for the construction of Beijing International Science and Technology Innovation Center, a characteristic innovation engine for the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, and a national strategic scientific and technological force. It is an organic component that constantly enriches the new connotation of building a world-class university.
