President Qiu Xueqing visits Light Industry and Chemical Engineering College for research and guidance

President Qiu Xueqing visits Light Industry and Chemical Engineering College for research and guidance

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President Qiu Xueqing visits Light Industry and Chemical Engineering College for research and guidance

On the morning of March 5, Qiu Xueqing, Secretary of the Party Committee and President of the university, accompanied by Party Committee Deputy Secretary Zhu Weiwei and Vice President Yu Lin, led responsible persons from the Party Committee Office, President's Office, Development Planning Department, Academic Affairs Department, Scientific Research Management Department, Graduate School, and Human Resources Department to conduct in-depth research and guidance on the construction and management of research teams in the Light Industry and Chemical Engineering College. The college's Party and government leadership team, research team leaders, department and center office heads, and representative backbone teachers attended the symposium.

At the meeting, Vice Dean He Jun, on behalf of the college leadership team, reported on the college's basic situation, reviewed the college's development over the past five years, analyzed existing problems, and proposed the next steps for construction. Dean Yu Lin introduced his thoughts on the college's "striving for first-class" construction. He pointed out that the college should aim to build an A-class discipline, actively explore inter-university discipline benchmarking and exchange models, and through measures such as optimizing talent introduction mechanisms, strengthening research team construction, and enhancing academic and teaching style construction, stimulate the internal motivation of faculty and staff, create a positive atmosphere, and promote the university's "striving for first-class" construction. In recent years, the college's Party committee has fully played its political core role in setting direction, planning development, uniting people, and implementing tasks. It has continuously explored in college culture construction and team building, introducing specific measures. Party Secretary Zhou Dongbin introduced these to the attendees.

Research team leaders Chen Xudong, Zhang Shanqing, Fang Yanxiong, Ding Liming, Huo Yanping, Shi Tongfei, Liu Yan, and others respectively introduced their team construction and development situations, reported on their next development plans, and provided opinions and suggestions on the university and college's management and assessment. Responsible persons from the functional departments in attendance successively spoke, offering "diagnosis and advice" for the college's development and proposing targeted guidance opinions. During the session, President Qiu frequently exchanged and interacted with the speakers, responding to and guiding their thoughts and suggestions.

Deputy Secretary Zhu Weiwei, combining the college's past discipline construction achievements data, fully affirmed the college's construction achievements in recent years and pointed out that the college's "striving for first-class" development momentum is good. She stated that the faculty and staff annual assessment plan has been piloted for three years, and the relevant university departments will conduct in-depth research, listen to faculty opinions, improve and perfect the assessment management system, better play the role of the "baton," and further strengthen the role of team construction in discipline construction and other work.

After listening to everyone's reports and speeches, President Qiu delivered a guiding speech. He pointed out that the purpose of this visit to the college for research is to deeply understand the construction and management of the college's scientific research teams, discuss and exchange ideas and measures to further strengthen team building, form a consensus, and on this basis, institutionalize the college's experience and practices, and promote them in other colleges of the university. In his speech, he affirmed the achievements the college has made in recent years and, based on his own thoughts, provided specific guidance on the college's work: First, he hopes that the college's Party committee will continue to play its political core role, with Party and government leadership members taking the lead, daring to take responsibility, and systematically promoting the college's high-quality development in an all-around way; second, strengthen overall planning and long-term strategies, actively benchmark against top standards, clarify directions for efforts, optimize discipline layout to strive for more discipline construction achievements; third, focus on strengthening faculty team building, continuously improve and make full use of the annual assessment system for faculty and staff to achieve assessment that goes beyond mere evaluation, and effectively strengthen teaching and research team building; fourth, improve laboratory construction levels, encourage teams to actively apply for projects, strive to create more high-level research projects and platforms, and cultivate more high-quality research outcomes; fifth, he hopes that the college's teachers will actively communicate information with the university's functional departments, proactively seek advice and connect with needs, and work together to accomplish various development tasks.

Yu Lin, on behalf of the college's leadership team, expressed thanks to President Qiu, Secretary Zhu, and various functional departments for their guidance and care toward the Light Industry and Chemical Engineering College, and on behalf of the college, made a statement: The Light Industry and Chemical Engineering College will earnestly study and precisely implement President Qiu Xueqing's instructions and work requirements, leading all faculty and staff to respond to the university's call of "act immediately, strive with all efforts, and boldly innovate," seize opportunities, uphold integrity and innovate persistently, and make greater contributions to promoting new leaps in the university's high-level innovative university construction.

(Photo and text / Zhang Haoyun)