On December 31st, 2020, LYU Chuanyi, secretary of the Party committee, and Hu Xingyu, vice secretary of the Party committee and president of SDUT, delivered 2021 new year’s address entitled “Open a New Journey of High-Level University Construction in an All-Round Way”, the main contents were as follows:
2020 was a very unusual year. In the face of the sudden epidemic, the Party committee of SDUT put the safety and health of teachers and students in the first place, and took the epidemic prevention and control as the most important work to ensure the safety and stability of the campus. After the baptism of war against COVID-19, we really saw the significant advantages of the leadership of the Communist Party of China and the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, and felt very honored and proud of being a Chinese.
In 2020, we were full of passion, and strived to paint the colorful scroll of SDUT. All teachers, students and staff had created outstanding achievements with their excellent aspiration, brave responsibility and strong ability. SDUT had deeply implemented the “talent priority strategy”, 157 talents of national, provincial and ministerial level as well as young doctors had joined in SDUT, and the proportion of doctors among full-time teachers was more than 50%. SDUT persisted to the fundamental task of fostering virtue and cultivating talents, and had gained great achievements in “Five-Have” talent cultivation. SDUT has been rewarded as “Excellent School of Online Learning Space Application of the Ministry of Education in 2019”, and has been approved as 7 national first-class undergraduate courses, 2 projects of new engineering research and practice projects of the Ministry of Education, 2 provincial high-level “Advantageous and Characteristic Disciplines” and 169 national awards of key competitions for undergraduates. SDUT deepened the reform of scientific research management system and had been rated as the national intellectual property pilot university and provincial comprehensive pilot unit of scientific and technological achievements transformation, and 254 scientific research projects above the provincial and ministerial level have been approved. SDUT adhered to the principle of “rice and millet are boiled together” which refers to integrated development with Zibo City, the Shandong province and the Zibo City signed the memorandum of cooperation on the construction of SDUT, the school-city integrated development was upgraded, and the provincial advanced ceramic innovation and entrepreneurship community and the provincial engineering laboratory was approved. SDUT stuck to the development concept taking teachers and students as core, steadily promoted the basic construction and service guarantee, and continuously improved the learning and living conditions of teachers and students. And SDUT also kept to and strengthened the Party’s overall leadership over the work of school, grasped the party construction to promote reform and development, an all-out effort to enforce strict Party discipline had achieved remarkable results.
As we were on the way to the 14th Five-Year Plan, we couldn't help looking back. During the 13th Five-Year Plan, under the correct leadership of the provincial Party committee and the provincial government of Shandong Province, and with the strong support of all sectors of society, every day had been full and fruitful, and every step had been sonorous and powerful. In accordance with goals and tasks determined by “One Spirit” and “One Plan” and the working idea of “focusing on one goal, building two teams, implementing three efforts, and strengthening three guarantees”, SDUT deepened reform and innovation, and paid close attention to the implementation. The university has become a university jointly built by Shandong Provincial People’s Government and the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, PRC. All the work went on smoothly and the characteristics of high-quality connotative development were gradually emerging. The goal of “building a distinctive, high-level and domestic well-known teaching and research university” has been basically realized.
In 2021, we will be full of expectations, forge ahead and start a new journey ambitiously. We should base on the new development stage, implement the new development concept, integrate into the new development pattern, comprehensively strengthen the Party’s leadership, adhere to the fundamental task of fostering virtue and cultivating talents, adhere to integrity and innovation, deepen reform, seize opportunities with the awareness of advance, solve problems with problem-solving thinking, vigorously implement the “strategy of strengthening advantageous disciplines” and “talent priority strategy” , continue to improve the students’ ability to grow and develop talents, to apply basic research, to integrate university and local development, and to make culture lead society. We will comprehensively optimize the talent training system, faculty development system, university’s and schools’ operation system and condition guarantee system, and take all measures to work together to produce a new situation for the construction of the high-level university in the new era.
Wish our great motherland more prosperous and a better tomorrow for SDUT!