On June 26th, “Jixia Academy · Social Development and Chinese Sociology Tracing Summit Forum”, sponsored by the National Institute of Social Development of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, SDUT and the Publicity Department of CPC Zibo Municipal Party committee, and undertaken by Zibo Qi Culture Research Institute and School of Laws of SDUT, was held in Zibo Qisheng International Hotel.
ZHANG Yi, president of the National Institute of Social Development of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, attended the forum and delivered a speech via video. LYU Chuanyi, secretary of the Party Committee of SDUT, and LI Xinsheng, member of the Standing Committee of Zibo Municipal Party committee, director of Zibo Propaganda Department, and secretary of the Education Working Committee of Zibo Municipal Party Committee, attended the forum and delivered a speech. More than a hundred well-known experts and scholars from many domestic colleges and university such as Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Renmin University of China, Jilin University, Fudan University, Shandong University, Nankai University, etc. were invited to the conference for discussion and exchange.
On behalf of SDUT, LYU Chuanyi extended warm congratulations to the forum and sincere welcome to the experts and scholars. He briefly introduced the basic situation of SDUT and the new progress and achievements in the inheritance and promotion of Qi culture. He pointed out that the holding of this forum would deepen the understanding of the academic community on the disciplinary system, academic system and discourse system of Chinese sociology, further promote the research and development of sociology with Chinese characteristics, Chinese style and Chinese manner, and would also play a positive role in promoting the construction level of sociology discipline and the quality of social governance talent training in SDUT.
In the speech, LI Xinsheng said that Jixia Academy was the world’s first public university and government think tank. Together with Plato Academy in Greece, it was regarded as the cradle of civilization in the world axis era. Zibo would take the successful holding of this forum as an opportunity to further innovate ideas and make persistent efforts to transform the huge advantage of Qi culture resources into brand advantages, competitive advantages and development advantages, so as to make the thousand years of Qi culture full of vitality and build a historical and cultural city with traditional culture and modern civilization into a more colorful one.
During the forum, experts and scholars such as JING Tiankui, member of the academic department of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, director of the Institute of sociology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and honorary president of Chinese Social and Ideological History Committee of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, LIU Shaojie, director of the Research Center for Sociological Theory and Methods of Renmin University of China, the key research base of liberal arts of the Ministry of Education, TIAN Yipeng, dean of the School of Philosophy and Sociology of Jilin University, and XIE Xia, professor of the Department of Sociology of Fudan University, LIN Juren, director of the Department of Sociology of Shandong University, LIU Yaoting, president and editor in chief of Shandong Social Sciences magazine, LI Shanfeng, researcher of Provincial Conditions and Social Development Research Institute of Shandong Academy of Social Sciences, DUAN Tali, professor of School of Political Economy of Shaanxi Normal University School, as well as CHEN Hongbing, professor of Sociology Department of School of Laws of SDUT, made keynote speeches on the orientation of Jixia Academy and the origin of Chinese sociology, the theory of schools, Xunzi’s thought and Jixia Academy, and launched a heated discussion.