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Huai Jinpeng inspects Shanghai universities

Source: www.moe.gov.cn
2024-10-20

Minister of Education Huai Jinpeng made an inspection visit to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, East China Normal University, East China University of Science and Technology, and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics on Oct. 16. The goal of the visit was to gain insight into key areas such as educational reform, teacher education, educational research, technology transfer, talent cultivation, and think tank development.

Huai recalled the ambitious vision of building China into an educational power, which was proposed by President Xi at the latest National Education Conference. He urged strong action to advance reform in higher education in line with this vision.

Huai emphasized the need to boost the integration of education, science and technology, and talent cultivation, recognizing their roles in providing strategic underpinning for China’s modernization drive. He encouraged collaboration among first-class universities to strengthen basic research. With regards to reform in higher education, he stressed the importance of establishing an innovative evaluation system and developing think tanks to explore new models of training top-notch talent. He also encouraged university-industry technology transfer, and called for universities to initiate and participate in international big science programs.