On September 16th,2022 Wang Mingyu, secretary of the Education Working Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and vice governor, went to Shenyang Institute of Technology for investigation. Wang Mingyu has visited the school’s Advanced Intelligent Manufacturing Center, Automobile Training Center, and the Key Laboratory of the National Forestry and Grassland Bureau for the Prevention and Control of Dangerous Pests in Northeast China, and learned more about the school’s personnel training, specialty construction, and laboratory construction. Then, he presided over a symposium to listen to the report of the school on the implementation of the spirit of the conference on the high-quality development of private higher education in the province, the prevention and control of epidemic situation and the preparations for resumption of schooling.

Wang Mingyu stressed that private colleges and universities are an important part of higher education, and it is necessary to deeply study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important exposition on education, fully implement the party’s education policy, implement the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education, accurately grasp the requirements for high-quality development of higher education, strengthen the leadership of party building, give full play to the advantages of the system and mechanism of private colleges and universities, and effectively implement the general secretary’s important exposition in the whole process and aspects of college personnel training, running schools and governing schools.

Wang Mingyu demanded that it is necessary to implement the work arrangements of the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial government, and in accordance with the relevant requirements of the "Opinions on Further Strengthening the Construction of the Conditions for Running Private Secondary and Higher Schools, Strengthening School Management, and Improving the Quality of Personnel Training" issued by the Provincial Party Committee Education Work Committee and the Provincial Department of Education, we should regard promoting the high-quality development of private higher education as an important task and pay close attention to it. It is necessary to adhere to the system of selecting and appointing party committee secretaries of private colleges and universities, strengthen the assessment of the leading bodies of private colleges and universities, comprehensively standardize the setting of internal institutions, complete the construction and strengthening of the party and government management team, the professional teacher team and the service guarantee team, and implement the "Three Completes" responsibility for educating people. It is necessary to put party building in the first place, build and strengthen the ideological and political work force, strengthen the ideological and political curriculum and curriculum ideological construction, and constantly improve and enhance the level of ideological and political work in schools. It is necessary to implement the 15 articles of undergraduate education, optimize the professional layout, continue to strengthen the construction of experimental training bases, deepen the reform of the separation of teaching and examination, promote professors to teach undergraduates, and continue to improve the quality of talent training. It is necessary to explore a new model for private colleges and universities to build scientific research teams and carry out scientific research work. It is necessary to steadily promote the opening up of schools and build a new pattern of cooperation and exchanges. It is necessary to fully implement the requirements of the Provincial epidemic prevention and control headquarters and the local epidemic prevention and control work, keep a close eye on the epidemic prevention and control situation, scientifically formulate the epidemic prevention and control plan for teachers and students to return to school, refine various work plans, do a good job in the reserve of epidemic prevention materials, and ensure the smooth and orderly resumption of school in the autumn semester.

Sun Fanbai, deputy secretary-general of the Provincial government, and Feng Shouquan, deputy secretary of the Provincial Education Committee and director of the Education Department, participated in the investigation. The main responsible comrades of Shenyang Institute of Technology accompanied the investigation.

Translated by Basic Courses Department