In March, spring is in all its glory and it’s the high time that the university forged ahead with a new start. On March 13th, SDUT grandly held its 6th Session of the 4th Faculty and Staff Congress and the 5th Session of the 4th Trade Union Congress in the Lecture Hall of No.3 Teaching Building. Nearly 300 attendees, including officials, non-voting and invited delegates, gathered to discuss SDUT’s development goals and jointly plan the work for 2025.
The main task of this meeting is to adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, deeply study and implement the spirit of the National Education Conference and General Secretary Xi Jinping's important discourse on education, anchor the goals determined by the 4th Party Congress of SDUT and the 14th Five Year Development Plan, comprehensively summarize the work in 2024, clarify the goals in 2025, closely focus on the requirements of the university's Year of Breakthrough, vigorously implement and concentrate on tackling difficulties, strive to achieve a comprehensive leap forward in the cause, and make new and greater contributions to writing the Shandong Chapter of Chinese modernization.
Those attending the meeting included the university leaders HU Xingyu, LI Yuxia, SU Shoubo, DU Fangling, NIE Faliang, GUO Qingbing, CHEN Shengwei, CUI Huanyong, CONG Hailin, CHEN Jing, and FENG Yiyu.
HU Xingyu, Secretary of the Party Committee of SDUT, presided over the preparatory meeting and the opening ceremony. He hoped that all delegates should take the proactive attitude and seriously fulfill the duties of delegates to conduct the in-depth discussion on SDUT’s work report and work points for 2025 and actively offer advice and suggestions while jointly planning the university's annual goals and work approaches. Emphasizing the need for concrete action, responsibility, and a commitment to excellence, he urged all delegates to ensure the effective implementation of all tasks with a nail-driving spirit, driving the university’s development to a new height.
President LI Yuxia delivered a work report titled Boldness as Our Compass, Action as Our Creed: Driving SDUT's Development to a New Height. The report is divided into two parts: the reviews on SDUT’s work in 2024 and the overall requirements of the 2025 work and the main indicators.
The report provided a comprehensive review of the SDUT's achievements in 2024 across 8 key dimensions: making breakthroughs in talent recruitment and cultivation to build a high-level faculty team; reinforcing the leading role of discipline development through the enhanced strategy for strengthening key disciplines; adhering to the fundamental mission of fostering virtue through education while continuously improving talent cultivation quality; strengthening scientific research and innovation to boost social service capabilities; deepening social engagement to promote university-local integration and upgrading; enhancing international cooperation to steadily raise the institution's global profile; improving comprehensive support services to effectively facilitate rapid development; and advancing comprehensive reforms to fully unleash growth momentum. Meanwhile, it also identified existing deficiencies in areas such as meeting key performance indicators, building a robust discipline system, attracting and nurturing top-tier talent and building innovative teams, as well as producing high-level research outputs.
The report emphasized that 2025 marks the concluding year of the 14th Five-Year Plan and the preparatory year for the 15th Five-Year Plan and SDUT’s Year of Breakthrough. Efforts will focus on 8 key areas: reinforcing the leading role of discipline development to continuously strengthen institutional distinctive advantages; enhancing talent recruitment and cultivation to achieve new breakthroughs in faculty team building; implementing the fundamental mission of fostering virtue through education to comprehensively improve talent cultivation quality; advancing organized scientific research to elevate research capabilities to a new height; deepening social engagement to enhance the quality and effectiveness of societal services; strengthening infrastructure development to bolster institutional support capacity; diligently advancing strategic planning to scientifically design future development pathways; and persistently deepening comprehensive reforms to improve governance capacity and efficiency.
After the opening ceremony, the participating delegates were divided into 11 discussion groups to conduct group discussion on SDUT's work report, key tasks for 2025, financial work report and trade union work report and then put forward suggestions.
After the group discussions, HU Xingyu presided over the presidium meeting in Classroom 311 of No.3 Teaching Building. He heard reports on the discussions of each delegation and the proposal collection status for the 6th Session of the 4th Faculty and Staff Congress. Subsequently, participants discussed and adopted the school's Draft Resolution of the 6th Session of the 4th Faculty and Staff Congress and the 5th Session of the 4th Trade Union Congress .
DU Fangling, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of SDUT, presided over the closing ceremony. CHEN Xuexing, Deputy Director of the Proposal Committee of SDUT's 4th Faculty and Staff Congress, presented a report on proposal work, detailing both the implementation progress of proposals from the 5th Session of 4th Faculty and Staff Congress and the collection status of proposals for the current session. It is reported that this year's Faculty Congress received a total of 104 proposals, suggestions and recommendations from delegates, including30related to teaching and talent cultivation, 7 concerning discipline development and research management, 11 regarding personnel and human resources, 43 on support services and logistics, and 13 covering comprehensive affairs.
The attending delegates voted to adopt the Resolution of 6th Session of the 4th Faculty and Staff Congress and the 5th Session of the 4th Trade Union Congress of SDUT.
DU Fangling made a request to implement the spirit of the meeting.
The meeting concluded with impassioned singing of the school song You Accompany Me.