Recently, the Department of Social Sciences organized a seminar on the theme of “New Strategies and New Thinking in Philosophy and Social Sciences”. Professor Jin Xiaoyan, Professor Xu Bin, Professor Li Tao, and Professor Ren Zhifeng, four trainees from NENU who participated in the backbone training course of philosophy and social sciences teaching and scientific research of the six central departments in September 2022, reported on the training outcomes. Those from the Department of Social Sciences, the vice deans in charge of scientific research work of the schools (departments), and the representatives of the teachers of the youth fund project of NENU conducted a lively discussion on the current national strategy of philosophy and social sciences and the solid promotion of NENU’s scientific research work of liberal arts based on the content of the training report.
At the meeting, four trainees shared their learning experiences respectively. They said that the workers of philosophy and social sciences in the new era should take adhering to the implementation of Xi Jinping’s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as the primary political task, learn and thoroughly understand General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions on philosophy and social science work, and combine the national “14th Five-Year Plan” Philosophy and Social Science Development Plan and 2035 Action Plan for High-quality Development of Social Science in Colleges and Universities, and strive to achieve clear direction, true doctrine, deep knowledge, and moral integrity, and demonstrate our strength and achieve good results in solving the overall, fundamental and critical issues related to the Party and the country. They said that by listening to the reports of relevant leaders of various ministries and commissions, they had a better understanding of the country’s urgent need for high-quality philosophy and social science research. Philosophy and social science in the new era should take answering the questions of China, the world, the people, and the times as its academic duty, and highlighting China’s path, government, and principles as its ideological pursuit, striveto improve the service capacity of think tanks, and actively build China’s independent knowledge system. The vice deans in charge of scientific research work of each school (department), and the representatives of teachers of the youth fund project of NENU exchanged ideas on issues of common concern, such as how to better serve the major strategies of the Party and the country, highlighted their respective research advantages and characteristics, and discussed the effective implementation ofinterdisciplinary scientific research collaboration and other issues of common concern. Bai Bing, director of the Department of Social Science, emphasized in his concluding remarks that he hoped NENU’s philosophy and social science teachers would follow up and thoroughly understand the Party’s innovative theory, follow and study the latest national policy spirit, so as to capture and anchor major research topics, and strive to align personal research with the national development strategy, care about our era with a pure heart, serve our country in an academic way, and grow into a great scholar of practical use. At the same time, he introduced the main working ideas and plans of the current social science department to the teachers attending the meeting, including persisting in organized scientific research, encouraging interdisciplinary research, fully activating the motivation of scientific research, building a positive academic ecology inside and outside the school, and making all-round guarantee for further promoting the revitalization and prosperity of liberal arts of NENU.
(From News Center, translated by Wei Jia, revised by Liu Lixin)