On the afternoon of October 23rd, Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, and Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang, and Li Xi, members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, who were elected at the first plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the CPC, cordially met with Chinese and foreign reporters, and General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered an important speech.
Our teachers and students listened and watched through TV, the Internet, etc., followed the live broadcast of the meeting, and learned the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech. After the meeting, teachers and students talked freely about their feelings and experiences.
Yang Xiaohui, Secretary of the Party Committee of NENU: Shouldering the ardent trust of more than 96 million Communist Party members and carrying the ardent expectations of more than 1.4 billion Chinese people, the new central leadership group is ready, and will lead the whole Party and the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country to embark on a new journey of socialist modernization with Chinese characteristics. We must always adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, deeply understand the decisive significance of the “two establishments”, enhance the “four consciousness”, strengthen the “four self-confidence”, achieve “two safeguards”, fully implement the Party’s education policy, constantly strengthen and improve the Party’s overall leadership, regard the study, publicity, and implementation of the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Party as the primary political task at present and for a period of time to come with a high sense of political responsibility and mission, and quickly set off an upsurge of studying, publicizing, and implementing the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Party. We should unify our thinking and actions with the decisions and arrangements of the 20th CPC National Congress, further consolidate ideological consensus and spiritual strength, carry forward the great spirit of Party building, be self-confident, self-reliant, upright and innovative, move forwardwith vigor and courage, forge ahead on a new journey with high-quality Party building and high-quality development, and lay a solid foundation for comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinesepath to education modernization!
Liu Yichun, President of NENU: The new members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau met with Chinese and foreign reporters, and General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered an important speech, once again pointing out that our goal is to achieve modernization with Chinese characteristics. The 20th CPC National Congress drew up a grand blueprint for promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese path to modernization and sounded a strong call for comprehensively building a modern socialist country. The report of the 20th National Congress regards education, science and technology, and talent as the basic and strategic important supporting forces for future socialist modernization, further highlighting the firm determination of the Party and the state to implement the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education. The development of the country depends on talent, and the rejuvenation of the nation depends on talent. Colleges and universities shoulder the heavy responsibility of talent training, and to promote innovative development and high-quality development on the new journey, they need to better cultivate, use, rely on talents, and firmly establish the basic strategy of talent-led development. We must quickly set off an upsurge of study, publicity, and implementation of the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Party, keep pace with the times, actively embrace a new journey and meet a new mission, and effectively help achieve high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement by creating more original achievements in the world’s leading position. It is necessary to persist in upholding integrity and innovation, implement the fundamental task of strengthening moral education and cultivating people, adhere to the mission of educating people for the Party and the country, and strive to cultivate new people of the era who are worthy of the great task of national rejuvenation.
Professor Lv Lijie, Chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party of NENU and Minister of Education: Resolutely support the new leadership group of the CPC Central Committee, conscientiously study and implement the spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress, unswervingly advance along the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and devote ourselves to the great construction of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. We should deeply understand that education, science and technology, and talent are the basic and strategic supporting roles for the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country, so we should start from our own work, fulfill our responsibilities for the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education, the strategy of strengthening the country with talents, and the innovation-driven development strategy, educating people for the Party and the country. We should adhere to the fundamental task of strengthening moral education and cultivating people, focus on the core issues of national education development in the construction of first-class disciplines, overcome difficulties, coordinate research, actively participate in the modernization of education, and contribute to the high-quality development of education.
Professor Yin Kuijie, Secretary of the Party Committee of the School of Political Science and Law: The First Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee elected a new central leading body, drew up a new blueprint for socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, started a new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country, and defined the new goal of comprehensively realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. As a college teacher, I was greatly inspired and my confidence increased.. We must comprehensively and deeply study and implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Party, further unify our thinking, build consensus, clarify our goals, firmly establish political awareness, overall awareness, core awareness, and alignment awareness, consciously unify our thinking and actions with the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Party, concentrate wisdom and strength on the implementation of the decisions and arrangements of the 20th National Congress of the Party, rally more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, and keep in mind the original mission of educating people for the Party and the country, we should earnestly undertake the historical mission entrusted to teachers and humanities and social science workers in the new era, actively be the disseminators, leaders and practitioners of teaching and educating people and social science research, and constantly make new and greater contributions to winning the great victory of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era and realizing the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Professor Wang Haitao, head of the Party Committee of the School of Life Sciences: The First Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee elected a new central leadership group to lead a new journey, which is the aspiration of the Party and the people, and is of decisive significance for comprehensively building a modern socialist country, realizing the second centenary goal, and comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese path to modernization. As a leading cadre of Party members in the university, I wholeheartedly support the new central leadership group, never forget my original intention, keep in mind my mission, constantly enhance the “four awareness”, strengthen the “four self-confidence”, resolutely achieve the “two safeguards”, maintain a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core in ideology, politics and action, keep in mind the fundamental task of strengthening moral education and cultivating people, and contribute my wisdom and strength in rejuvenating the country through science and education and innovating the cultivation of talents.
Associate Professor Kong Jiejun, the Faculty of Marxism: The first plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China elected a new central leadership group, and Comrade Xi Jinping was elected as the General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee. As a college teacher in the new era, I feel extremely proud of the historic achievements made by the people under the leadership of the Party in the new era, and I am full of expectations for the new journey of comprehensively building a socialist modern country and comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese path to modernization. The important speech delivered by General Secretary Xi Jinping during the meeting with Chinese and foreign reporters after the meeting was very heartening. In the new journey, we must deeply understand the great significance of the “two establishments”, resolutely achieve the “two safeguards”, closely surround the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, be down-to-earth, forge ahead, unite and move forward, adhere to self-revolution, and contribute our own strength to building a strong country in education.
Li Zhuoyu, 2022 master’s student in the College of Arts: Looking back on the past five years, I deeply appreciate the great historic changes that have taken place in the land of China. I firmly believe that in the next five years, the new central leadership will live up to its trust and lead the Chinese people and the Chinese nation to continue to march toward glory. As a young NENUer in the new era, I will be guided by the spirit of the 20th National Congress, keep the integrity and innovation, work hard, never forget my original intention on the road of pursuing the future, not only cherish ideals, dare to challenge unknown fields, but also be down-to-earth, serve the motherland with practice, strive to contribute in my own professional field, cast my personal pursuit in the cause of the country and the nation, and write a song of struggle worthy of youth and the times.
Ding Ming, a 2020 graduate student of the School of Geographical Sciences: The First Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee was successfully held to elect a new leadership group of the CPC Central Committee, which was elected by the people’s representatives and fully represented the will of the people. This result gives us great anticipation and confidence in the future. The modernization with Chinese characteristics requires the participation of every Chinese, and it also requires the active participation of college students in the new era. As contemporary college students, we should strive to improve our self-cultivation in daily life and study, continue to carry forward the spirit of the older generation of bearing hardships and standing hard work, immerse ourselves in hard work in study, and strive to contribute to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. As the successors of the socialist cause, we should shoulder our historical mission, cherish lofty ideals, establish the concept of lifelong learning, adapt ourselves to society through continuous study, and move forward with vigor for the realization of the second centenary goal.
Xia Feifei, 2019 undergraduate student of the School of the Environment: I am deeply encouraged and inspired by General Secretary Xi Jinping’s speech at the meeting between the 20th Political Bureau Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee and Chinese and foreign reporters. As a young Party member, I will further adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, learn theoretical knowledge well, actively participate in practical training, take the initiative and set a good example, give full play to my professional advantages, immerse myself in hard work, move forward courageously, apply what I have learned to the research and development of key technologies and paths for pollution reduction and carbon reduction in the spirit of research, respond to the national call for carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, achieve success in learning, make contributions, and undertake the mission of the new era. We should integrate youth struggle into the great cause of the Party and the people, and strive to be good young people in the new era who have ideals, dare to take responsibility, can endure hardships, and are willing to struggle.
(From News Center, translated by Wei Jia, revised by Liu Lixin)