Symposium on higher education development held in YNU

YNU holds a special symposium on the reform and development of higher education on Sept 29. [Photo/ynu.edu.cn]

A special symposium on the reform and development of higher education in Yunnan province was held at Yunnan University (YNU) on Sept 29.

Du Yubo, president of the Chinese Higher Education Association, gives a special report. [Photo/ynu.edu.cn]

Du Yubo, member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, president of the Chinese Higher Education Association, and former vice minister of the Ministry of Education, gave a special report entitled "Macro Thinking of the Modernization of Higher Education."

In his report, combining with the practice of higher education management and research, Du elaborated on several major issues in the modernization of higher education from eight aspects, spanning the time and trend of higher education development, world-class standard and Chinese characteristics, discipline construction and talent teams, layout structure and service ability, talent training and mechanism innovation, opening-up and international cooperation, integrated education systems, as well as leadership and Party building.

He noted that being world-class means that universities should expand the level of opening up to the outside world and adhere to first-class standard to build a world-class evaluation system with Chinese characteristics.

Lin Wenxun, Party secretary of YNU, presides over the symposium. [Photo/ynu.edu.cn]

Lin Wenxun, Party secretary of YNU and the host of the meeting, expressed his hope that all teachers and students of YNU will deepen the reform of the higher education system and its mechanisms with a strong sense of responsibility, accelerate the modernization of the university governance system and governance capabilities, as well as make contribution to YNU's "double first-class" construction.