On March 7, Xi’an Peihua University held the 2025 Work Conference and High-quality Development Promotion Meeting. This meeting aimed to thoroughly implement the spirit of the national and provincial education conferences, fully deploy theuniversity’s work in 2025, and lay a solid foundation for the university’s centennial birthday and the“Fifteenth Five-Year Plan”. Over 170 participants attended the meeting, including all university-level leaders, heads of administrative departments and above, deans, associate deans, and assistant deans of secondary colleges, party secretaries and deputy secretaries, office directors, department heads, and program directors.
At the meeting, Principal Li Yingfang arranged the work of the school in 2025 from ten aspects.He stressed that the year 2025 marks the final year of the university’s 14th Five-Year Plan and the planning phase for the 15th Five-Year Plan.It is not only the year of acceptance for the rectification following the audit and evaluation and a critical year for advancing the university’s master’s degree program application, but also a pivotal year for the university to fully align itself with the national strategy of building a strong education system and to promote its development at a higher level. The university’s work throughout the year must be guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly implementing the guiding principles of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Second and Third Plenary Sessions of the 20th CPC Central Committee. It should earnestly carry out the spirit of national and provincial education conferences, fully implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important discourses on education, as well as the key instructions delivered during his inspections in Shaanxi. Wemust uphold moral education as the fundamental task,withthe goal of“building high quality and rising to a new level”, deepening the comprehensive reform in the field of education and establishing a modern university system as the basic path. Byconstantly consolidating the foundation, refiningthe distinctivecharacteristics, forming core competitiveness,we will goall out to promote the implementation of“One main line, five key tasks”,pooling strong synergy for moral education and laying a solid foundation for Peihua’s centennial celebration. He required that in 2025, 40 major tasks such as party building, education and teaching reform, student development, talentdevelopment, scientific and technological innovation, international school running, university-local integration, and internal governance should be solidly completed, and all cadres and teachers should clarify their goals, face difficulties, solve specific problems, and lead and guarantee the high-quality development of the school.
Chairman Jiang Bodeliveredan important speech at the meeting.He asked all cadres and teachers to thoroughly study and fully comprehend the work report, strive to join theuniversity’sreform and development with concreteactions, and contribute to writing a high-quality development chapter for Peihuawith dedication and diligence. He pointed out that 2025 is destined to be an unusual year.The whole university should clearly understand the current circumstancesfor development, new tasks,new requirements.It is imperative to deeply reflect on the university’s mission and responsibilities within the national and provincial strategies for building a strong education system and pursuing high-quality development.Efforts must be made to further pinpoint the primary direction of advancement, identify strategic leverage points, plan scientifically, and clarify work objectives, ideas, and measures. A solid job must be done in successfully concluding the 14th Five-Year Plan and laying a strong foundation for the launch of the 15th Five-Year Plan.
He pointed out that at present, the giant wheel of higher education is breaking the wind in the wave of change, the demographic dividend has faded, and the economic pressure has intensified, which has brought new opportunities and challenges to the reform and development of private higher education. Aseducators, we need to think beyond education and beyond theuniversity. We need to thinkwithintheframeworkof market economy. As a private university moving towards a century, no matter how the economic environment changes, we need to seize the opportunity to develop rapidly when the economy is booming by virtue of our core competitiveness, innovation ability, organizational ability and risk management ability.Facingthe economic downturn, we can resist risks by adjusting business strategy and optimizing comprehensive reform in the field of education, and maintain stable and high-quality development of schools.
He pointed out that He emphasized that educational reform is an inevitable response to the challenges of the times.Private colleges and universities should give full play to the advantages of flexible systems and mechanisms, focus on the major issue of industry-education integration. Oriented toward the needs of the market and employers,we should deepen the reform of talent training mode, vigorously promote the order-based of talent training programs,and createa Peihua version of“dual system”education.Forward-looking efforts should be made to develop emerging disciplines and programs, and to provide lifelong and personalized education services. It is necessary to actively embrace the AI revolution, rebuild a learning and innovative organization, implement application-oriented curriculum reform, comprehensively review the curriculum,andensure thatitis accurately connected with market demand.Practical training and hands-on learning components should be increased to improve students’employability. He also called for stronger collaboration among secondary colleges, academic programs, and administrative departments to enhance teamwork and innovation.;promote institutional reform and personnel reform of theuniversity, introducingnew mechanisms such as equity, option and partnershiptostimulate the enthusiasm of teachers and administrators, and forminga strong force for the university’s high-quality development.
In his speech,Chairman Jiang Bo expressed his earnest hope that all the faculty and staff would implement the spirit of the meeting with innovation and dedication, deliver a satisfactory performance in 2025, jointly promoting the development of the university He aspires for the university to achieve a remarkable transformation in its journey toward the second centenary goal, becoming a benchmark for high-quality development in private higher education.
At the end of the meeting, Party Secretary Liu Feng made a concluding speech. He emphasized that accomplishing the tasks of the new year is both challenging and of great responsibility. All cadres and teachers shouldwork withrenewed spirit and a proactive attitude toshape acommon development blueprint and promote high-quality development of the university. It is necessary to further the unity in thought, with a strong sense of responsibility and mission, uphold the spirit of reform and innovation, come up with practical and effective measures,always maintain a steadfast and action-oriented work style, and plan and advance the university’s development within the broader context of the Party’s and the nation’s undertakings. It is necessary to show the new style of unity and endeavor ofXi’an Peihua University, accelerate with the courage to lead, and achieve new accomplishments through hard work, and steadily advance the university’s high-quality development, so as tomake new and greater contributions to the high-quality development of the university in the new era andon thenew journey.
