The expert survey team from the Ministry of Education for the projects of collaborative building of institutions of higher learning by the Ministry and provinces investigated and surveyed in IMU for the implementation of collaborative building of IMU by the Ministry and the autonomous region on August 29 and 30. The expert team was headed by Xu Lei, vice president of Fudan University as the team leader and Cao Fei, investigator from the Department of Development and Planning of the Ministry of Education as assistant team leader and consisted of 8 experts from Fudan University and Lanzhou University. Cheng Tao, vice director of the Department of Education of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Shi Jun, director of the Section of Academic Degree Management and Postgraduate Education, members of the leading team of IMU, heads of relevant functional sections and schools/colleges of IMU, representatives of faculty members of IMU attended the investigative activities.
The investigative meeting
At the investigative meeting held in the morning of August 29, Cheng Tao, vice director of the Department of Education of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and Shi Jun, director of Section of Academic Degree Management and Postgraduate Education, gave presentations on the endeavors of the autonomous region in the collaborative building of IMU by the Ministry of Education and the autonomous region. Cheng Tao remarked that the CPC Committee and the People’s Government of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region have always attached great importance to the building and development of IMU, and the Department of Education and relevant government departments have made remarkable initial achievements since the implementation of the collaborative building of IMU by the Ministry of Education and the autonomous region by strengthening leadership and overall arrangement in accordance with relevant requirements of the Ministry and the People’s Government of the autonomous region, actively propelling the reform of delegating power to lower levels, integrating delegation with administration and optimizing service, assembling effective resources, energetically pushing forward the building of the disciplinary platform of IMU, strengthening first-class undergraduate education, implementing policies for introducing talents, enhancing the construction of the Party, and fully supporting the building of Double First-Class and the collaborative building of IMU by the Ministry and the autonomous region. In its forthcoming plans, the Department of Education of the autonomous region will follow the instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping to “run a first-class university with distinctive characteristics successfully”, further enhance organization and leadership, promote the release of relevant long-term mechanisms, ratchet up support in terms of policy and funding, implement policies accurately and comprehensively, create joint force, make overall promotion to the collaborative building of IMU by the Ministry of Education and the autonomous region and the building of Double First-Class, and strive to build IMU into the leading university of Inner Mongolia and prompt it to grow into one of the leading institutions of higher learning in the middle and western parts of China.
Xu Lei, head of the expert team and vice president of Fudan University speaking at the meeting
Cheng Tao, vice director of the Department of Education of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, speaking at the meeting
Chen Guoqing, vice secretary of CPC Committee and president of IMU, speaking at the meeting
In his presentation on the collaborative building of IMU by the Ministry of Education and the autonomous region, Chen Guoqing, vice secretary of the CPC Committee and president of IMU introduced the history of development, basic conditions and schooling positioning of IMU, listed the channels, methods, initiatives and achievements of IMU in fully advancing the building of Double First-Class ad the collaborative building from 9 perspectives including the building of teaching staff, disciplinary building, talent training, scientific research, contribution to the strategies of national and local development, deepening of comprehensive reform, international cooperation and exchanges, construction of the Party and counterpart cooperation, and outlined the development of IMU during the 14th Five-Year Plan.
Hu Wei, dean of the School of Life Sciences and director of the National Key Laboratory and Altanbulag, dean of the School of Ethnology and Sociology of IMU, made presentations respectively on the development of biology and ethnology, the two advantageous disciplines with distinctive features, the construction of large-scale series of research facilities and their collaboration with major local industries with special characteristics.
Hu Wei, dean of the School of Life Sciences and director of the National Key Laboratory, giving presentation
Altanbulag, dean of the School of Ethnology and Sociology, giving presentation
Members of the expert team held discussions with the participants of the meeting on the contents of the presentations.
During their stay the members of the expert team inquired about the history and basic conditions of IMU, the collection of the Exhibition and Reading Room for Ancient Mongolian Books, the preservation of ancient books, inspected the National Key Laboratory for Grassland Livestock Reproductive Control and Breeding collaboratively built by the autonomous region and the Ministry of Science and Technology and visited the dairy sheep research base for cooperation between IMU and M-Natural Animal Husbandry Technology Co., Ltd.
The expert team inspecting the Exhibition and Reading Room for Ancient Mongolian Books of IMU
The expert team learning about the history and basic conditions of IMU
The expert team visiting the National Key Laboratory for Grassland Livestock Reproductive Control and Breeding collaboratively built by the autonomous region and the Ministry of Science and Technology
The expert team visiting the dairy sheep research base for cooperation between IMU and M-Natural Animal Husbandry Technology Co., Ltd.
The expert team concluded after two day’s investigation and survey that the collaborative building of IMU was characterized by strong atmosphere, solid foundation, distinctive features, healthy development, significant effects and deserved affirmation. Besides, the expert team proposed suggestions on how to solve problems IMU faced in disciplinary development, introduction of talents, scientific research and materialization of researches so as to obtain greater policy-based supports, activate innate dynamism, create joint forces, strengthen the building of national-level platform for scientific research, set up disciplinary peaks, collaborate more accurately with industries and innovate models of development.
