Recently, the Scientific and Technological Work Conference of College of Management and Economics (CoME) of Tianjin University (TJU) was successfully held in classroom 3C of the 25th teaching building of TJU. Li Lianzhong, secretary of the Party Committee of CoME, Huo Baofeng, director of CoME, directors of other departments and representatives of young teachers participated in the meeting. Xiong Xiong, deputy dean of CoME, acted as the host of this meeting.
Prof. Huo delivered a report on this subject. He elaborated the report of Prof. Zhong Denghua, president of TJU, whose theme is striving to promote the Ability of Scientific and Technological Innovation and Accelerate the Construction of World-class Universities. At present, Tianjin University's guiding principles for scientific and technological work mainly include the following three aspects: “Three Layouts”, “Three Plans” and “Three Promotions”. “Three Layouts” refer to the planning of important scientific research directions, major scientific and technological platforms and key innovation teams. “Three Plans” mean “Peak Climbing Plan”, “Supporting Plan” and “Boosting Plan”. “Three Promotions” refer to the promotion of the major original innovation ability, the strategic ability to serve the country and the support system. Combining with the TJU's guidelines, Prof. Huo hold the view that we should keep the mission of CoME -Seeking Truth From Facts and Flexibly Operate Business Knowledge in mind, at the same time, we should adhere to the fundamental task of establishing morality and cultivating people. Only by constantly improving the quality of talents, academic contribution and social influence can we build a first-class discipline group of management and economic. Later, Prof. Huo elaborated on the report-Tianjin University's Opinions on Implementing Further Promotion of Scientific and Technological Innovation Ability (Draft for Opinions) of Yuan Yingjin, vice-president of TJU. Prof. Huo further mentioned that we should enhance the innovation ability at the source, crack the core technology in key areas, deepen the innovation and development of civil-military integration, build a new high-efficiency think tank with Chinese characteristics and build a billion yuan project. Professor Huo also pointed out that we should explore the core scientific issues and technologies of Tianjin University in the light of the characteristics of economic and management disciplines, speed up the important work of civil-military integration innovation and the construction of new university think tanks, and strive to cultivate symbolic scientific and technological achievements such as 100 million yuan projects and national awards.
Later on, representatives of different departments of CoME discussed how to improve students' scientific and technological innovation capacity and what measures should be taken. Prof. Liu Weihua, department of operations and supply chain management, pointed out that the Third Scientific and Technological Work Conference in TJU was exciting, and teachers were stimulated to discuss extensively on scientific and technological innovation. Besides, some specific proposals for fostering major projects and top-level papers were put forward at the meeting. Prof. Yang Wenming, vice dean of the School of Public Administration, pointed out that different disciplines have different research paradigms , therefore, we should pay attention to the characteristics of every discipline. At the same time, teachers should pay more attention to the frontier of science and technology to serve the country's major strategic needs. In addition, the representative teachers also discussed the objectives of scientific and technological innovation, evaluation system, incentive policies, research methods and paradigms, as well as the cultivation of symbolic achievements
Finally, Li Lianzhong summarized the meeting. He pointed out that we will take the opportunity of the third scientific and technological work conference, and carry out extensive discussions on scientific and technological work, focusing on the major strategic needs of the country. Combined with social practice, we should start with the key issues such as "The Belt and Road Initiative", "Xiongan New Area", "Jing-Jin's environment", and "governance system and governance capabilities", at the same time, we are supposed to cultivate major projects, build a new think tank, cultivate various types of high-level scientific research achievements, and strive to explore how to move from high-level scientific research achievements to major original innovations, so as to provide support for Tianjin University to build a world-class university.
By: College of Management and Economics
Editor: Qin Mian and Keith Harrington
