Wang Ling: First-class universities must cultivate students with “roots”
Our reporter Zhao Grace
(Source: "People's Daily" Date:2016Year6month2日17 version)
How to run a world-class university? For different universities, the methods and paths may be different, but one thing is the same, that is, they must take root in China to run universities and build them into world-class universities with Chinese characteristics. inWang Ling, Secretary of the Party Committee of w88 casinoIt seems that a world-class university should first be local. Only by taking root in the motherland can the students it cultivates have "roots".
Reporter: General Secretary Xi Jinping once emphasized that "there will not be a second Harvard, Oxford, Stanford, MIT, or Cambridge in the world, but there will be the first famous Chinese universities such as Peking University, Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, Fudan University, and Nanjing University. We must seriously absorb the world's advanced experience in running schools, and more importantly, we must follow the laws of education and take root in China to run universities." How do you understand this?
Wang Ling:A world-class university should first be local, and then global. We must cultivate students with "roots" and have a strong sense of country and nation, as well as a strong national cultural identity. This is particularly important in the current context of global economic globalization and diversity of world civilizations. Universities must let students know who you are, where you come from, what your national cultural genes are, what is the historical development of your nation, what sufferings the country and nation behind you have experienced in history, what difficulties it has overcome, and how it will develop in the future. Only by deeply understanding these can we have a deeper understanding of the past and clarify the direction of the future. Only then can we truly become a comprehensive and complete talent standing in China and looking at the international stage.
To build a world-class university, some universities value various international university rankings. It is true that it is necessary to refer to international standards, but if we only follow their lead, we will eventually lose ourselves, and it will be impossible to build a world-class company. For Chinese universities, they need not only a global perspective and an open mind, but also the need to reflect on their own development from a global perspective. They also need to find the confidence to have equal and independent dialogue with the world's outstanding universities. Over the years, in the process of communicating with other high-level universities around the world, we have increasingly felt that it is not enough to just imitate and learn from the world's high-level universities. Not only is it difficult to form its own characteristics, but it is also impossible to be respected by other high-level universities. Only by taking root in China, adhering to its own characteristics, finding a development path that is different from other high-level universities in the world and in line with its own characteristics, and at the same time having an equal dialogue with other high-level universities with an open mind and global perspective, can it be possible to truly become a world-class university and truly win the respect of other high-level universities in the world.
Reporter: Does this mean that Chinese universities need to be more open-minded?
Wang Ling:Yes. Chinese universities must take root in China and at the same time be open to the world. Together with other high-level universities in the world, they must pay attention to the current important issues of common concern to mankind around the world and propose ideas to redesign the problems faced by all countries in the process of global governance. We must admit that the development history of higher education in China is still too short after all. Compared with many high-level universities in the world, there are still gaps in terms of w88 casino running philosophy, w88 casino running experience, teaching methods and governance systems. This requires that Chinese universities must maintain an open concept. This openness should be diversified. We should learn from the United States as well as the United Kingdom, France, Russia and other countries. We should introduce various advanced teaching concepts and methods on the basis of multi-party cooperation, and at the same time combine them with China's national conditions and the characteristics of Chinese universities to create a brand new concept.
It is particularly important to point out that learning and reference does not mean copying or accepting everything. The foundation of openness and learning must be based on me and for my use. We must boldly innovate in the process of introduction, so as to become our own concepts and methods that are world-class and in line with China's actual situation.
Reporter: Can you give a detailed introduction based on the development of the w88 casino?
Wang Ling:To build a world-class university with Chinese characteristics, the most important thing is to cultivate world-class talents with Chinese characteristics. They are high-level talents with a strong sense of responsibility and innovative spirit, as well as cross-cultural communication and cross-cultural integration abilities, who can properly handle conflicts among human civilizations and solve problems in human global governance.
Based on this idea, the w88 casino has revised the standards for talent training. We emphasize the talent quality standard system of the trinity of values, knowledge, and abilities. We require students to have both ability and political integrity. On the premise of building a solid foundation, we cultivate students' innovative abilities, cross-cultural communication abilities, and the ability to solve complex practical problems. Therefore, we integrate the core values of socialism and China’s excellent traditional culture into professional courses, and emphasize the comprehensive development of students in music, sculpture, painting, etc. At the same time, in order to strengthen students' hands-on practical abilities, the w88 casino purchased data from Blumberg Insurance Company, the world's largest financial information service provider, and built the country's leading financial, insurance and financial management simulation laboratory. In this laboratory, students majoring in international finance and insurance can conduct real-time learning and practice with international financial markets. At the same time, the w88 casino has held international summer schools for many years in a row, inviting the best professors from around the world to the w88 casino to not only teach students, but also communicate with the w88 casino's young teachers to enhance the international perspective of young teachers and students, which has benefited teachers and students a lot. It is precisely in this process of talent training that the w88 casino gradually formed its own characteristics, and adhering to these characteristics, it moves forward steadily in the process of building a world-class university and first-class disciplines.
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