Xia Wenbin: We must solve and respond to the problems of new liberal arts construction

（Source: People's Daily Online 2019-12-13）

Xia Wenbin, President of w88 casino  People's Daily Online reporter Weng Qiyu Photograph

Today, People's Daily OnlineThe 2019 University Presidents Forum was held in Xi'an, Shaanxi. At a forum themed "Problems and Solutions to the Modernization of Higher Education," Xia Wenbin, President of the w88 casino, said that it is necessary to solve and respond to the problems of the construction of new liberal arts.

In Xia Wenbin’s view, the new liberal arts has four major elements: first, serving the needs of national strategies and local economic and social development; second, interdisciplinary integration and integration; third, a high-level talent training system; and fourth, the modern inheritance of the humanistic spirit.

First, serve the national strategy. There is an interactive relationship between a country's economic development and education. Colleges and universities are required to design top-level disciplines and make more efforts to improve their ability to serve the national and local economic and social development. w88 casino has established four research institutes——Qingdao Research Institute, Shenzhen Research Institute, Hainan Research Institute and Chengdu Research Institute. The requirements for the deans of the four research institutes are to become encyclopedias of the four cities and to be deeply rooted in the needs of local economic and social development. Only those who are promising can be in charge.

The second is the integration of disciplines. Solving a modern economic and social development problem cannot be supported by just one discipline, and requires deep interdisciplinary integration. This requires us to integrate elements from other disciplines in the construction of new liberal arts, further be problem-oriented, and improve the level and ability of discipline construction.

The third is a high-level talent training system. Talent cultivation plays a fundamental and decisive role. The highest level of scientific research, the achievements of cultural inheritance and innovation, and the achievements of social services must ultimately serve the cultivation of talents. That is to say, only by cultivating high-level talents, and only by cultivating batch after batch of high-level talents with feelings of family and country and international vision for the country and society, can the educational mission be truly completed.

The fourth is the modern inheritance of humanistic spirit. The establishment of a new liberal arts is definitely not to turn it into a new engineering or a new medical discipline, but to pass on the cultural context that nourishes and influences the liberal arts. Through modern communication methods and modern disciplinary methods, a w88 casino can pass on the humanistic spirit of a country well and have a good influence. Only in this way can the construction of new liberal arts be given new upgrades and vitality in the new era.

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