On January 3, Zhejiang University Development Liaison Conference was held at Qiushi Hall of Zijingang Campus to review the achievements of the University in its development liaison in the past year, analyze the opportunities and challenges ahead, and propose new ideas for the future.
Ren Shaobo, Secretary of the CPC Committee and Wu Zhaohui, President of Zhejiang University were present at the Conference and delivered speeches. Vice Presidents He Lianzhen and Huang Xianhai presented awards to the teams and individuals who made contributions in 2021. The guests present launched the “Dreams in Zhejiang University” development fund multiplication plan together and Vice President Huang Xianhai gave a report on the work and introduced the multiplication plan.
Ren highlighted the strategic importance of the development liaison in the smooth running of the University. In recent years, the work has been following the tradition, showing unique features, making some innovation and achievements with solid work and good momentum, and thus supported the first round of “Double First-class Initiative” in a holistic and high quality way. Guided by a higher mission and vision, we should set benchmarks against the world-class universities based on the reality of the University, look high and far, be determined to stay in the forefront and finally achieve an overall leap in the development liaison of the university. Meanwhile, the high quality development liaison is expected to support the University in its progress to be a world-class one with Chinese characteristics, including student cultivation and effective allocation of resources onto them. It is also used for developing strong disciplines, growth points and future directions, for conducting pioneering innovations at basic research and frontier studies in interdisciplinary fields and getting support for liberal arts. Besides, the work should serve the “greatness of the nation”, make new contributions in line with national strategies, regional development, and the “major missions of the nation”.
Ren Shaobo stressed that we should reshape and develop the work at a higher pace, build a better alumni network and an open cooperation system globally; explore more channels and expand the scale of the Foundation; innovate the mechanism and unlock the potential; popularize ethical culture and build a community of university-alumni development. On the other hand, we should have a bottom-line thinking, maintain political security, guard against liability, financial and integrity risks for the sustainable and healthy development of the work. The conference should be taken as an impetus to step up the development liaison system with a higher aim and support the University to be one of the top world-class universities.
President Wu said that the University has shown good momentum in development liaison with concerted efforts. All the community members should view the work as one core competency and one important and urgent matter in the high-quality progress of the University to be a top world-class one. So, the development liaison should be conducted around the major strategic needs of the University, the advantages be transformed into first-class educational and teaching resources, public resources be introduced into the innovative development of first-class disciplines, the society be motivated to support first-class innovation ecosystem. In this way, the development liaison will facilitate open development globally, help modernize governance capacity to offer a solid foundation for the University.
Wu Zhaohui also highlighted the necessity to construct a more diversified, sustainable and secure development liaison system, so it will support the reform and development of the University, enhance fundraising, investment and fund use with stronger process governance, attract more quality resources on the basis of stable fundraising stock with expanded network of the University, improve the organizational structure of development liaison with the full play of the functions of departments and schools, integrate the motto of seeking truth and pursuing innovation into the work with the public spirit of students and teachers. In a nutshell, the members should work together to pool new forces for sustainable development, and lay a solid foundation for the University.
Li Xiaoming, member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Committee and Executive Vice Dean of the School of Medicine and Mei Deqing, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Committee and Executive Vice Dean of the Ocean College, made speeches on the themes of “Building a new ecology for supporting medical development” and “Innovating development liaison, enhancing open-source capacity” respectively.
It is reported that the “Dreams in Zhejiang University” development fund multiplication plan will offer quality system to the University in five aspects, i.e. talent cultivation, master pooling, academic research, cultural popularization and campus construction.
Present at the Conference were Si Jianmin, Luo Jianhong and Li Peipei, Vice Chairmen of the Development Committee, chief accountants, standing committee members of the CPC Committee, directors, supervisors, legal advisors and development liaison advisors of the Education Foundation, and the heads of relevant colleges and departments of the University.