President Yang Haitao Spoke at the Joint Conference of New National Undergraduate Universities

On the morning of December 1^st, the grand opening ceremony of the Joint Conference of New National Undergraduate Universities (the 9^th working conference) was held at Yancheng Normal University. People in attendance included the president of the Chinese Higher Education Academy, the former vice-minister of the Chinese Educational Department, Professor Zhou Yuanqing, one of the founders of the Chinese Higher Education Academy, the Honorary President of the University Education Institution of Xiamen University, Professor Pan Maoyuan, the Director of the Assessment Section of the Chinese Educational Department, Zhu Hongtao, of the Educational Department of Jiangxu Province, several government officials from Yancheng City and about 400 delegates of Secretaries of the Communist Party Committee, as well as presidents and relevant officials from 140 new undergraduate universities in 26 provinces, cities and municipalities in China. Professor Cheng Changchun, the secretary of the Communist Party Committee of Yancheng Normal University was the host of the opening ceremony.

Professor Zhou Yuanqing, Professor Pan Maoyuan and Professor Zhong Binlin from Peking Normal University made reports on the theme of the meeting. The meeting focused on research towards higher education strategic development, reformation and innovation, characteristic development, and regional services.

In the forum on characteristic development, President Yang Haitao was the first representative from our university. Hebegan by presenting an overview of Huizhou City and our university. Then, he elaborated four respects in terms of regional services, characteristic education, international education and talents development. His speech was met with favorable comments from the delegates.

This meeting lasted three days. Secretary of the Communist Party Committee Li Xiufeng and deputies of the Communist Party office from Huizhou University also attended the meeting.