Feb. 23rd, 2010
Dear teachers, students, alumni and friends:
On the occasion of the approaching Spring Festival, to all JPU staff who are working hard the whole year, to the former leaders of the university who have devoted themselves in the establishment, reform and development of JPU, to all retired who have contributed their youth and intelligence to the teaching, research and their service to the society, to all alumni working hard in different areas, to all celebrities who have paid much attention and provided support to the development of JPU, and to all JPU students studying both at home and abroad, we sincerely extend our New Year greetings and best wishes!
Over the past year, the whole JPU staff was full of encouragement. We strived for inner construction of the university, tried to seize opportunities of development, and contributed wholeheartedly. We united as one to work hard and improved ourselves with innovations in the process of developing a qualified higher education to better serve the society and people. We have drawn a beautiful blueprint of reform and scientific development. Over the past year, JPU has developed a more coordinative disciplinary construction, a steady teaching reform, an upgraded technology innovation, a characteristic university feature, a powerful teaching team, an improved innovative talents training, an in-depth service to the local economy and society, a widely-developed international communication and cooperation, an overall university party construction and an increasing social influence and reputation.
Over the past year, JPU has achieved prominent accomplishments. Our concept of serving the society has got well inherited and developed and prominent effect has been found: the disciplinary structure is getting more optimized; the Industry-University Research Collaboration is developing more closely; the interaction between economy, science and education is done with high effectiveness. What s more, with the steady implementation of study and practice of view of science development, the university s scientific development is improved, both teachers and students are really benefited from it, and contribution to the local development has been better realized. Also, Teacher s teaching quality improvement engineering has been steadily pushed forward, graduate employment rate has ranked top in Jiangsu though under a serious economic crisis situation, and alumni like Xu Liu-Ping, Lu Dong, Gao Zheng-Min and Gong Bao-Ren have made outstanding achievements and brought much glory to the university.
The year of Tiger will witness an endeavoring effort by JPU people. The scientific development will create a new era for the university. In the New Year, JPU will write a new chapter of development loaded with JPU people s decades of ideals and loyalty, perseverance and struggle.
2010 is the year to make a good plan for development. We will try to grasp the developing rule of higher education by taking into consideration the national, provincial and municipal s demands on switching economic development mode to optimize the economic structure, and we will try to make a good plan for the university s middle and long term development based on national, provincial, municipal and school situation by widened vision, innovative ideas, extensive research and scientific proof. In this way we can draw a brilliant blueprint that will satisfy both the teachers and students, the alumni and the people.
2010 is the year to improve the ability of technology serving the society. We will pay great attention on improving the service capabilities of science and technology to serve the development of local economy in a comprehensive, multi-leveled and high-leveled way. At the same time, we will take the favorable opportunity of developing national university science park in Changzhou to extensively participate in the "Cooperation of Nine Colleges, Implementation of Scientific Development, Serving to the Local Area" activity which is co-sponsored by colleges in Changzhou, to comprehensively promote the "100-Group Action Plan", "Scientific Talent Exchange Program" and "Platform Co-Construction Program," to actively participate in regional science and technology innovation system, to integrate into the industry structural transformation and upgrading in Changzhou and the innovative researches by famous institutes in Changzhou International Innovation Base, and to realize the comprehensive profit of Industry-University Research Collaboration, Economy-Science- Education Interaction, University-Enterprise-Institute Win-win Result .
2010 is the year to improve the quality. Based on the demands of local economic and social development, we will further optimize the layout of disciplinary system, and realize the mutual coordination, penetration and promotion between different disciplines. We will continue the reform on education and teaching, actively adjust the specialty structure, and implement more scientific, more featured and more effective training programs to further enhance the quality of education and to train more high-quality innovative talents.
With the well-designed plans and good preparations, the dream is possible to come true. In the new era full of competition, with the vigor like a tiger has and the spirit of responsibility and pursuit of excellence, all JPU people will stick to their conviction, bear in mind the mission and strive forward to realize the interactive development of humanistic spirit and scientific spirit, the best cooperation of talents training and scientific innovation, and the promotion of both inner construction and local service!
We wish the prosperity of our great motherland! We wish a splendid future of Jiangsu Polytechnic University! And we sincerely wish that all teachers and students, former leaders of the university, retired staff, JPU alumni and all our friends good luck, happiness and good health!