On December 14, ZWU held a conference in the library auditorium to promote scientific research. Lin Zhihua, president of ZWU; Wang Weizhong, deputy secretary of the Party Committee and vice president of ZWU; Xu Liqing, vice president of ZWU; Ge Chutian, assistant president of ZWU; Yu Dan, assistant president of ZWU; and other university leaders, heads of teaching and research units, functional departments, research institutes and innovation teams, teachers representatives and scientific research secretaries attended the conference. The task of the conference is to systematically summarize the achievements of scientific research in recent years, deeply analyze the potential problems and deficiencies, scientifically plan the development of scientific research ideas for the next period of time, and strive to open up a new situation of high-quality development of scientific research in the new era of the university, and provide strong support for accelerating the construction of a first-class and internationally renowned high-level applied university. The conference was chaired by Yang Zhenfeng, vice president of ZWU.
At the conference, Yang Zhenfeng delivered a report on the scientific research work of the university in the academic year 2022-2023. He pointed out that through a detailed comparison of the application and approval statistics of national, provincial and ministerial scientific research projects in 2021, 2022 and 2023, as well as the number of journal papers published, ZWU has made significant progress in scientific research, with the high-level projects and high-energy platforms and papers improved both quantitatively and qualitatively. In the future, the university will continue to live up to the requirements for high-quality development, implement the concept of strengthening the school through scientific research, strive to stimulate scientific research vitality, and enhance the overall scientific research strength.
Wang Xin, executive dean of the Carbon Neutral Research Institute, and Chen Liping, vice dean of the Faculty of Design, Art and Architecture, respectively reported on the scientific research progress and key achievements. Liu Wen of the College of Information and Intelligent Engineering, and Wu Hongtao of the School of Culture and Communication, respectively gave a speech on the ecological cultivation of the industry-technology integration teams and the accumulation and blooming of humanities and social science research.
Wang Weizhong pointed out at the conference that in recent years, ZWU has made new progress in humanities and social sciences research, new achievements have been made in platform construction, and think tanks have achieved new results continuously. Looking to the future, all units, departments, and teachers should behave in compliance with professional ethics, and continue to promote the construction of scientific research integrity. We should establish a firm bottom line to seize the initiative, solidify the foundation, focus on cross-disciplinary development, achieve key improvements by promoting new breakthroughs in the fields of humanities and social sciences, and make greater achievements in the university’s new round of high-quality development.
Lin Zhihua made a concluding speech. He affirmed the achievements of scientific research work in recent years, and put forward specific requirements on how to better create a new situation for the university’s scientific research from a new starting point: the goal of the scientific research work must be clearer, the scientific research and innovation work system needs to be more complete, the focus of organizing scientific research work needs to be more prominent, the university’s ability to expand the resources for scientific research and innovation needs to be strengthened, and the “incremental and stock” of the university’s high-level innovation carrier needs to be coordinated and promoted. He emphasized that the whole university must improve the ideological awareness, strengthen the responsibilities, pay close attention to work implementation, and work together to build a unified scientific research and innovation system; with a sense of urgency and responsibility and the enterprising spirit, we should work hard and carry on to comprehensively improve the level of scientific research and to strive to open up a new situation for the university’s scientific research and high-quality development in the new era.
The conference is held in the critical year of the school’s comprehensive implementation of the “14th Five-Year Plan” under the requirements of focusing on the high-quality development of the school, bench-marked against the school’s “three-step” strategic objectives. The conference is of far-reaching significance in guiding the scientific research of the whole school in the coming period of time, and it also anchors the goals and directions for the formulation of the school’s scientific research development plan in the new era.