On the morning of July 16, the Promotion Meeting for the Completion of the 14th Five-Year Plan and the Formulation of the 15th Five-Year Plan, as well as the 2025 Working Meeting of the University Affairs Committee of Communication University of China were successfully held at the Hall V01 of the Academic Center of the university. The meeting was chaired by Liao Xiangzhong, the Secretary of the Party Committee. All school leaders, the executive director, deputy directors and members of the University Affairs Committee attended the meeting, with pricinpal heads of various departments and units of the university participating.
President Zhang Shuting delivered a comprehensive summary report on CUC's development during the 14th Five-Year Plan period on behalf of the university. The report noted that the 14th Five-Year Plan period was a five-year period of upgrading and taking off in the school's development history, marking the entry into a high-quality development stage and being of milestone significance. Over the past five years, the university has adhered to the goal and route determined by the Third Party Congress, and has continuously achieved remarkable results through diligent efforts. The goal of building a "world-class communication university with Chinese characteristics" has won wide support, and the strategic task of "three leaps: future-oriented, intelligent, and world-class" has been steadily promoted.
The report made a detailed review of the status of 93 major indicators and 100 key tasks in the 14th Five-Year Plan, as well as the indicators and tasks that did not meet expectations. It also took stock of the unexpected achievements outside the plan through the school's proactive efforts and innovative explorations. In particular, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of CUC This was the most milestone event in the school's history and a common honor for media professionals.
From the perspective of the overall development situation, the 14th Five-Year Plan of the school was both based on reality and appropriately forward-looking, ensuring scientific feasibility while being innovative and challenging. Considering the breakthrough achievements both inside and outside the plan, the school's actual development results have far exceeded expectations. This was due to the school's Party Committee "leading from the front", guiding the whole school to forge ahead bravely, and also thanks to the strong synergy brought by the CUC culture in the new era.
At the meeting, regarding the overall plan of the school and the sub-plans for discipline construction, talent team, talent cultivation, scientific research development, building an internationally first-class university, campus construction, the responsible persons of the leading departments for the relevant formulation work reported their considerations for the formulation in turn, from aspects such as work planning, target tasks, and implementation paths.
Zhang Genxing, the Executive Director of the University Affairs Committee, presided over the work exchange among the participating members around the summary of the 14th Five-Year Plan and the formulation of the 15th Five-Year Plan. Members Yao Xishuang, He Haiming, Gao Huiran, and Deputy Directors Chen Zuoping, Zhang Hongsheng and others spoke one turn. The members unanimously stated that the achievements of the school during the 14th Five-Year Plan were gratifying, and the blueprint drawn for the 15th Five-Year Plan was inspiring. They hoped that the school would firmly recognize the mission of building an educational powerhouse by 2035, carefully analyze the major changes in the media industry, enhance the sense of urgency, seize the strategic opportunity of artificial intelligence empowering education, cultivate more high-quality media talents capable of meeting future challenges, and promote the innovative development of media higher education.
Under the chairmanship of Liao Xiangzhong, the members of the school's leadership team and the main responsible persons of various teaching and research units spoke in turn. The members of the school's leadership team commented on the summary of the 14th Five-Year Plan and the formulation of the overall and sub-plans for the 15th Five-Year Plan, fully appreciated the achievements made in various undertakings during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, and put forward constructive suggestions for the formulation of the 15th Five-Year Plan. They emphasized that the strategic positioning of the school's Party Committee for the 15th Five-Year Plan period should be fully implemented, the relevant indicator systems for the construction of "Double First -class" universities should be used as a reference, development indicators and key tasks should be planned in an innovative and moderately forward-looking manner, and a strategic vision for the future should be systematically depicted. The main responsible persons of various teaching and research units briefly reported on their development visions, work planning for the next five years, and stated that they would continue to reflect deeply and plan proactively in accordance with the spirit of this meeting, thus to better formulate the five-year plans for their units.
Zhang Shuting put forward clear requirements for the formulation of the 15th Five-Year Plan. He pointed out that the formulation of the plan was a complex project, and the working method of "simplifying complexity" should be adopted to grasp three core steps.
First, be sensitive to the opportunities and challenges brought by environmental changes, follow the laws of education and policy guidance, and plan future development with referring to world-class universities.
Second, objectively analyze the school's own advantages and disadvantages, take a realistic attitude of "appropriately discounting advantages and fully accounts for difficulties" in order to gain a clear understand the actual situation, and build a solid foundation for development with a lucid understanding.
Third, anchor the ideal goals, strengthen the sense of mission of "serving the country's major needs by building a better CUC", adhere to the fundamental task of cultivating people with virtue, and take the cultivation of high-quality teaching staff and leading talents as well as the output of high-quality teaching and research results as key means to achieve a comprehensive breakthrough in first-class talent development.
In his concluding speech, Liao Xiangzhong highly evaluated the important achievements made by the school during the 14th Five-Year Plan period and praised the outstanding contributions of every member of CUC. He pointed out that the school planned the 14th Five-Year Plan one year in advance, with high-level and practical indicators and clear targets for the hundred tasks. During the implementation of the plan, the school arranged work at the start of the year and promoted it in the mid-year through the spring and autumn work reports, and included the implementation of the plan in the annual target assessment of secondary units, promoting the smooth achievement of various goals and tasks with effective measures.
He emphasized that ,in the fact of challenges, the university had developed a comprehensively “3+1” core competitiveness, namely a unique higher education system for media, an in-depth concept of cross-integration development, the ability to tackle key problems by concentrating superior forces in coordinated operations, and the CUC culture in the new era of "unity, endeavor, innovation, and competition", thus effectively enhancing combat effectiveness and initiative, supporting the school to create, seize, and embrace an unprecedented major strategic opportunity period, and achieving leapfrog development.
Liao Xiangzhong pointed out that during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the school actively served the country's strategic needs, faced the challenges of the media industry's transformation, completed the systematic layout of disciplines and majors through the construction of "four batches of talents", vigorously promoted in-depth comprehensive reforms, achieved the transformation and upgrading of the teaching and research systems, and established a school-running pattern of "rooted in media and going beyond media".
The university’s graduates, known for being "quick to start, strong in foundation, and full of potential" was recognized by the industry, and the school's social reputation achieved a qualitative leap. For the indicators and tasks that have not met the development expectations,further efforts are to be made by relevant departments and units to ensure the high-quality completion of the 14th Five-Year Plan.
Liao Xiangzhong emphasized that we should face up to both achievements and deficiencies, be proud but not arrogant, and face future challenges with a clear mind. Looking forward to the 15th Five-Year Plan period, the keyword for the school's development is "innovation and strength-building".
He stressed the need to focus on the fundamental task of cultivating people with virtue, place the school's development in the overall situation of education, serving economic and social development as well as supporting and leading Chinese-style modernization, adhere to integrity and innovation, break fixed patterns, organically combine aiming high with being down-to-earth, and organically combine the key breakthroughs in the school's "Three-Year Action Plan" with the overall leap in the 15th Five-Year Plan period.
Liao Xiangzhong clearly put forward that for the high-quality formulation of the 15th Five-Year Plan,
First, the university should accurately grasp the relationship between media education, Chinese education, and world education, follow the laws of education, highlight the characteristics of CUC, and answer the question of "what is world-class media higher education".
Second, the construction of the teaching staff should be regarded as the top priority, comprehensively improve the overall quality of teachers in mastering artificial intelligence, iterating knowledge structures, and expanding international perspectives, and systematically build a teaching staff echelon adapted to future educational reforms, so as to cultivate a "plateau of talents" with high-quality and promote the emergence of more "peaks of talents".
Third, strengthen innovative thinking and enhance future awareness. The strategic positioning determined by the school's Party Committee at the Hainan meeting at the beginning of the year-namely the period of coping with the peak of AI challenges, the period of forming the "one-body, two-wings" school-running pattern, the period of iterative development of digital campus construction, and the period of striving towards "international first-class"-has been widely recognized. We should take the "four periods"as the coordinate direction, deeply reflect on innovation points and areas of focus. Without innovation, there is no future.
Fourth, adhere to the "one-game-of-chess" concept across the school, further unify ideals and steps, systematically integrate and comprehensively promote the three-level planning system of the overall plan, sub-plans, and department and unit plans for the 15th Five-Year Plan, and ensure that the school wins the "life-and-death battle" in the intelligent era.
The successful convening of this meeting has laid a solid foundation for the successful completion of the 14th Five-Year Plan and the formulation of the 15th Five-Year Plan of the school. The school will pool the greatest consensus through the plan-formulation work, draw a larger concentric circle for the 15th Five-Year Plan, form a strong synergy of people thinking in one direction, pooling wisdom, and working together, and depict a greater new chapter of the era through the efforts of CUC, contributing to the construction of a powerful country.
Article translated by a large language model.
Editor: Xie Yike, Li Jichu
