Shenzhen Academy of Social Sciences (United) Visits: Research on the High-Quality Development of SUSTech's Liberal Arts in the Fourteenth Five-Year Plan Period

On the morning of September 10, 2025, He Xinhong, Secretary of the Party Group and Dean of the Shenzhen Academy of Social Sciences (SOSSU), led a team to investigate the scientific research progress of the 14th Five-Year Plan and the development plan of the 15th Five-Year Plan for the liberal arts of SUSTech. Relevant leaders of the school and Blue Ocean, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences,Professor Tamatsu of the Humanities Center and relevant research experts from various research institutes accompanied the research and participated in the discussion.

Dean He Xinhong and his party first visited the "Taoist Archaeological Ceramic Specimen Database Exhibition Hall" of the Center for Social Sciences and the Institute of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, and Assistant Professor Zhang Jie was in charge of the on-site explanation. This database has been under construction since 2019. Based on the principle of "joint construction and sharing", it mainly collects ceramic sheet specimens and artifacts from various periods at home and abroad. The collection of specimens continued from the Neolithic period to the late Qing Dynasty, including painted pottery in the Ganqing area and the Neolithic period in the Central Plains, primitive porcelain and hard pottery in the southern area of the Shang Dynasty, architectural components of the Luoyang City and the Imperial Mausoleum in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, celadon specimens in the Tang and Song Dynasties in the Yao and Tang Dynasties in Tongchuan, Shaanxi, Qing porcelain specimens in the Song and Yuan Dynasties in Hunan, remnants of the Jianyang and Song Dynasties in Fujian, archaeological specimens unearthed in the Yuyao Factory in Jingde Town, Jiangxi, remnants of porcelain in the South China Sea, and a small number of intactory objects, bone and wood organic specimens. In addition, the museum has also collected more than 10 ceramic pieces from foreign ancient sites in India, Bangladesh, Jordan, etc. It is the first ceramic specimen database in China with the most extensive collection, the largest number, and a complete time span. In 2022, the museum was identified as the popularization base of social sciences in Guangdong Province. The database relies on the advantages of scientific and cultural integration to provide important support for the research and teaching of ceramic archaeology and cultural heritage, and is one of the landmark achievements of the "new liberal arts" construction of the school.

 

(Database of archaeological ceramic specimens in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences)

Subsequently, the research team visited the "Big Data and AI Supervision Laboratory" of the Integrity Research Institute and the "Digital Civilization and Future Urban Sustainable Development Laboratory" of the Global Urban Civilization Model Research Institute.

"Big Data and AI Supervision Laboratory" is a think tank-type laboratory that integrates "theoretical innovation - technology research and development - practical application". Through digitalization and artificial intelligence construction, we will explore effective ways to prevent and control corruption at the source, form replicable and scalable experiences, and provide strong support for positive winds and anti-corruption.

The "Digital Civilization and Future Urban Sustainable Development Laboratory" is committed to building a future-oriented urban civilization cognitive system and strategic think tank. It is committed to comprehensively analyzing the cutting-edge trends and evolutionary trends of global cities in core areas such as governance structure, cultural ecology, technological integration and sustainable development, and proposing a civilization paradigm and urban vision with ideological penetration and era leadership to provide scenario experiments and quantitative support for the new forms of global urban civilization in the 21st century.

(Integrity Research Institute Big Data and AI Supervision Laboratory)

 

(Global Urban Civilization Model Institute - Digital Civilization and Future Urban Sustainability Lab)

After the inspection, the research team held a discussion with the school leaders and relevant teachers. The meeting was chaired by He Jiaqing, director of the Research Department and chair professor. Jiang Hong, secretary of the school party committee, gave a welcome speech and participated in the discussion. Professor Tamatsu of the Center for Humanities and Social Sciences reported on behalf of the Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences, focusing on three aspects: introducing the college's deep implementation of the strategic deployment of the state, the Ministry of Education and the school during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, guided by the concept of science and technology and humanities, and achieving landmark achievements in the construction of new liberal arts.

1. The construction of humanities and social sciences research bases and think tanks has achieved outstanding results. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the hospital was built and approved by 12 provincial and municipal bases and think tanks, including 3 provincial key bases, 3 provincial and municipal bases, and 6 provincial and municipal research and science popularization bases.

II. The research results of the characteristic liberal arts are fruitful. A large number of influential and outstanding achievements have emerged in the various centers and research institutes of the College, and 14 scientific research awards have been awarded at the national, provincial and municipal levels. The financial and political achievements of think tanks have been approved by the national, provincial and municipal governments many times.

(People's Literature 2024 Award Site)

 

3. The "Heritage" collection sponsored by the School of Social Sciences Center and the Institute of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences was successfully selected as the second academic journal in the humanities and social sciences category in Shenzhen, effectively expanding the influence of SUSTech and Shenzhen's humanities and social sciences research featuring the construction of new arts and sciences.

 

(Certificate of Inclusion in Heritage)

Professor Tamatsu said that the Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences is currently standing at a new historical starting point, with both opportunities and challenges. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, the College will take a more proactive attitude and work together to closely follow the strategic goals of the school "335", strive to achieve greater achievements in talent training, discipline construction, scientific research, social services and cultural heritage innovation, and contribute to the exploration of innovative university liberal arts education and the realization of SUSTech's goal of building a world-class research university.

Dean He Xinhong expressed high recognition for the achievements of SUSTech in the field of humanities and social sciences, especially for its forward-looking and practical achievements in the construction of "new liberal arts". He said that the Shenzhen Academy of Social Sciences will continue to support the in-depth research of SUSTech in the field of new arts and sciences, and jointly promote the high-quality development of philosophy and social sciences in Shenzhen.

In his concluding remarks, Jiang Hong, Secretary of the Party Committee of the University, pointed out that this research activity has further strengthened the exchanges and cooperation between the Shenzhen Academy of Social Sciences and the Southern University of Science and Technology, and laid a solid foundation for jointly undertaking major scientific research projects and jointly building a high-level social science platform in the future.

 

Group Photo

 

Text: Yu Bei, Wang Junhui

Reviewed by: Wang Lixin