[Welcome Party Congress] Shouzheng Innovation Intersectional Integration Creates the New Liberal Arts Road of SUSTech - A Work Tour of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences of our University in Recent Years

Editors' note: In order to implement the spirit of the 20th Party Congress, create a good atmosphere for the second party congress of the school, and encourage all teachers and students to continue to cohesively and vigorously develop, and further promote the high-quality development of the school's various undertakings, the school's official website launched a series of reports to celebrate the second party congress, focusing on the outstanding achievements and highlights of all units in the school in recent years, and showing the school's motto spirit of "Ming Virtue Seeking a New Day and Strengthening Yourself" in the new era. Forge ahead into the future and unite in striving for a worthy mission. All Nanke people will meet the school's second party congress with a new face, strive to open up a new situation of high-quality development of new research universities, and make new and greater contributions to the road of education and self-reliance and self-improvement of high-level science and technology.

The School of Humanities and Social Sciences of SUSTech was established in April 2019. For more than three years since its establishment, it has closely focused on the fundamental task of Lide Shuren. It is its mission to build a liberal arts academy with cross-integration and scientific and humanistic characteristics, and to open up a new path for the development of the liberal arts with higher quality and faster speed.

Structural construction continues to improve, and the talent team strives for excellence

Since its establishment, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences has attached great importance to the construction of teachers while constantly improving disciplinary institutions. At present, the six department-level institutions cover many disciplines such as humanities, social sciences, higher education, art, language and future education. In the second half of 2022, two university-level research institutions, SUSTech's Global Urban Civilization Model Institute and SUSTech's Institute of Integrity Governance, were successively established and anchored to the College, strengthening the College's research strength in liberal arts think tanks and major fields. In terms of talent introduction, the College strictly evaluates personnel and attracts talents from all over the world. At present, the college has 62 teachers of various types, including 24 teaching and research, 6 research, and 32 teaching, which initially builds a high-level teaching team composed of first-class standards, cross-professional knowledge, internationalization, and diversified professional identities. Although the faculty size of the college is smaller than that of the liberal arts faculty of domestic universities of science and technology, it is such a small and sophisticated faculty team that undertakes one-quarter of the teaching courses and one-half of the general courses. Many unique research results have been completed, and a variety of campus cultural activities have been carried out, and the results are gratifying and proud.

Taking advantage of the "double first-class" construction opportunity of the school, the college continued to improve the system construction and improve the governance level, established and improved a number of systems such as the "Rules of Procedure for the Joint Conference of Party and Government of the College" and "Procedures for the Meeting of the Party Committee of the College". The construction of the system of each center was promoted in an orderly manner, and the system was built and integrated, laying a solid foundation for improving the compliance management. The good governance effect is reflected in the protracted battle against the COVID-19 pandemic. The College's epidemic prevention and control work closely follows the layout of the school's prevention and control, and has achieved zero errors and zero errors in epidemic prevention and control for more than two years. Each party branch under the party committee of the college participated in the voluntary registration of 55 party members, and more than 20 comrades went to the front line to support the anti-epidemic work.

Party building leads cohesion and promotes the implementation of Lide Shuren

Since its establishment, the Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences has attached great importance to Party building. In 2021, the Party Branch of the Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences was named the Top Ten Outstanding Party Branches of the Year. The Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences won the first prize in the red song choral competition for the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Party. In the case of tight office space, the leaders of the college specially arranged the space to establish the party members' activity room as the party building activity position. On January 9, 2022, under the deployment and guidance of the party committee of the college, the party committee of the college of humanities and social sciences held the first all-party congress, which was formally established. By the end of November, the total number of party members had increased by 35% from the time of its establishment in January, and the proportion of party members among faculty and staff had steadily increased.

Sports Characteristic Ideological and Political Activities of the "Dandelion" Program of the Party Committee of the Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences

Since the establishment of the Party Committee of the College, it has steadily promoted party building through a series of initiatives. Improve the system to consolidate the foundation and strengthen the political function of the party organization. Implement the system of joint meetings of the Party and the government of the College, and further give play to the leading role of the party organization and politics. Establish the ideological working group of the College to carry out relevant training to ensure political security and stability; integrate the strengths of various centers and promote the implementation of the establishment of moral people. Taking the "Secretary Project" - "Dandelion Project" as the carrier, highlighting the professional characteristics of "science and technology + humanities", ideology and politics, aesthetic education, sports and other disciplines, spreading the spirit of science, humanities, art, and sports, constantly innovating forms, enriching spiritual connotations, and polishing characteristic activity brands; giving play to the pioneering role of party members and teachers, and promoting the effective integration of party building and business. Professor Li Fengliang's "Exploration of the Philosophical Context of General Secretary Xi Jinping's Discourse on National Cultural Security" and Professor Yang He's "Philosophical Thinking on" The World Is in a Great Change Unprecedented in a Hundred Years "have had an important impact on the field of party building research. Professor Liu Hui published" How Red Music Gets Red "in the Guangming Daily, spreading the red voice from a professional perspective. In 2022, various party branches under the Party Committee of the College won multiple honors. The Party Branch of the Thinking and Politics Center was awarded the first batch of" Double Creation "work model branches in the new era (15 branches in the whole school), and the Party Branch of the Sports Center was awarded the first batch of" Double Leaders "Teachers Party Branch Secretary Studio (6 branches in the whole school).

First-class universities of science and technology must have first-class general education, and the cultivation of innovative talents cannot be separated from the cultivation of first-class comprehensive quality. The College of Humanities and Social Sciences offers an average of more than 200 general courses of various types to the whole school every year, with a total of more than 500 shifts, and the number of students who choose courses has reached 12,000 per year. Covering undergraduate and graduate students throughout the university, it basically meets the needs of students for liberal arts courses and language education. The College focuses on innovative curriculum teaching models. For example, the Humanities Center has opened an "article clinic". The teachers of the center use their spare time to volunteer to answer questions for students and solve difficulties encountered by students in the process of writing and creation. The Language Center innovates the gradual teaching concept of the three layers of foreign language teaching and service system with unique characteristics, and progresses "English as a foreign language", "English as an academic language", and "English as a teaching language" layers, forming a whole chain of foreign language education. "Nanke English" has become a shining business card for school teaching.

2022 School Games

After continuous exploration and practice, a series of physical education courses and education systems with southern characteristics have been formed, including: "undergraduate four-year physical education" and "graduate through training" implementation plan, that is, undergraduate physical education runs through the entire process of undergraduate education and builds a "3 +1" curriculum structure; postgraduate physical education combines the characteristics of colleges, disciplines and majors to provide 10-15 elective courses with sports characteristics, and explores the combination of physical education courses with disciplines, majors and innovative personnel training. The physical education curriculum adopts a combination of procedural evaluation and outcome evaluation, focusing on the three dimensions of special skills, physical fitness monitoring, and daily exercise, and integrating the content of students' physical fitness tests and extracurricular 100 kilometers into the curriculum evaluation system. Actively explore the modular curriculum and layered teaching reform, promote the evaluation of the "two-track system" curriculum, and promote the construction of 1-2 textbooks and 4-5 MOOC-featured high-quality courses, so that students can truly master 1-2 special sports technologies and skills during their stay at the university.

Hold an academic seminar on "Characteristic Liberal Arts General Education and Innovation Talent Training"

After several years of efforts, the current development of general education in the College has gradually transformed and upgraded from the quantity coverage of "Version 1.0" to the quality improvement of "Version 2.0". In order to create the liberal arts general education version 2.0, four general education seminars were held this year. On May 15, 2022, the College held an academic seminar on "Characteristic Liberal Arts General Education and Innovative Talent Training", attended by more than 110 school leaders, relevant leaders and faculty members, which set the direction for the liberal arts general education, and also opened the curtain for the reform and innovation of general education in schools. On September 29, October 20, and November 24, the General Education Working Group focused on topics such as the optimization of the general education system and quality improvement, which laid a solid foundation for the upgrading of the 2.0 version of general education. The Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences will integrate its strengths, continue its efforts, make long-term contributions, support the development of innovative talents through high-quality and distinctive liberal arts general education, and contribute to the realization of our "335" development goals.

The construction of the new liberal arts has achieved initial results, and the academic influence has increased rapidly.

In the more than three years since its establishment, under the overall promotion of the College, the construction of research institutions has achieved fruitful results, and the effects of scientific research clusters in various centers of the College have emerged. At present, the College has preliminarily built 18 research institutions with new cultural characteristics, including the Research Center for Science and Human Imagination, the Machine Writing Laboratory, the Space and Media Laboratory, the Voice Laboratory, the Cultural Heritage Laboratory, the Historical and Cultural GIS Laboratory, and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Higher Education Big Data Research Center. China's sci-fi development and industrialization trend, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area youth innovation culture, archaeological ceramic specimen database, SUSTech research and more than a dozen new cultural and characteristic studies have been carried out one after another. The Higher Education Research Center "SUSTech Research" conducts research on related topics such as the cultivation of top-notch innovative talents in schools and the collaborative education between colleges and colleges, and has become the primary position for internal research in schools. "New research university research" is widely spread. The Future Education Research Center focuses on the development of basic education. In May 2022, it released the "Future Education Research Center 2022 Research Guide" to clarify the ten research directions and form an educational influence with Shenzhen characteristics in the Chinese basic education community.

The Social Science Center "Cultural Heritage Research Center", the Humanities Center "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Science and Technology Humanities and Innovation Culture Research Center" and the "Southern University of Science and Technology Global Urban Civilization Model Research Institute" have been approved as the key research bases of humanities and social sciences in Shenzhen. The "Science and Human Imagination Research Center" and the "Archaeological Ceramic Specimen Database Exhibition Hall" have been approved as the popularization bases of social sciences in Guangdong Province, helping our university's new cultural construction develop rapidly. On November 6, the academic seminar of the Global Urban Civilization Model Research Institute "New Forms of Human Civilization and Urban Civilization Model" was held at the school. Nearly 100 experts and scholars from home and abroad participated in online and offline discussions. The mainstream media competed reports, greatly enhancing the academic brand influence of the school.

Vertical, horizontal and international cooperation projects are organically integrated to pursue the academic goal of "cross-integration" with the characteristics of "science and technology and humanities". Since the establishment of the College, more than 110 scientific research projects have been established, including two major projects of the National Social Science Fund. The college with only 24 teaching and research sequence teachers has made it possible for everyone to have projects and individual funds. Professor Wang Xiaokui "Research on ‘Disaster Culture‘ and Resilient Society Construction from the Perspective of Public Health Security", Professor Li Lan "Construction and Dictionary Compilation of Chinese Chronicle Language Information Platform" was approved as a major project of the National Social Science Foundation; Associate Professor Wang Yu "Transboundary Water Governance under ‘Global Localization’: Knowledge, Scale and Practice" was approved as a bilateral seminar project between the National Natural Science Foundation Committee and the British Council; Professor Wang Lili "Facilities - 'Relocation‘ of Urban Rail Transit from a Social Perspective: Characterization, Mechanisms and Effects" was approved as a youth project of the National Natural Science Foundation; Professor Zhou Yongming and others participated in the "Research on the Construction and Expression of Characteristic Knowledge Graphs Integrating Spatio-temporal Characteristics", Professor Shen Hong "How Higher Education Influences the Development of Critical Thinking Abilities of College Students —— An empirical study based on the survey and evaluation of undergraduate colleges nationwide" was approved as a project on the National Natural Science Foundation; Professor Zhao Jianhua was awarded the National Social Science Fund Education Project for "Research on In-depth Interaction and Precision Evaluation of Online Teaching", Professor Liu Xu's "Research on the Effectiveness of the Governance Model of Private Universities", and Professor Jiang Fan's "Connecting Universities and Industries: Cross-border Scientific Research Cooperation and Research on Knowledge Spillover Effects of Outstanding Scientists". Since 2018, the faculty of the College has published 85 Chinese and English works, completed 3 opera works, published more than 400 academic papers and in-depth newspaper articles, and published more than 20 special research reports.

Academic Teacher Partial Writings and Works

In 2018, Professor Tang Jigen and Professor Jing Zhichun won one of the highest prizes in the field of archaeological research in China, the "Golden Ding Award". In 2019, Professor Li Fengliang was awarded the title of "Outstanding Social Scientist in Guangdong Province". Professor Wu Yan won the 2020 Thomas D. Clarison Award for Outstanding Achievement, and the long-running children's science fiction novel China Orbit won the 11th National Excellent Children's Literature Award. Liu Yang's science fiction novel "Orphans of Mars" has been adapted into a 12-episode television series, and the film is also being prepared. Professor Chen Yuehong, Professor Wu Yan and Professor Shenzhen University co-writer of the science fiction drama "Cloud Body" will be staged on the occasion of the New Year. Professor Chen Yuehong presided over and Professor Ma Zhonghong edited "Decoding Shenzhen: Research on Youth Innovation Culture in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area", which attracted the attention of Shenzhen's social science and government management system. Professor Zhou Yongming served as the editor-in-chief and Professor Wang Xiaokui as the executive editor of the "Heritage" magazine, which was selected as the "CNI Directory Collection of Social Science Literature Press (2021-2022)". Professor Li Lan's "Integration of Language Data in Chinese Chronicles" has aroused strong repercussions in the Chinese linguistics community and has been praised as a rare basic scientific research achievement for many years by domestic universities and scientific research institutions. The publication of "China Road and China Plan Research" (People's Publishing House) by Professor Yang He of the Humanities Center attracted the attention of the National Propaganda Department. Professor Li Fengliang's "Cultural Science and Technology Blue Book: Cultural Science and Technology Innovation and Development Report 2022" (Social Science Literature Press), Associate Professor Yang Guo's "Poetics and Poetics Methodology Manuscript" (Peking University Press), Professor Wu Yan's "History of Chinese Science Fiction in the 20th Century" (Peking University Press), and the Social Science Center's "Heritage" 5th and 6th series are very academic and original monographs. The English book "Education for Economic and Social Transformation in Rural China: Voices from the Field" by Assistant Professor Liu Xu of the Higher Education Center (Routledge Press, 2022.9) highlights the internationalization of SUSTech teachers. "Liu Hui Singing Songs and Ethnic Tenor Training Textbooks" (People's Music Publishing House), edited by Professor Liu Hui of the Art Center, has personal characteristics. In the new round of archaeological excavations in Sanxingdui in China, Professor Gao Dalun was invited as a front-line expert to participate in the live broadcast of the central video "Sanxingdui Excavation"; Professor Tang Jigen was invited as a guest on CCTV programs such as "Solving the Puzzle of Sanxingdui" and "Baijia Tribune". These emerging academic achievements have had a great social impact on the academic and social levels.

Give full play to the advantages of the discipline and help create a humanities campus

The high-end academic lectures of the Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences were launched in a series, which became a wonderful platform for improving the humanities of teachers and students. The College and its affiliated centers have cultivated a number of academic brands, such as the Humanities Center's "Humanities Celebrity Boutique Lecture Series", the Social Science Center's "Social Science Forum", "Fellows Salon", the Art Center's "Art and Science Lecture Hall", and the Higher Education Center's "Higher Education Innovation Lecture Hall". Nearly 100 lectures by various celebrities are held on and off campus every year, and professors of the College and domestic first-class scholars are invited to lecture. Through various lectures, practices and creations, the humanistic and artistic temperament of students is greatly enhanced.

The social science center "Tao Xiu" exhibition has been open to the public for a long time for free, providing professional explanations, and has received more than 2,000 visitors. The College participated in the "Science, Science and Science Fiction" theme exhibition, forming a unique "three disciplines" culture of SUSTech, which attracted the attention of many media reports. Professor Li Fengliang served as the editor-in-chief, and Professor Chen Yuehong served as the deputy editor-in-chief of the "100,000 high-tech why" series of popular science books, which was issued in excess of 100,000 copies. It was recommended as a national outstanding popular science work by the Shenzhen Municipal Association of Science and Technology, and won many awards such as the first prize of the third Shenzhen Popular Science Achievement Display Competition.

The late autumn evening breeze and smoothness of Pengcheng in November sparkled on the banks of the Dasha River. The "90th Anniversary Celebration of the Chinese Physical Society and the Opening Gala of the Second Cultural and Art Festival of SUSTech", co-hosted by the Art Center, was staged on the riverside stage, and more than 100 southern scientists and young artists from Shenzhen joined hands to bring literary and artistic programs such as choral singing, dance, solo singing, and choir singing. The 20-day series of activities uses singing and dancing evenings, concerts, exhibitions, drama performances, workshops and other wonderful art activities to sketch a unique "South Campus Art Illustrated Book". This is the second consecutive year that the Art Center has hosted the College Culture and Art Festival. It not only attracts the extensive participation and viewing of the teachers and students of the whole school, but also obtains extremely high artistic evaluation and attention outside the school. More than 60 mainstream media reports such as the People's Daily, Guangming Daily, Xinhua Network, China Daily Chinese Network, China Network, Southern +, Shenzhen Satellite TV, etc., have become the beautiful art scenery of our school.

Celebration of the 90th anniversary of the establishment of the Chinese Physical Society and the opening party of the second Southern University of Science and Technology Culture and Art Festival

Looking forward to the future, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences will, under the strong leadership of the school's party committee and administration, take advantage of the east wind of the school's second party congress to unite and work hard to strive to build the most "science and technology humanities" in the cluster of Chinese universities of science and technology as soon as possible. The domestic first-class and internationally renowned new liberal arts academy has become one of the benchmarks for science and technology "new liberal arts" and has made due contributions to the Southern University of Science and Technology to build a new research university with global influence.

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