On 7th of June, 2018, when celebrating the 116th anniversary of the establishment of Southeast University, a science and technology work conference, inspired by General Secretary Xi Jinping’s building of a powerful country in science and technology, was held on the theme of Technology Innovation Leading the Construction of World-Class Universities at the Jiulonghu Campus. The leader of the Ministry of Education Lei Chaozi, the Secretary of the Party Committee of SEU Zuo Wei, the President of SEU Zhang Guangjun, the Vice-Chancellors Zheng Jiamao, Wu Gang, Zhou Youyong and other school leaders as well as the teacher representatives from various school units attended the meeting. Professor Liu Yanhong, Professor Meng Hong, Professor Meng Hongzhi, Professor Gong Xianghe, Professor Chen Hongbing, Professor Yu Lishen, Associate Professor Li Chuan, Associate Professor Wang Lusheng, Associate Professor Xiong Zhanglin, and research secretary Wei Wenjie attended the conference.
The school science and technology work conference is held once every seven years and it is of great significance and far-reaching impact. The theme of this conference centered on General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions on scientific and technological innovation, summarizing our university’s 12th Five-Year scientific and technological work situation, commending the unit collectives that made outstanding contributions, and planning the next steps for the direction of science and technology work and the deployment of tasks. Southeast University was built as a world-class university as soon as possible.
In the duration of conference, Law School won Collective Contribution Award for Outstanding Contributions Prize, the 2011-2017 Advanced Collective Award for Scientific and Technological Work Prize and Dean, Professor Liu Yanhong won the 2011-2017 Advanced Personal Technology Work Award.
Dean, Professor Liu Yanhong put forward several suggestions for improvement in science and technology innovation and development in our university in the afternoon conference forum: 1.increasing the talent introduction and increasing the salary of talents, 2. setting up a full-time research institute, focusing on scientific research and devoting efforts to First-class results, 3. improving the administrative mechanism, efficiency, and protecting the development of science and technology, 4. improving the school education, medical and other ancillary facilities, and effectively solving the worries of the talented teachers. Dean Liu's proposal was affirmed and valued by the school leaders, and she received the unanimous resonance and high praise from the leaders of other units attending the meeting.