On the afternoon of June 7, the First SUEP Faculty Congress with the Seventh Meeting of Labor Union Representatives Conference (hereinafter referred to as the Double Delegation Conference) was held online via the Tencent application. Among the attendees there are 162 appointed delegates, 20 non-voting delegates and 2 invited delegates.
Presided by Li Mingfu, secretary of the Party Committee of the university, the meeting deliberated upon the agenda, the elected host with a hearing to review the working report of the proposal.
The opening ceremony, presided by Zhang Chuan, chief accountant of the university, began with the accompaniment of the national anthem. Li Hexing, deputy secretary of the Party Committee and president of Shanghai Electric Power University, delivered a working report for the year 2022 entitled Going through adversities to Seek Development for Seven Decades, and Forging Ahead to Build a High-level Local University. In his report, President Li reviewed and summarized the administrative work in 2021 from seven aspects, pointing out what needs to be improved and clarifying the six priorities which should be given in our work in 2022: First, we must strengthen the Party's overall leadership and shoulder the political responsibility of running the university; Second, we must continue to deepen the comprehensive reform and speed up the construction of governance system; Third，it’s urgent to improve the educational mechanism and improve the aptitude of the whole faculty; Fourth, the educational and teaching reform should be deepened to improve the quality of talent training; Fifth, we must focus on the essential development with unique characteristics, enhance the overall competence of running a university from multiple dimensions; Sixth, the resources used to run a university should be continuously optimized to enhance our competence to guarantee the running of education. Finally, he placed his hopes on the whole faculty, expecting them to overcome difficulties, to boost up their spirits, to take the initiative to shoulder their responsibilities, to pave the way courageously, to fulfill various tough tasks in a down-to-earth manner, and to join efforts to create a new situation for the high-quality educational development so that we will be able to welcome the successful convening of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China with remarkable results.
Zhang Chuan, chief accountant of the university, presented a report about the financial work of SUEP of the year 2021. She elaborated the financial conditions and concerned management of our university in the past year, indicating what is urgent to do about the financial management in 2022 so that the financial support will be guaranteed for the prevention and control of Covid-19 Pandemic; A comprehensive, normative, transparent, standard, scientific and restrictive budget system has to be established and an overall, full-process, and full-coverage pre-management system has to be accelerated to build up too with a deepening reform in the project library and a thorough implementation of its construction. This year the tasks in our financial work is very tough. With the mission in our mind, we hope that all the colleges and functional departments will make every effort to collaborate with one another and continue to find new sources of funding and reduce expenditure as much as possible. We must give full play to the steering role of performance-oriented in effectively allocating of the available resources, join our efforts, engage the difficulties, and strive strenuously to achieve the goal to a new round and a great leap in the prospective development of our university and build up a high-level local university with Chinese characteristics.
And then “The Work Report of Labor Union of SUEP for the Year of 2022, The Labor Union’s Censoring Report of Appropriations in 2021, and The Work Report for the Disclosure of the University Affairs in 2021, were submitted subsequently in written form for deliberation and “The Work Report on SUEP Proposals in 2021” for examination.
And The Work Report about the Completion of the Ten Practical Things of SUEP in 2021 was also informed in written form.
After the ceremony, all the representatives are to be divided into groups to conduct online deliberations and discussions and propose amendments and express their opinions in written form from June 7 to 9. This meeting is not only an exemplary practice for our university in education mode, management mode and financial planning in the Post-pandemic Era, but an innovative exploration for the present delegates to fulfill their duties to seek a high-quality development of our university.
Contributor: Cao Yeqing, Labor Union of SUEP