The 2021 Annual International Forum on Higher Education Was Held at Sun Yat-sen University

On June 26, the 2021 Annual International Forum on Higher Education, was held at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou both online and offline, with the theme of "Building Quality Higher Education Systems". This year's forum also set up three parallel forums of "University Presidents Forum", "Scholars Forum" and "Doctoral Candidates Forum".

Zhong Denghua, Member of CPC Leading Group and Vice Minister of Ministry of Education, P. R. C, He pointed out that the largest developing country boasts the world's largest higher education and has taken an important responsibility in creating a more open, inclusive, equitable and collaborative higher education system. At present, China has embarked on a new journey of building a socialist country in an all-round way. The need for higher education, scientific knowledge and outstanding talents is more urgent than ever before. We should adhere to serving the country as the highest pursuit, accelerate the high-quality development of higher education, and promote the continuous deepening of educational reform and improvement of the quality of development from five aspects: adhering to the socialist direction of running schools, building a high-level talent training system, being more proactive in serving the major strategic needs of the country, building a team of high-quality teachers in an all-round way, and further promoting the opening-up of high-level education. He stressed that the historical trend of opening-up and development will not change, nor will the desire to work together to meet challenges. Higher education around the world should comply with the development trend of the times, continue to promote the sharing of global higher education resources, and move towards a better future together.

Wen Guohui, Vice Chairman of Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, He said that The forum has captured the key to the new trend of higher education reform and development, accurately grasped the new development concept in the new development stage, and contributed to the promotion of high-quality development of global higher education.

Chen Chunsheng, Secretary addressed the forum, He said that Sun Yat-sen University will take the forum as an opportunity to learn and observe the concrete practices and valuable experiences of global universities in high-quality development, and jointly plan and promote the high-quality development of higher education.

Du Yubo, President of China Association of Higher Education, former Deputy Secretary of CPC Leading Group and Vice Minister of Ministry of Education, P. R. C attended the forum and delivered a keynote speech themed "Building More Diversified Quality Higher Education Systems". He pointed out that The next 15 years, especially these five years, will be a strategic period for China's modernization drive. Supporting and leading national modernization with the modernization of higher education has become the main theme of high-quality development of higher education. The high-quality higher education system we want is a system that cultivates high-level talents, a system that adapts to the needs of the country and society, a system that modernizes the governance system and capacity, a system that serves lifelong learning for all, a system that reflects equity and quality, and a system that is fully open to the outside world. To build such a higher education system, we have to start from improving the following eight systems: collaborative education system, talent training system, disciplinary specialization system, teachers' professional development system, school classification system, education evaluation system, education opening-up system, and internal governance system.

Leaders, experts and scholars from universities such as Peking University, Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, Tianjin University, Nanjing University, Beihang University, Xiamen University, South China University of Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, as well as Vice Presidents and Deputy Secretary-Generals from 24 branches of China Association of Higher Education such as Social Science Research and Management Association, Professional Committee of Medical Education, Digitalized Curriculum Resource Research Division, and Adult Education Division, attended the meeting on site. Sixty-six branches of China Association of Higher Education such as Regional Universities and Colleges Education Association, Professional Committee of Labor Education and Professional Committee of Chinese Education organized over 500 online attendees.

Ninety-eight foreign guests from 21 countries and regions, including the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Japan, Canada, Australia and Brazil, attended the conference on line.

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