
On the morning of December 15th, Zhu Jian, the Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, conducted research at Hunan Institute of Technology to gain a deeper understanding of the Institute's construction and development, cultural heritage, and innovation and entrepreneurship among college students. He emphasized the need to deeply study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important statements on education and the important instructions on employment and entrepreneurship for young people including college graduates, strengthen college-government coordination and integration of industry and education, enhance policy support and service guarantees, further cultivate talent "reservoirs", create a "strong magnetic field" for talent attraction, and provide solid support for promoting the construction of regional education centers.
At the History Museum of Hunan Institute of Technology, Zhu Jian listened carefully to the introduction of the school's educational history, development route, and outstanding achievements, and expressed warm congratulations on the upcoming 50th anniversary celebration. He hoped that the Institute will take this as an opportunity to further refine its educational philosophy, deepen educational and teaching reforms, optimize the layout of disciplines and majors, and develop a talent cultivation system. We should further integrate alumni resources and fully leverage the bridging role of alumni associations in connecting graduates and alumni, promoting resource sharing, and facilitating industry university research cooperation. We should further leverage comparative advantages, continuously polish the "technology" characteristic brand, focus on regional industrial needs, deepen industry university research cooperation, continuously improve the ability and level of serving regional economic and social development, lay a more solid foundation for building a high-level applied university with distinctive characteristics and outstanding advantages, and gather stronger development forces.
Zhu Jian pointed out that efforts should be made to make breakthroughs in high-level scientific research, strive to form landmark achievements in key core technology breakthroughs, and build innovative platforms and landmark scientific research teams with industry influence. Efforts should be made to make breakthroughs in the introduction and cultivation of high-level talents, build a full chain service system of "introduction, cultivation, utilization, and retention", and cultivate a group of academic leaders and young backbone. Efforts should be made to make breakthroughs in deepening cooperation between schools and local areas, establish a long-term mechanism for supply-demand matching and achievement sharing, promote the deep integration of the education chain, talent chain, industry chain, and innovation chain, and provide solid talent and intellectual support for the in-depth promotion of the development strategy of "building the city through manufacturing and revitalizing the city through culture and tourism".
Zhu Jian and his delegation also visited the Hunan Institute of Technology Student Entrepreneurship Park, where they had cordial exchanges with student entrepreneurship teams and encouraged young entrepreneurs to seize the opportunity of "double innovation" upgrading, accurately match classroom learning with market demand, and realize personal value in Hengyang's accelerated construction of a higher-level and higher-level national regional key city and provincial sub center city. He demanded that we focus on promoting the comprehensive development of people, continuously optimizing the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem, and taking measures such as setting up special funds, optimizing the mentor database, and creating "entrepreneurship clinics", to enable young talents to dare to innovate and achieve their dreams on this hot land of Hengyang.
Leaders of the municipal party committee and government Chen Peng and Xie Hong, Secretary of the Party Committee of Hunan Institute of Technology Cao Zhiling, Deputy Secretary and President of Hunan Institute of Technology Zeng Guangsheng, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee He Jianxiong, and member of the Party Committee of Hunan Institute of Technology Yuan Qin participated in the research.