Firmly take the "red education road" of higher education with Chinese characteristics"

There is a passage in the book "A Brief History of the Communist Party of China", "The Yan'an Academy of Natural Sciences, founded in September 1940, is the first specialized institution in the history of the party to carry out natural science teaching and research". The Yan'an Academy of Natural Sciences mentioned here is the predecessor of Beijing Institute of Technology today. In 1952, the school was ordered to build the first national defense industry academy in New China, and assumed the glorious responsibility of cultivating red national defense engineers, which created the school's "military soul" of the times. The red gene of "Yan'an Root, Military Soul" has been passed down from generation to generation, forming the unique spiritual temperament and cultural core of Beijing Institute of Technology. The 80-year history of Beijing Institute of Technology is precisely the process of inheriting the red gene of "Yan'an Root, Military Soul", witnessing and recording the party's vivid practice of establishing and leading higher education with Chinese characteristics, and taking root in China to build a world The "red education road" of first-class universities has left a unique "Beijing Institute of Technology" mark in the century-old party history. In the study and education of party history, Beijing Institute of Technology will learn a hundred years of party history, know the history of the red school, educate new people of the era, and do first-class careers, inherit and carry forward the basic experience and fine traditions of the "red education road", and continue to promote education High-quality development.

Educate people for the party and the country, and strive to cultivate red and professional talents.

When China's War of Resistance against Japan entered the "stalemate stage", in order to promote industrial production and economic construction in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border region, directly serve the needs of the War of Resistance against Japan, and train its own scientific and technological personnel, the Communist Party of China showed great foresight and decided to establish the Academy of Natural Sciences under extremely difficult conditions. The first science and engineering university founded by the Communist Party of China, under the direct care of Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De and other leading comrades, implemented the Party Central Committee's school-running policy and aimed at the talent training goal of "revolutionary people and business experts". During the five years of running a school in Yan'an, nearly 500 graduates were trained, and most of them grew into experts and leading cadres on all fronts in New China. This period is the initial formation and practice of the guiding ideology of the party's founding and leading higher education, which has left a strong mark in the history of the party.

Looking back on the arduous struggle that accompanied the party's cause, it has always been the school's unwavering mission and responsibility to educate the party and the country. Beijing Institute of Technology inherits the red gene, takes the cultivation of red and professional talents as its first mission, closely revolves around the fundamental task of establishing morality and cultivating people, and strives to cultivate new people of the times who take on the great task of national rejuvenation. First, we should adhere to the principle of educating people and moral education first, and build a solid ideological foundation for the ideals and beliefs of teachers and students. The school puts the ideological background of teachers and students and tempering their excellent ideological and political qualities in the first place, and strives to give full play to the soul-casting and educating role of the red gene of "Yan'an Root, Military Soul", and lead teachers and students to listen to and follow the party. Take the red school history education as the "first lesson in school", deeply integrate into the classroom teaching of ideological and political courses, insist on organizing students to go to the old school site to carry out "learning history" practical activities every year, and organize new teachers to go to Yan'an to carry out the "root-seeking plan". In line with "seeing people, seeing things and seeing details", we will vigorously build an "infiltrating" educational environment and promote the construction of campus cultural space with red-based connotations. A number of cultural landscapes, such as the New School History Museum, Yan 'an Stone, Xu Teri Bronze Statue, National Defense Culture Theme Square, Beihu School History Trail, show the strong character of higher education institutions from the revolutionary holy land through time and space. The second is to strengthen the ability to focus on all-round development, and constantly improve the high-level personnel training system. The school continues to establish and improve the trinity talent training model of "value shaping, knowledge development, and practical ability", and implements talent training reforms centered on large-scale training, large-scale management and college-based education, and strives to improve the quality of talent training. We will carry out the comprehensive reform of "three full education", promote the integration and interaction of ideological and political courses and curriculum ideological and political education, in and out of class, in and out of school, online and offline education resources, improve the integrated education mechanism, and deepen the all-round education pattern of the whole staff and the whole process. The third is to pay attention to value guidance, service dedication, and support students to make contributions to the industries most needed by the motherland. The school guides students to have the "big man of the country" in education and guides them to establish a correct outlook on talent and employment, and closely links personal growth and development with the prosperity of the country, national rejuvenation, and people's happiness, so that the youth dream can be integrated into the Chinese dream. Since 2018, the theme education activities of "taking on the great responsibility of rejuvenation and being a newcomer of the times" have been organized for all students in successive years. Lead 9 colleges and universities born in Yan 'an to set up the "Yanhe Alliance", establish a red education base, and explore a new paradigm of collaborative education. The number of graduates employed in key industries and key areas of the country accounted for 65%, and the proportion of employment in the grassroots and western regions has increased year after year. The light of youth shines in the places where the motherland needs it most.

To promote learning, to be strong, to be driven by innovation, and to persist in serving the overall situation of the Party and the country.

During the Yan'an period, under the vigorous advocacy of the Party Central Committee for the development of natural sciences, the Academy of Natural Sciences grew rapidly and closely served the Anti-Japanese War and the construction of the border region in terms of personnel training, production and scientific research. Since then, although it has experienced the baptism of war, the school has insisted on taking the responsibility of building a strong country. From the beginning of the establishment of the school, the departments of machinery, chemical engineering, and agriculture, to the rapid development after the founding of New China, covering aviation, machinery, automobiles, internal combustion engines, and iron and steel. A new type of socialist heavy industry university with relatively complete professional settings in metallurgy, mining and other disciplines. In 1952, the school resolutely obeyed the needs of the party and the country, and mobilized capable forces and superior disciplines to support the construction of Beijing Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Central South Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, and Beijing Institute of Iron and Steel, which contributed to the development of higher education in New China. Since then, in various historical periods, the school closely connected with the party and the country urgently needed to develop education. "The banner of the party is the direction of struggle" and "the country is the largest", which has become a vivid portrayal of the school's insistence on serving the overall situation.

Looking back on the development process of sharing the same breath and destiny with the party and the country, striving to conquer the key technologies of the card neck and strive to achieve scientific and technological self-reliance has always been the lofty cause that the school adheres. Beijing Institute of Technology inherits the red gene, takes serving the overall situation of the party and the country as the highest pursuit, and fulfills the mission of the socialist university with Chinese characteristics with the practical action of fully serving the "four aspects. The first is to focus on pooling talents as the first resource and build a team of high-quality teachers. The school adheres to the "primary requirement" and "first standard" of good teacher ethics, strengthens and improves teachers' ideological and political work, and drives teachers to be a model for students to learn, do things, and behave. Actively build a global talent selection system and a good talent growth ecology, strive to improve the professional level of teachers, guide teachers to study real problems, devote themselves to solving practical problems, and write scientific and technological papers on the motherland down-to-earth. The second is to strengthen the discipline first traction, the establishment of heavy cross-disciplinary professional system. Based on the long-term foundation of running a school and guided by the major strategy of serving the country, the school has promoted the in-depth integration of disciplines and the innovative development of traditional superior disciplines, laid out a number of emerging disciplines, and gradually formed a discipline development system of "strong leadership of superior engineering disciplines, deep integration of characteristic sciences, thick details of fine arts, and cross-cutting new bureau. The quality and efficiency of discipline construction have been improved, the school's school scale, training quality, and service capabilities have continued to rise, and the power to transform scientific research advantages into service contribution advantages has become stronger. The third is to strengthen the first driving force of innovation and improve the high-level scientific and technological innovation system. The school has carried forward the fine tradition of "thinking about what the country thinks, anxious about what the country needs, and responding to the needs of the country" since the Yan'an period, aiming at the frontiers and key areas of science and technology, and striving to overcome the "stuck neck" technical problems, creating new China's science and technology Many "firsts" in history have represented the national level in several fields and accumulated obvious advantages. In all previous military parades, the number and depth of participation in equipment development ranked first in colleges and universities in the country.

Do not forget your initiative mind, Brave Mission, Accelerate Construction of World-Class University

"What kind of university to run and how to run a university well" is a question that the Communist Party of China has been exploring since the beginning of its leadership and establishment of higher education with Chinese characteristics. The Academy of Natural Sciences was built in accordance with first-class standards, bringing together the highest-level scientific and technological elites in the Border region at that time, as well as overseas experts and leaders in various fields. the training objectives, department settings, teaching plans, curriculum arrangements, educational methods and so on are all in the forefront, creating a precedent for the party to set up higher education in science and engineering. It can be said that in the various historical periods of the Beijing Institute of Technology, it has always aimed at first-class goals, adhered to first-class standards, and made first-class contributions. This is a vivid epitome of the party's establishment and leadership of higher education to adhere to Chinese characteristics and strive to be world-class.

Looking back on the development process of the same direction as the higher education of New China, no matter what kind of ups and downs it encounters, not forgetting the original intention and determined to be first-class has always been the school's unremitting pursuit. Beijing Institute of Technology inherits the red gene, takes speeding up the construction of a world-class university as the responsibility of the times, and promotes the "red education road" to become wider and wider. The first is to persist in taking the party's political construction as the command, and to put the party's leadership and party building throughout the whole process of running a school. The school party committee earnestly fulfills the main responsibility of governing the party and running the school, and continues to create a "clean political ecology, an academic ecology that advocates truth, and a harmonious and beautiful learning ecology", and leads the high-quality development of education with high-quality party building. Strengthen the "four consciousnesses", strengthen the "four self-confidence", achieve the "two safeguards", and keep in mind the "big of the country", consciously be a firm believer and faithful practitioner of Xi Jinping's new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics. The second is to summarize, enrich and expand the profound connotation of the "red education road" and deepen the construction plan of first-class universities. Taking the 80th anniversary of the founding of the school as an opportunity, the party committee of the school organized a special study on the "Red Education Road-the Road of the Communist Party of China to Found and Lead Higher Education with Chinese Characteristics", held a "Red Education Road" higher education forum, and deeply explored the school's different historical periods. The basic experience of running schools and educating people, summarizing and refining the basic connotation, main characteristics, unique advantages, and practical paths of the "Red Education Road, it provides reference for promoting the construction of world-class universities with Chinese characteristics in the new era. The third is to fully activate the endogenous motivation of cadres, teachers and students, and build a universal consensus and strong synergy to strive for first-class. The school party committee insists on respecting the dominant position of teachers and students, respecting the pioneering spirit of the grassroots, focusing on deepening the reform of the two-level management system of the school, promoting the downward shift of the management focus, continuing to improve the modern university governance system, and striving to release the innovative vitality of teachers and students. At the same time, vigorously promote the cultural construction of first-class universities, and constantly gather the source power of ideals and beliefs of teachers and students, the cohesion of unity, the willpower of hard work, and the internal drive to create first-class.

Source: Learning Times