Nandu News Recently, at the beginning of the school year, Guangdong University of Technology held a meeting to implement the spirit of the province's high-quality development conference and a 2026 work meeting. It comprehensively summarized past work and sounded the clarion call for Guangdong University to start the "15th Five-Year Plan" and win the decisive victory in "reaching the first-class".
"We have independently trained Academician Chen Xin of the Chinese Academy of Engineering; added 4 new ESI top 1% disciplines and 2 ESI Among the top 1‰ disciplines, engineering has entered 0.27‰; the School of Ecology, Environment and Oceanography and the Smart Marine Science and Engineering Research Institute have been established as a whole to assist in the construction of 'New Guangdong on the Sea'…" Bai Jiangang, secretary of the school party committee, said in his speech that in the past year, the cadres, teachers and students have worked together to overcome difficulties and work hard, and the school has achieved gratifying achievements and many highlights.
Bai Jiangang emphasized that we must deeply grasp the opportunities of the current situation and strive to promote the school to achieve the goal of "becoming a first-class". The construction of "strengthening the first-class" should be considered in the strategy of building a strong country in education and making the province strong in education, planned in the world-class Bay Area urban agglomeration, promoted in the new journey of high-quality development in Guangdong, and gained momentum in the start of Guangdong's "15th Five-Year Plan".
To this end, it is necessary to consolidate the foundation and cultivate talents, carry out high-standard learning and education to establish and practice a correct view of political performance, meet strict requirements for the new round of provincial party committee inspections, and lead the high-quality development of the school with a correct view of political performance; it is necessary to bravely climb to the top, compile the "15th Five-Year Plan" development plan with high quality, strengthen the construction of discipline connotation, focus on major national needs, promote scientific research innovation, and tackle the core tasks of "double first-class" construction We must be determined to reform, launch and promote the "Talent Construction Year", "System Construction Year" and "Basic Construction Year" to stimulate the endogenous motivation for running schools and running schools; we must improve quality and efficiency, deepen campus cultural construction and social services, and further optimize the new ecology of high-quality development of schools; we must move forward steadily, deepen sources of income and reduce expenditures, maintain the overall safety and stability of the campus, and consolidate the support for running and running schools.
Qiu Xueqing, deputy secretary of the school’s party committee and principal, pointed out in the work report that in 2025, the school’s multiple school-running indicators will double at a rapid rate, the school-running vitality will continue to burst, the development trend will become increasingly prominent, social influence and international competitiveness will continue to increase, and Guangzhou University will write a record of surpassing and catching up. "Now, we are more confident and more confident, and Guangzhou Engineering is fully prepared to hit the 'double first-class'!"
Qiu Xueqing made arrangements for the key development tasks of the school in 2026: comprehensively launching the "115" peak-climbing project, which is an outstanding talent training plan, a first-class discipline construction plan, and five innovation transformation platform support plans. Focus on the "eight major tasks" and promote the construction of high-level innovative universities to a new level.
Interview and writing: Nandu N video reporter Sun Xiaopeng, correspondent Du Qing, Li Chengyao, Pei Chushi, Wu Yueyue
