Nanjing University Hosts Grand Award Ceremony for the Second ‘People’s Educator Wei Xinghua Economics Education Award’
On May 25, the second “People’s Educator Wei Xinghua Economics Education Award” award ceremony was held at Nanjing University. Xu Ying, member of the Standing Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee and Minister of the Provincial Party Committee Propaganda Department, Tan Zhemin, President of Nanjing University and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hong Yinxing, Director of the “People’s Educator Wei Xinghua Economics Education Award” Award Committee, Liu Wei, Director of the “People’s Educator Wei Xinghua Economics Education Award” Award Committee, Huang Guitian and Zhang Yu, members of the Award Committee, and more than 150 experts and scholars from universities and research institutions across the country attended the award ceremony.
The “People’s Educator Wei Xinghua Economics Education Award” was established to commemorate Professor Wei Xinghua, an outstanding Marxist economist and winner of the national honorary title of “People’s Educator”, and to promote the innovation and development of China’s economics education. It is awarded to Chinese citizens who have high moral character, rigorous learning, long-term work in the front line of teaching, fruitful teaching and scientific research results, and outstanding contributions in the field of economics education. It is selected once every two years, with two people each time. The award fund is initiated by the prize money of the 9th China Economic Theory Innovation Award donated by Professor Wei Xinghua and other professors, and donations from Professor Wei Xinghua’s students and all walks of life. The award work is conducted by the award committee hired by the People’s Educator Wei Xinghua Economics Education Fund Management Committee. The award committee consists of 16 economists, and Hong Yinxing and Liu Wei serve as the directors of the award committee.
The second “People’s Educator Wei Xinghua Economics Education Award” was launched in September 2023. It was nominated by members of the Marxist Theory, Theoretical Economics and Applied Economics Discipline Review Group of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee (current and past), members of the Marxist Theory Department and Economics Department of the Social Science Committee of the Ministry of Education, and members of the Teaching Guidance Committee of Economic Disciplines of the Higher Education Teaching Guidance Committee of the Ministry of Education. The award committee conducted a strict review based on the nomination list, and both professors received the highest votes. According to the voting results, Professor Wu Yifeng of Renmin University of China and Professor Wu Xuangong of Xiamen University are the winners of the second “People’s Educator Wei Xinghua Economics Education Award”.
Professor Huang Guitian presided over the award ceremony and read out the list of winners and the award speech. The second “People’s Educator Wei Xinghua Economics Education Award” was awarded to Professor Wu Yifeng of Renmin University of China and Professor Wu Xuangong of Xiamen University.
Professor Hong Yinxing and Professor Liu Wei presented award certificates to Professor Wu Yifeng and Professor Wu Xuangong respectively.
The award speech for Mr. Wu Yifeng: Mr. Wu Yifeng is a famous Marxist economist in my country and one of the first-class professors of Renmin University of China. He is honored as an economist with “three connections”: he is familiar with Marxist economics, Western economics, and the history of foreign economic thought. He has been teaching diligently for 68 years, has written many books, and has many students all over the world; he has a firm belief and is determined to seek innovation; he draws on Western learning and understands the national conditions; he is both virtuous and talented, and is willing to make contributions. He uses the basic methods of Marxism to deeply study major theoretical issues in Western economics. The Western economics textbook he presided over has nurtured several generations of students and is one of the most influential Western economics textbooks in New China. He once handed over all the prize money for the honorary title of “Beijing Labor Model” to the party organization as “special party dues”, and used the 1 million prize money of the “Wu Yuzhang Lifetime Achievement Award” to reward young scholars. It can be said that: “The mountains and clouds are vast, and the rivers are vast; the style of Mr. Wu is as high as the mountains and as long as the rivers.”
After strict review, the “People’s Educator Wei Xinghua Economics Education Award” evaluation committee decided to award Mr. Wu Yifeng the second “People’s Educator Wei Xinghua Economics Education Award”.
Award speech for Mr. Wu Xuangong: Mr. Wu Xuangong is a famous Marxist economist and educator in my country, former Party Secretary and Professor of Economics at Xiamen University. He is one of the important founders of my country’s socialist political economics textbooks. The Political Economics (Socialist Part) he edited is one of the most influential political economics textbooks in New China. He has been teaching diligently for 73 years, and his students are all over the world. He takes Marxist political economics as the basis, Chinese culture as the foundation, and national conditions as the root. He is familiar with and draws on relevant Western economic theories to explore and solve the path of China’s economic construction and reform and opening up. He is an outstanding representative of contemporary China who uses the basic standpoints, viewpoints and methods of Marxism to deeply study and analyze the theoretical issues of my country’s economic construction and reform. He has won major awards such as the National “Five One Project” Award, the First Prize of National Excellent Teaching Achievements (twice), the World Marx Economics Award, and more than ten provincial and ministerial awards, but he is always humble and calm, and continues to forge ahead. It can be said that “a half-acre square pond is full of flowing water, and time never ages the pioneers.”
After strict review, the “People’s Educator Wei Xinghua Economics Education Award” evaluation committee decided to award Mr. Wu Xuangong the second “People’s Educator Wei Xinghua Economics Education Award”.