Nanjing University: Secretary Tan Tianniu and Liu Kang, President of Jiangsu Branch of Xinhua News Agency, Discuss Enhancing Cooperation and Exchanges
On May 22, Liu Kang, President and Party Secretary of Jiangsu Branch of Xinhua News Agency, led a team to visit our school to investigate and discuss matters related to in-depth cooperation between school media. Tan Tianniu, Secretary of the Party Committee of Nanjing University and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, met with the visiting delegation.
On behalf of the school, Tan Tianniu expressed warm welcome and sincere gratitude to Liu Kang and his delegation. The two sides had a cordial conversation, reviewed the previous exchanges and interactions, and had a lively exchange on topics such as ideological and political education, international communication, talent training, and cooperative development prospects.
Tan Tianniu emphasized that this year marks the 10th anniversary of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions to build the “first Nanjing University” and the 2nd anniversary of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important reply to young scholars who returned from studying abroad. This month is the 122nd anniversary of Nanjing University. The exchanges and discussions between the two sides on deepening cooperation at this time are of unique value and significance. Nanjing University has a long history and fruitful educational achievements. It has rich resources and a large number of stories to be developed and told. The suggestions for deepening cooperation put forward by the Jiangsu Branch of Xinhua News Agency meet the needs of Nanjing University and meet the wishes of both parties.
Tan Tianniu pointed out that he hopes that through the pragmatic cooperation between the two sides, Nanjing University’s national recognition, social reputation, international recognition, and accuracy of advice will be further enhanced, so that the landmark innovative achievements that serve the country’s major strategies can be promptly integrated into the think tank platform that provides important reference for the Party Central Committee’s governance. In the development and construction of ideological and political courses, a “big voice” that is not only pleasing to the ears and eyes, but also to the mind and heart can be made, telling a “big story” that is politically high, deep in content, broad in coverage, and powerful in action.
Tan Tianniu expressed his hope that both sides will give full play to their respective advantages, achieve two-way empowerment, seize development opportunities, intensify actions, take cooperation to a new level, work together to meet the challenges of a complex public opinion environment, contribute to fully supporting Jiangsu’s new practice of Chinese-style modernization, work hard to do a good job in propaganda, ideology and culture in the new era and new journey, and serve the “big things of the country.”
Liu Kang introduced the work positioning and business areas of the Jiangsu Branch of Xinhua News Agency, and expressed the intention to carry out in-depth cooperation with Nanjing University, including jointly building a characteristic ideological and political education practice base, jointly building an international communication center, jointly building a media integration center of Nanjing University, jointly building a think tank platform and an all-media talent training and production-education integration platform, etc. He said that Xinhua News Agency will be based on its authoritative position, profound accumulation and strong mechanism at the publicity level, benchmark General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions on building the “first Nanjing University”, and actively publicize Nanjing University’s breakthrough achievements in science and technology and humanities; focus on the fundamental educational issues of “what kind of people to cultivate, how to cultivate people, and for whom to cultivate people”, and report on Nanjing University’s talent cultivation results of innovating the education ecology and cultivating the soil for education; rely on Xinhua News Agency’s external communication advantages to shape the international image of Nanjing University, and make Nanjing University a starting point for telling Chinese stories and presenting Chinese weather; strengthen think tank cooperation, integrate Xinhua News Agency’s strong news collection capabilities and Nanjing University’s outstanding advantages in academic research, and contribute more forward-looking, leading and targeted think tank results.
Chen Yunsong, deputy secretary of the Nanjing University Party Committee and director of the school office, said that for a long time, Xinhua News Agency Jiangsu Branch has fully played the important role of authoritative media and fully supported Nanjing University’s propaganda, ideology and culture work. He hoped that in the next stage of cooperation, Xinhua News Agency Jiangsu Branch will fully assist Nanjing University in building the “first Nanjing University” and studying and implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important reply letter and other major measures and achievements. He pointed out that he hoped that through the pragmatic cooperation between the two sides, fruitful results could be achieved in talent training, international communication, think tank construction, and the construction of modern Chinese civilization, providing important support for telling the stories of Nanjing University, Jiangsu, and China.
At the seminar, representatives from both sides conducted in-depth exchanges on deepening cooperation in areas such as ideological and political course design, publicity of scientific research results, international communication, and talent training.
Wang Shengzhi, deputy director and member of the Party Leadership Group of the Jiangsu Branch of Xinhua News Agency, and responsible persons from relevant departments; responsible persons from the Propaganda Department of the Party Committee of Nanjing University, Undergraduate College, Youth League Committee, School of Marxism, School of Journalism and Communication, School of Foreign Languages and other departments and colleges participated in the investigation and discussion.