Nanjing University: Institute of Geology and Geosciences Holds Expanded Meeting to Study 20th CPC Central Committee’s Third Plenary Session

In order to deeply study the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee and implement the latest decisions and arrangements of the CPC Central Committee, the Theoretical Study Center Group of the Party Committee of the School of Earth Sciences and Engineering held a study (expanded) meeting on July 22 to collectively study the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee and the Decision of the CPC Central Committee on Further Comprehensively Deepening Reform and Promoting Chinese-style Modernization, and conducted in-depth exchanges and discussions on the implementation of the implementation plan of Nanjing University’s “Striving Forward” and the specific work of the college. Lu Xiancai, member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee, Vice President, and Dean of the University, made a speech to lead the study, and Dong Ting, Secretary of the Party Committee of the College, presided over the meeting and made a speech to lead the study.

Dong Ting interpreted and conveyed the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee to the participants. She pointed out that the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee is of epoch-making significance, focusing on the study of further comprehensively deepening reform and promoting Chinese-style modernization, fully demonstrating our party’s firm determination and historical responsibility to carry out reform and opening up to the end. Studying, publicizing and implementing the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee is the primary political task at present and in the future. The Party Committee of the College will actively lead the party members and cadres of the college, all teachers and students to learn and understand the spirit of the plenary session, accurately grasp the rich connotation of the “Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Further Comprehensively Deepening Reform and Promoting Chinese-style Modernization”, and closely combine the study of the spirit of the plenary session with the current work of the college. As a “double first-class” construction discipline, the college adheres to the overall leadership of the party, closely combines the implementation of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s reply to young scholars who have returned from studying abroad at Nanjing University, adheres to reform and innovation as the theme, and promotes high-quality development as the main line, solidly promotes the implementation plan of the “Striving Action”, comprehensively improves the quality of talent training, discipline construction and social service capabilities of the college, and helps the school’s “14th Five-Year Plan” to reach a new level in the development of various undertakings.

Lu Xiancai pointed out that the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee is an important meeting of milestone significance, which has pointed out the direction and clarified the path for building a socialist modern power. General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech at the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee systematically summarized the valuable experience of comprehensively deepening reform since the reform and opening up, especially in the new era, made systematic arrangements for further comprehensively deepening reform, emphasized the coordinated promotion of the reform of the education, science and technology talent system and mechanism, and put forward clear requirements and provided fundamental guidelines for better serving and supporting Chinese-style modernization. The country attaches great importance to education, science and technology, and talents. It is not only a strategic consideration for the overall development of the country, but also a profound expectation for the mission of the higher education sector. We must carefully study and understand, thoroughly understand the spirit of the central reform, adhere to the “four aspects”, and contribute wisdom to solving major problems in national and social development and promoting reform in depth. The college will actively respond to the call of the plenary session, with a higher position, more practical measures, and greater determination, facing the world’s scientific and technological frontiers and major national needs, and make original innovations and major breakthroughs through “organized scientific research.”

The members of the Theoretical Center Group of the Party Committee of the Academy exchanged views and discussed the study and implementation of the spirit of the plenary session in light of the work in their respective fields and the implementation plan of the “Forging Ahead Action”. The participants agreed that the plenary session was inspiring and encouraging, and as educators and scientific researchers in the new era, they should thoroughly study, publicize and implement the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, think about and solve key issues in the development of disciplines, and make greater contributions to the comprehensive promotion of the “Forging Ahead Action” and the acceleration of the construction of the “First Nanjing University”.