21 March 2018
(SMEC survey and research group carrying out work on-site)
(Survey and research meeting in progress)
On the afternoon of 20 March, Mr Guo Weilu, Deputy Director-General of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission (SMEC) and party visited the Shanghai Theatre Academy (STA) as part of the 6th round of survey and research within the education system of Shanghai. The survey and research group was comprised of the persons-in-charge from the relevant functional departments of SMEC. STA leaders, including Mr Lou Wei, Mr Huang Changyong, Mr Tang Litu, Mr Yang Yang, Mr Liu Qing and Ms Zhang Jiachun, participated in the survey and research, together with the representatives of some relevant functional offices and secondary colleges of STA.
As introduced by Deputy Director-General Mr Guo Weilu, the survey and research of this round aimed to get an in-depth understanding of the routes of education reform and development through extensive survey and research, take the issues most concerned by the general public for urgent resolution as the focal points of the survey and research, ensure that decision-making is more scientific and work is more effective, and ensure that the work of survey and research is carried in an orderly and effective manner. For issues being surveyed and researched, checklist of issues, checklist of actions, checklist of resolutions and checklist of systems would be established in an effort to make the survey and research more targeted, operational and effective.
At the meeting, President of STA Mr Huang Changyong extended the welcome and gratitude to the leaders and senior officials of SMEC on behalf of STA, and gave a report from the four aspects of the overall layout of STA’s development, comprehensive education reform, establishment of modern university system and preparation for STA’s CPC congress. In the meantime, focusing on the realty of STA’s development, he put forward the relevant suggestions with regards to the support for STA to enter into Shanghai’s program of building high level universities, transformation of scientific research achievements, performance-based remuneration system, strengthening close industry-university-research cooperation, and STA’s renovation and expansion project.
Focusing on STA’s long-term development, Chairman of STA Mr Lou Wei talked about the achievements that STA has accomplished and the issues that STA is facing in reality from the perspectives of the physical space, visual space and psychological space of STA’s development.
Deputy Director-General Mr Guo Weilu fully acknowledged STA’s achievements in the recent years and put forward constructive opinions and suggestions with regards to STA’s current work in the areas of recruitment exams, infrastructure construction and talent cultivation etc. In particular, he put forward even higher requirements and expectations on the “high school-bachelor degree articulation” that STA is currently pushing forward as an initiative of education system and mechanism reform, and hoped that it would become a model project.
