Source: surging news editor: surging news of double first-class universities noted that recently, some netizens proposed to merge Chongqing University of Posts and telecommunications, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing Normal University and Southwest University of political science and law through the message board of people's network leaders to create a high-level and first-class modern engineering comprehensive university, which can be named the University of science and technology center in Western China Bazhou University of technology or Renzhi University of technology.
To this end, Chongqing Municipal Education Commission replied on April 28 that the proposal is not feasible, neither in line with the national policy requirements, nor in line with the current reality of optimizing the layout of higher education in the city.
Previously, the netizen commented that Chongqing's higher education, compared with other municipalities directly under the central government and even with neighboring sister cities of Xi'an, Wuhan and Chengdu, has a huge gap. It is mainly reflected in the fact that the quantity is fair, the quality is not high, the lack of high-level first-class universities and characteristic first-class universities, the number of second and third-class universities is large, scattered and miscellaneous, the policy funds and human resources are scattered, and the development is difficult and slow.
"The first-class university is the most shining business card of a city, the concentrated crystallization of the development of economic and social science and civilization, and the core support for the construction of talents in Chengdu Chongqing economic circle and Science Center." The above netizens suggested that we should seize the great opportunity of Chengdu Chongqing Economic Circle Construction and stimulate the potential, merge Chongqing University of Posts and telecommunications, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing Normal University and Southwest University of political science and law, which have great potential for development, to create a high-level and first-class comprehensive University of modern engineering (University of science and technology in Western China or Bazhou University of science and technology or Renren With the characteristics of information science and on the basis of mathematics and physics, the University of science and technology, with the help of medicine, industry, and law, is in harmony with the development of the municipality directly under the central government and the Chengdu Chongqing economic circle.
In response, Chongqing Municipal Education Commission replied that Chongqing municipal Party committee and municipal government attached great importance to the construction of high-level universities, and successively issued and implemented the action plan of revitalizing the city by science and education and strengthening the city by talents (2018-2020), the action plan of Chongqing Higher Education Development (2018-2022), the action plan of accelerating the development of university characteristics and promoting the construction of first-class universities and disciplines The implementation of the "opinions" and other policies will focus on promoting the "double first-class" construction of colleges and universities in the city. Meanwhile, efforts will be made to introduce well-known universities at home and abroad, such as the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, to run schools in Chongqing, promote the high-quality development of higher education in Chongqing, and improve the ability of higher education to serve economic and social development.
On April 27, Sichuan and Chongqing successfully held a joint conference on the coordinated development of education in Chengdu and Chongqing, and signed the framework agreement on the coordinated development of education in the construction of the two city economic circle in Chengdu and Chongqing. Sichuan and Chongqing will promote the establishment of Higher Education Alliance, the construction of the innovation ecosystem of colleges and universities around Chengdu and Chongqing, the construction of the Western Science City and the Yangtze River Education Innovation belt, and the construction of "two first-class" disciplines.
According to Chongqing Municipal Education Commission, at present, from the perspective of Chongqing's current situation, it is not feasible to build a science and Technology Center University in Western China (Bazhou University of science and technology or Renzhi University of science and Technology). There are two main reasons:
First, according to the relevant national policies and regulations, the merger of colleges and universities to create a comprehensive university is a highly policy setting work of colleges and universities, which is subject to the examination and approval of the Ministry of education. In the opinions on the setting up of colleges and universities during the 13th five year plan period of the Ministry of education, it is clearly proposed that colleges and universities should be guided to have a scientific positioning, each position, connotation development and characteristics, with special requirements We will resolutely correct the tendency of some colleges and universities to change their names and upgrade to comprehensive and multidisciplinary development, and effectively guide the existing colleges and universities to devote their energy and resources to the construction and connotation development of characteristic disciplines. Southwest University of political science and law, Chongqing University of Posts and telecommunications, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing Normal University and other universities have a long history of running schools, all of which have distinct characteristics of running schools and have a greater influence in the industry. On the basis of these colleges and universities, the integration of resources to build a high-level first-class modern engineering comprehensive university is not in line with the national policy requirements, nor with the current reality of optimizing the layout of higher education in the city. Second, according to the requirements of the Ministry of education for the establishment of colleges and universities, the newly established colleges and universities in various provinces and cities cannot use the words "China" in their school names.
Chongqing Municipal Commission of Education said that in the next step, it will continue to give full play to the unique advantages of existing colleges and universities and accelerate the promotion of high-level universities in the area of Chengdu Chongqing double city economic circle in accordance with the needs of the coordinated development of education in the two city economic circle and the construction of Science City in the west, in combination with the requirements of the municipal Party committee and the municipal government on the construction of "double first class" and the development plan of higher education in the city Construction: strengthen the strategic cooperation between the "double first-class" universities of the two places and the provincial and municipal governments, promote the universities of Sichuan and Chongqing to strive for more national "double first-class" disciplines, and provide strong talents and scientific and technological support for the construction of Chengdu Chongqing double city economic circle and Western Science city.