Seminar on Development Strategies for Discipline of Pulp and Paper Engineering and First Joint-meeting of Deans were held in the School of Light Industry and Engineering, South China University of Technology
time: 2018-10-25



On October 21, seminar on Development Strategies for Discipline of Pulp and Paper Engineering and First Joint-meeting of Deans was held in the School of Light Industry and Engineering, South China University of Technology (SCUT).Deans or related head of discipline from 12 domestic universities including Sichuan University, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Shanxi University of Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology and so on gathered to discuss the future development of Pulp and Paper Engineering discipline. Qijun Yu, Vice Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of the University, Kefu Chen, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering as well as the heads of different related departments attended the seminar. Jiangong Zhang, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of School of Light Industry and Engineering hosted the seminar.

QijunYu introduced the history of development and achievements that Pulp and Paper Engineering discipline in the university made. In his speech, he presented that the traditional disciplines of Pulp and Paper Engineering are facing difficulties and bottlenecks in their development. How to promote the transformation and upgrade the paper industry, how to meet the main needs of the country are all the key topics of this meeting. He encouraged the attendances to speak freely and make valuable suggestions for the development of Pulp and Paper Engineering disciplines.  

Kefu Chen pointed out that the discipline reform is necessary, and also shared the current reform situation of the brother-universities in China. He said it is quite important for the Pulp and Paper Engineering discipline of SCUT to have changes, and suggested to promote the reform and construction of the Pulp and Paper Engineering discipline jointly with other colleges and universities. In the meeting, Yongdong Zhu, deputy director of the Development Strategy and Planning Branch pointed out that under the background of "new discipline", traditional disciplines should be transformed and upgraded, integrated with new disciplines, expanded new directions and docked with the major needs of the country. He hoped that at this conference, all of you would fully exchange, discuss development and reform plans, and jointly promote the development of light industry disciplines. The Dean of the School of Light Industry and Engineering made a report entitled "Development and reform plan of Light Industry (pulp and paper) Engineering major (Discipline)".

At the subsequent seminar, delegates put forward their own views, ideas and methods in the aspects of personnel training, evaluation system construction, faculty building and engineering practice ability training of pulp and paper engineering discipline under the new situation from different perspectives and levels. They also fully exchanged and discussed how to solve the enrollment dilemma of pulp and paper industry and promoted the sharing of professional practice and training bases. It was agreed that the seminar provided a good platform for exchange and promoted the exchange, learning and cooperation of universities in the field of pulp and paper engineering.

In the meeting, South China University of Science and Technology put forward “the Initiative of Establishing the Joint Meeting of the Deans of National Pulp and Paper Engineering Disciplines”. Based on the principle of "win-win cooperation, collective efforts and voluntary participation", it proposed to convene a joint meeting of the deans of National Pulp and paper engineering disciplines every year to strengthen further the internal links among pulp and paper engineering disciplines in universities and improve the hierarchical structure of disciplines. Accelerate the cultivation of disciplinary growth points, provide impetus for the development of disciplines, promote the long-term development strategy of pulp and paper engineering disciplines of "specialization", "superiority" and "integration", constantly improve the construction level of pulp and paper engineering disciplines, and meet the new requirements of the new era. The initiative received unanimous response and support from the experts participating in the meeting.