On April 17th, President Qiu Xueqing inspected Dongfeng Road Campus, listened to the work reports of Journal Center, School of Art and Design, International Exchange College, School of Continuing Education and other departments respectively. He inspected the laboratory construction, operation management, allocation of facilities and resources and logistics support of the campus on the spot, and solved problems on the spot, and required further deepening school-enterprise cooperation, optimizing discipline layout, improving international school-running level, and promoting the quality and efficiency of social service functions.

Qiu Xueqing fully affirmed the remarkable achievements made by various units and departments in team building, scientific and technological innovation, personnel training, management system and mechanism in recent years, and pointed out that at present, it is a crucial year to "rush to the first-class" construction. We should strengthen our confidence and work hard to push the construction of high-level innovative universities to a new level, and support the construction of a strong education province and a strong education country.
In view of the next stage of work, Qiu Xueqing emphasized that, first, we must adhere to the national strategy, aim at the needs of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area construction and Guangdong development, identify the characteristics of disciplines, continuously optimize the layout of disciplines, and strengthen the construction of interdisciplinary disciplines; Second, we must benchmark first-class, base ourselves on the academic frontier, deepen school-enterprise cooperation, further build industry-education integration platforms such as innovation research institutes, and promote the deep integration of "industrial chain, innovation chain, talent chain, and education chain"; Third, it is necessary to highlight the awareness of the overall situation, continuously improve the management system and mechanism of cooperation, integrate and optimize resource allocation, strengthen the opening of high-level education to the outside world, and further enhance the international influence; Fourth, we must strengthen scientific planning and standardize management, further condense brand characteristics, continue to increase the supply of high-quality teaching resources, and realize the value and appreciation of state-owned assets.