On August 26-27, GDUT held a development strategy meeting with the theme of "Gathering Efforts to Plan for the 15th Five-Year Plan and Taking advantage of the Momentum to Leap to 'Double First-Class'" to thoroughly study and implement President Xi’s important speech at the National Education Conference. The meeting emphasized that efforts should be made to run a "better" university with comprehensive moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and labor education, concentrate on tackling problems and taking advantage of the current favorable situation.

More than 350 people, including all school leaders, middle-level cadres, and representatives of teachers, gathered together to communicate their understanding and share the vision of the school's development blueprint. The meeting aroused enthusiastic response from teachers and students, boosted our confidence and determination to build a "better" GDUT and accelerate the promotion of the school to "double first-class", and blew the charge signal of GDUT’s reform and forging ahead.
The meeting thoroughly explained the connotation requirements of a "better" GDUT, enjoyed distinctive features, outstanding advantages, outstanding contributions, happiness of teachers and students, and striving for first-class, and put forward the five-dimensional path of building a "better" university. We should persist in developing educations from five key aspects simultaneously and write a great article on "cultivating people with virtue". We should adhere to the four aspects and write a big article on "scientific research innovation". We should adhere to the integration of industry and education, and write a big article on "serving the development of new productive forces". We should adhere to systematic integration and write a big article on "striving for first-class" construction. We should adhere to deep integration and mutual promotion, writing a great article on "high-quality Party building". The meeting has pointed out the development path and injected strong energy for us to build a high-level innovative university and strive to be the "double first-class".