On October 30th, the School of Marxism held the second symposium of senior doctoral supervisors to discuss the construction and development of Marxist theoretical disciplines. Shang Hongbo, deputy secretary of the school’s party committee, attended the meeting. Professor Jin Huiming, a well-known Marxist theorist and member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, former deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial People’s Congress and deputy party secretary, Professor Gong Pixiang, senior doctoral supervisors, Professor Sheng Yuhua, Professor Gong Tingtai, Professor Li Yanshu, Professor Yu Liangzao, Professor Wang Xiaoxi, Professor Liu Yunlin, Professor Zhu Xiaoling, heads of relevant functional departments of the school, and the party and government team of the School of Marxism participated in the discussion.

The symposium was presided over by Li Qianjin, Secretary of the Party Committee of the School of Marxism. In his speech, Shang Hongbo expressed his gratitude to the predecessors for their care and support for the construction of Marxist disciplines, and pointed out that the school party committee conscientiously implemented a series of major decision-making arrangements for strengthening the construction of Marxist theoretical disciplines and ideological and political theory courses in colleges and universities by the Central Committee and the Ministry of Education. Always attach importance to the discipline construction of Marxist theory. He said that our school will take this symposium as an opportunity to further provide a higher platform for the development of the Marxist School in terms of policy formulation, resource protection, and institutional mechanisms, and inject strong impetus to give full play to the philosophy of Marxism. The leading role of social sciences and the supporting role of ideological and political theory courses in colleges and universities.

Wang Gang, Dean of the School of Marxism, welcomed all the experts to come and give guidance, and thank all the leaders and experts for taking the pulse of the discipline construction. He introduced in detail the achievements of the Marxist theoretical discipline construction in the past year from the aspects of college profile, subject profile, professional situation, ideological and political teaching situation, team building situation, talent training situation, and theoretical dissemination situation, and proposed the current college The main problems faced in the cultivation of teachers and the condensing of subject direction.

During the discussion session, the participating experts spoke freely and actively offered suggestions and suggestions. Everyone unanimously stated that, after the unremitting efforts of several generations, the roads have been passed down, the school's Marxist theory discipline construction has made great progress, and a deep Marxist theoretical teaching and research foundation has been accumulated. The experts at the meeting expressed their wise insights based on their own work experience, and conducted full exchanges and in-depth discussions on hot and difficult issues such as faculty, personnel allocation, team building, scientific research innovation, and characteristic condensing of Marxist theoretical disciplines.

The School of Marxism will continue to adopt the mechanism of regular expert seminars, give full play to the role of senior doctoral advisors, implement the fundamental task of Lide and foster people, help the construction of Marxist theory and disciplines to reach new heights, and make due contributions to the development of the country.