On the afternoon of June 8, the SIM held a Meeting of Department and Office Directors to listen to the progress of this semester's work, the next stage's work arrangement, and opinions and suggestions on the School.

People attended the meeting were as followings:

Xingrong Fu, CPC Secretary of the SIM, Wuhan University,

Wei Lu, Dean of the SIM, Wuhan University,

and other leaders of the SIM, directors and deputy directors of departments, and office directors.

Xingrong Fu presided over the meeting.

Congjing Ran,Quan Lu,Ping Wang,Jie Xu,Min Zhang, andShengli Deng, the six department directors of the School, respectively reported the work progress of the departments in personnel training, faculty building, scientific research and social service, discussed ideas of the key work to be promoted in the next stage, and put forward the difficulties and problems that need the help of School leaders.

Yaolin Jiang, CPC Deputy Secretary of the SIM, Wuhan University, reported on the issues, such as the relationship between tutors and graduate students, employment of graduate students, school culture construction, artistic and sports activities of the SIM trade union, etc.

Qian Dai, CPC Deputy Secretary of the SIM, Wuhan University, focused on undergraduates employment, graduation thesis defense, final examination, student safety in summer vacation, scientific, technological, entrepreneurial activities and social practice.

Jiang Wu, Associate Dean of the SIM,Wuhan University, pointed out that all departments should encourage and support teachers to actively apply for national major projects and national key projects, and plan to do landmark works with visibility.

Xiaoguang Wang, Associate Dean of the SIM,Wuhan University, arranged disciplinary assessment, quality assurance of dissertations, and textbooks construction for postgraduates.

Lihong Zhou, Associate Dean of the SIM,Wuhan University, focused on standardizing the correcting examination papers, revising the curriculum schedule, and undergraduate majors assessment.

Yongqiang Sun, Associate Dean of the SIM,Wuhan University, hoped that all departments should give full play to the initiative of talent introduction and actively offer suggestions.

Wei Luaffirmed the achievements of each department in the previous stage and the efforts made for the development of the School. At the same time, he also pointed out the shortcomings of departments in promoting students' employment, improving the quality of dissertations, promoting breakthroughs in major and key projects, and introducing talents. Wei Lu put forward three requirements as follows:

Firstly, to increase pressure, all departments should earnestly enhance their sense of urgency, and in the spirit of "risking the beach" and "gnawing hard bones", they should increase self-pressure and dare to take responsibility, actively seize the commanding heights of discipline development, and strive for the upper reaches with all their might;

Secondly, to strengthen confidence. Heads of departments should take the lead in building confidence, deeply understand the development opportunities faced by disciplines in the era of big data, further strengthen the confidence of teachers and students, and actively promote discipline transformation and digital intelligence empowerment;

Thirdly, to focus. Each department should take the talent team building as the foundation, take the promotion the quality of teaching material, innovation and entrepreneurship, and the quality of dissertations as the core, and focus on strengthening the construction of think tank, academic achievement transformation, and landmark achievements, so as to push the work of the School to a new level.

Xingrong Fupointed out that the Meeting of Department and Office Directors is not only the need to strengthen communication among departments, offices and the School, but also an effective way to promote more efficient implementation of work. He reported SIM’s performance in the 2021 Wuhan University Grass-roots Party Building Debriefing Assessment, the 2021 Wuhan University Dean's Work Debriefing Assessment, open information of the SIM’s work, and the implementation plan of Party cadres' practical activities. He commented on each department's reports one by one, pointing out that each department has its own unique development advantages, but also shortcomings. He hoped that each department should actively strengthen the study of the major policies of the Party and the state, give full play to their respective strengths, strengthen mutual learning and coordination around the first-class discipline construction scheme, make progress and promotion together, and provide strength for the overall development and progress of the School.