China News Service, Beijing, October 23 (Reporter Li Jingze) On October 23, the "Establishment of the Regional and National College of Renmin University of China and the Launch and Seminar of the China Regional and National Research Independent Knowledge System Research Alliance" was held in Beijing. At the meeting, the Regional and National School of Renmin University of China was formally established, and the China Regional and National Independent Knowledge System Alliance was simultaneously launched.
It is reported that the establishment of the regional and national colleges of Renmin University of China has attracted widespread attention from the international community. More than 70 dignitaries and scholars from 57 countries, including former Slovenian President Danilo Turk, former Egyptian Prime Minister Issam Sharaf, and former Peruvian Prime Minister Eduardo Alana Issa, sent congratulatory messages.
The China Regional National Academic Independent Knowledge System Alliance was initiated by Renmin University of China, and more than 20 universities across the country, including Peking University, Tsinghua University, and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences University, participated. The alliance will meet the major strategic needs of the party and the country, bring together inter-university and inter-disciplinary research forces, conduct collaborative research around the evolution of the world pattern, major regional and country issues and related basic theories, research methods and talent training, and promote information sharing, resource complementation and advantage integration. By deepening research collaboration and exchange of results, we will promote the formation of a disciplinary system, academic system, and discourse system that embodies China’s stance, Chinese perspective, Chinese theory, and Chinese methods, and provide a more solid knowledge foundation for national strategic research and foreign exchanges and cooperation.
Zhang Donggang, Secretary of the Party Committee of Renmin University of China, pointed out that the regional and country research of Renmin University of China can be traced back to the period of Northern Shaanxi Public School. After continuous hard work of several generations of scholars, it has laid out a comprehensive, overall, and strategic platform and basically achieved coverage of major countries and key regions around the world. This upgrade to establish regional national colleges and launch alliances is a necessary step to implement the fundamental task of cultivating people with moral integrity and accelerating the construction of first-class disciplines. It is also an initiative to respond to the major strategic needs of the party and the country and serve major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics.
At the meeting, the research report "China's Regional Country Studies and the Co-construction of a New Global Leadership System: Exploring the Path from Theory to Practice" was also released. The report is based on the background of the profound adjustment of the international power structure and the interweaving and overlapping of global challenges. It systematically explains the intrinsic connection and practical direction of China's regional and country studies and the co-construction of a new global leadership system.
In the expert discussion session, experts and scholars from domestic universities, scientific research institutions and related organizations conducted in-depth exchanges and jointly discussed new directions and new tasks for the development of regional and national studies in China.
