“The 3rd Macau Forum for the Internationalization of Education - Mainland-Taiwan-Hong Kong-Macau Conference on Education Reform & Modernization: Innovation and Communication”, organized by CityU and sponsored by the Macao Foundation, was inaugurated on 27 Febuary at the Ho Yin Convention Centre of CityU. Guests attending the inauguration included Director Wu Yan of the Department of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education of the PRC, Director Sou Chio Fai of the Macao Higher Education Bureau, Deputy Director Gou Renmin of the Department of Education and Youth Affairs of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Macao SAR, Vice Director Zhu Ting of the Department of Public Diplomacy and Information of the Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the PRC in the Macao SAR, Vice Chairman Zhong Yi of the Macao Foundation Executive Council, Chief Vong Iat Hang of the Division of Research and Education Reform of the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau, deputy to the National People’s Congress and member the Legislative Assembly of the Macao SAR Si Ka Lon, member of the CPPCC national committee and member the Legislative Assembly of the Macao SAR Chan Hong, President Liu Xueping of Jiangxi Provincial Education Examination Authority, Vice President Xu Shunxing of the Education Examinations Authority of Guangdong Province, Rector Shu Guang Zhang of City University of Macau, and other leaders, experts and scholars.
Director Wu Yan delivered the first keynote speech for the conference, which focused on "improving quality and promoting fairness" and described "building world-class higher education with Chinese characteristics".
Director Sou Chio Fai said in his speech that Macao attached great importance to the development of higher education and the inheritance and innovation of culture, and that the themes of the conference "Innovation and Communication" were put forward at the right time. In the future, Macao will further improve the mechanism of higher education, increase the input of resources to support the development of higher education and attract more outstanding teachers and students. Assembly member Si Ka Lon said in his speech that Macao attached great importance to the promotion of traditional culture and would continue to firmly promote cultural inheritance.
In his speech, Rector Shu Guang Zhang, on behalf of CityU, extended a warm welcome to all the leaders, experts and scholars, and expressed his deep gratitude to the Ministry of Education and the Macao Foundation for their great support. Rector Shu Guang Zhang pointed out that the conference would focus on the "Innovation and Communication" of culture and education of Mainland-Taiwan-Hong Kong-Macau from the perspective of across China and the west, across arts and science. Inheriting the essence of Macao’s higher education, with "humanistic CityU and liberal-arts CityU" as the vision, and based on the development target of the disciplines of "Humanities and Social sciences", CityU cultivates the students' professional foundation, international vision and innovation ability, combines professional education with general education, focuses on students' moral character cultivation and healthy personality development, and attaches great importance to students' professional knowledge accumulation and cultivation of their humanistic quality. The cultural inheritance and development can be achieved through talent cultivation, and the significance and role of "culture" in higher education can be deeply understood.
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Director Wu Yan pointed out in his speech that "the general development trend of international higher education has to be accurately grasped", so as to cope with the times tide of new technological revolution and industrial transformation, and to cope with the rapid changes of world higher education, and that "quality" was the theme of world higher education development. Director Wu Yan put forward that super first-class universities should return to undergraduate education. Famous universities in the United States, Britain and other countries have started to return to undergraduate education from the strategic level. To promote the development of higher education requires a profound analysis of the development situation of China's higher education, as well as the changes in the status, development stage, type and structure, stage and coordinate pattern of China's higher education in the new era.
For the new measures that have been taken this year to improve the quality and promote the fairness of China's higher education, the China's Education Modernization 2035 plan promulgated by the state pointed out that by 2035, China’s education will achieve modernization on the whole, China will become an education power, and China will be promoted to become a great country in learning, human resources and talent. China will fully implement the "Six Excellence and One Top" Plan 2.0, and vigorously develop new disciplines in engineering, medicine, liberal arts and agriculture. Finally, Director Wu Yan expressed his infinite expectations for the new development and new contribution of Macao’s higher education. Macao should grasp the historic opportunities brought by the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, closely follow the "great goal, great plan and great development" of the Greater Bay Area’s planning, and promote the development of universities in Macao towards the direction of "great feelings, great pattern and great wisdom".
The participating experts and scholars focused on the cultural construction in the new era, paid close attention to the history and culture of Macao, deeply discussed about "culture and education", "Innovation and Communication", and put forward specific insights in the field of cultural viewpoint and cultural innovation. In addition, representatives from the education examination authorities of various provinces and cities and school leaders from well-known secondary schools of Macao also attended the conference.
