On January 17, 2025, Prof. Fang Yu was invited to Fuping Executive Leadership Academy to deliver a special report titled “Innovation-driven Development Calling for Future-oriented Education and Teachers” for the participants of the seminar on “Learning and Implementing the Spirit of the National Education Conference and Enhancing Political Ability” organized by Weinan Normal University.

Fang Yu said in the report that the construction of an innovative country requires the sustainable development of science and the continuous progress of technology, which requires that we need to pay attention to basic research. Major breakthroughs in basic research depend on the interest and persistence of individual scientists, and the emergence of such scientists requires a culture of tolerance for individuality and the guidance of school education. Therefore, attaching importance to the construction of inclusive culture and the expansion of students’ personalized growth space are of great significance to the cultivation of outstanding talents with lofty aspirations and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The emergence of artificial intelligence will make education face unprecedented challenges, and the mode of education and the way of learning will face changes.

Du Shouping, chairman of the Shaanxi Federation of Enterprise Science and Technology Associations, former deputy secretary-general of Shaanxi provincial Party Committee, and Qin Fen, deputy director of the federation’s service center, attended the report.

Before the report, Mr. Zhang Shouhua, secretary of the Party Committee and president of Weinan Normal University, met with Fang Yu and Du Shouping.