At the age of 63, Lin Jianhua stepped down as president of Peking University Hao Ping, former party secretary of Peking University, to take over

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On October 23, Peking University welcomed a new secretary and president.

Peking University's all-school teachers' cadre conference has just been held, and the reporter learned that the 63-year-old Lin Jianhua stepped down as the president of Peking University, and Hao Ping, the former party secretary of Peking University, succeeded Lin Jianhua as the new president.

New Secretary: Served in Beijing for many years

Qiu Pingping, who worked in Beijing for many years and was president of the Shanxi Higher People's Court last year, returned to Peking University to serve as party secretary. Previously, he taught and served at Peking University for many years.

Both Qiu's bachelor's and master's degrees are studied in the Law Department of Peking University. From 1988 to 1996, he worked at Peking University, successively serving as deputy secretary of the Youth League Committee, secretary of the Youth League Committee, and director of the Student Work Department of Peking University.

Later, Qiu Pingfeng worked in Beijing for many years, serving as deputy district governor of Chaoyang District, pinggu district governor and district party secretary, etc., starting as deputy secretary general of the municipal party committee in 2013, and as president of the Shanxi Provincial High People's Court and secretary of the party group since the beginning of last year.

New Principal: Liberal arts background

Unlike previous principals, the new principal, Hao Ping, is a liberal arts graduate. Born in 1959, he became the party secretary of Peking University at the age of 57, and this year, at the age of 59, he became the president of Peking University. From the secretary of the same university to the president, such a transfer is rare in domestic universities.

Previously, Peking University had only one school leader, Lu Ping, who had served as both party secretary and president.

From 1978 to 1982, Hao Ping studied world history at the Department of History at Peking University. After graduating, he worked at Peking University for many years, and then served as the president of Beijing Foreign Chinese University and the vice minister of education.

During his work at Peking University, Hao Ping often asked Mr. Ji Xianlin for advice, and his books "Historical Facts of the Founding of Peking University", "Sun Yat-sen's Revolution and the United States", and "Helpless Endings - Stuart Redden and China" also received guidance from Mr. Ji Xianlin many times.

In 1997, Hao Ping completed the manuscript of "From The Beijing Normal University Library to the Beijing Normal University Hall", which he hoped to publish at Peking University Press. The editors were unsure of the manuscript and hoped that Hao Ping would ask an expert to make a recommendation. Hao Ping went to ask Elder Ji for advice. A few days later, Mr. Ji's secretary called: "Hao Ping, you can make Ji Lao miserable, he has not been out of the house for three days, and he has been reading your book manuscript." You hurry up and come to Ji Lao this trip. Hao Ping quickly got on his bicycle and arrived at Ji's hometown. Mr. Ji asked Hao Ping several questions, and Hao Ping answered them one by one. Ji Xianlin also wrote a preface and changed the name of the book, called "The Historical Examination Source of the Founding of Peking University".

In June 2005, Hao Ping left Peking University to serve as president of Beijing Foreign Chinese University. Elder Ji specially inscribed a sentence from Han Yu's "Understanding of Advanced Learning" for him: "Karma is good at diligence, absurd in play; action is in thought, and destruction is in follow-up."

Lin Jianhua: Formulate a double-first-class plan for Peking University

Lin Jianhua, who stepped down as president of Peking University, was born in 1955 and is 63 years old this year.

He received both his bachelor's and doctoral degrees from Peking University and has been teaching since 1986. His research interests are in solid-state chemistry, mainly engaged in the synthesis, structure, physical and chemical properties of transition metal composite oxides, new microporous borates, rare earth-transition metal intermetallic compounds, and has served as the dean of the School of Chemistry at Peking University.

While engaged in chemical research, Lin Jianhua also participated in the management of the school, and has served as assistant to the president, provost, vice president, executive vice president and so on. After more than a decade as president of Chongqing University and Zhejiang University, he returned to Peking University in February 2015 and became president.

During his more than three years as president, Lin Jianhua advocated comprehensive reform. Peking University's double-first-class plan was introduced under his leadership, the plan proposes that Peking University should rank among the forefront of world-class universities in 2030, and become the world's top first-class university in 2048, so it will launch the "30+6+2" discipline construction layout, and will establish a diversified talent training system that integrates general education and professional education, and strive to promote students to freely change majors within the faculty and freely choose courses in the whole school.

At meetings inside and outside the school, in lectures to students, in the classrooms of middle school principals, and even in the media, Lin Jianhua repeatedly expressed his thoughts on education and expounded the reforms carried out by Peking University in order to educate people. In an article published by the People's Daily, he condensed the mission of Peking University into eight words, "keeping right and innovating and leading the future." In his eyes, "a university, spiritual culture is the most valuable wealth" and "the university is a bridge to the future" and so on.

(Source: Beijing Daily client)