(Correspondent: Zhang Wei) On April 26th, the fourth session of Nankai Teachers' Moral Lecture was held in the Provincial Body Building of the main campus. The lecture was delivered by the winner of Nankai University Lifetime Achievement Award for Education and Teaching in 2020, Nankai University Chair Professor PANG Jinju with the topic of Enhance the sense of responsibility and mission and strive to be a high-quality people's teacher in the new era. Liang Qi, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of the university, presided over the activity.

Liang Qi pointed out that since the 18th National Congress of the Party, General Secretary Xi Jinping, standing at the strategic height of achieving the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, has brought the ideological and political work of teachers to an unprecedented height. He hoped that we will study and implement the important remarks of General Secretary Xi Jinping on education and the important speech of General Secretary Xi Jinping on his inspection of Nankai University, effectively promote the implementation of teacher morality and achieve effective results, inherit the glorious tradition of Nankai education and teaching in the front-line work of teaching and research, and inculcate and lead students to become the talents of the times and the pillars of the country with the power of excellent example.

What is education? What is a university? What is a teacher? PANG Jinju introduced the theme report with three questions, systematically sorted out and expounded the important discourse of General Secretary Xi Jinping on education and studied with everyone the important speech delivered by General Secretary Xi Jinping during his visit to Tsinghua University. He emphasized that we should study and implement the important speech of general secretary, understand and grasp the profound connotation of world class university with Chinese characteristics, fully implement the fundamental task of establishing moral education, and cultivate socialist builders and successors with comprehensive development of moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and labor.

Teachers are the backbone of education work, and the construction of faculty is the cornerstone of higher education development. PANG Jinju pointed out that it is proud and glorious to be a teacher of Nankai University, but at the same time it is also a great responsibility and a difficult mission, to stand to the height of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation in the new era, to understand the importance of education, the sacred mission of teachers, to enhance the sense of responsibility and mission, to live up to the expectations of the party and the country and the people.

Shen Limei, Secretary of the Party Committee of the College of Economics, Gao Qi and Sun Jingyu, Deputy Secretaries of the Party Committee, and some teachers' representatives attended the meeting.