The Professional Committee of Postgraduate Pedagogical Discipline for Association of Chinese Graduation Education recently convened its 2024 Annual Meeting---8th National Forum on Theoretical and Practical Construction of Graduate Education Pedagogy. The conference was held in Tianjin.

The opening ceremony was presided over by Professor Ding Xuemei, Vice President of Association of Chinese Graduation Education and Deputy Director of the Professional Committee of Postgraduate Pedagogical Discipline, as well as former Vice President of Harbin Institute of Technology. Prof. Li Haiping, Dean of Graduate School and Director of the Party Committee Graduate Work Department of HNUST, was invited to give a special talk titled “From ‘Advocate’ to ‘Effective Interventionist’: On the Role of Government in Government-Industry-Academia-Research Collaboration.”

The forum is jointly hosted by the Professional Committee of Postgraduate Pedagogical Discipline for Association of Chinese Graduation Education, the Membership Department of the Association of Chinese Graduation Education, the Journal of Graduate Education magazine, and the Academic Degrees and Graduate Education magazine. It is organized by the School of Education, Tianjin University and the Institution of Education, Tsinghua University.

(Translated by HU Zhuojun and XIE Wenjie)