As the 42nd Teachers’ Day approaches, Yan Hanping, Secretary of the CPC Yancheng Municipal Committee, and Wu Wei, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Yancheng Municipal Committee and Acting Mayor, separately visited frontline teaching staff. On behalf of the CPC Yancheng Municipal Committee and Yancheng Municipal People’s Government, they extended festive wishes and sincere greetings to all teachers and educators across the city.

On the morning of September 9, Yan Hanping visited the Yannan Hi-Tech Zone Campus of the National University Science Park of Yancheng Institute of Technology. He learned about the university’s discipline development, sci-tech platform construction and research achievement transformation. He exchanged views with teachers engaged in scientific research and delivered Teachers’ Day greetings. Yan Hanping urged the university to stay true to its founding mission of cultivating talent for the Party and the nation, target the goal of building a first-class application-oriented university nationwide, continuously deepen university-local government coordination and industry-education integration, strive to strengthen advantageous disciplines, upgrade sci-tech innovation carriers and energize innovation momentum. The university should translate more research outcomes into practical applications, nurture more high-caliber talents, and demonstrate the responsibility of higher education institutions in serving the high-quality regional development.

On the morning of September 8, Wu Wei visited Chuanchanghe Primary School, Tinghu Senior High School and Qingnian Road Junior High School. He held in-depth discussions with the staff on enabling students to gain inspiration from education, rewarding teachers for their dedication and fulfilling parents’ expectations. He stressed the need to carry forward the fine tradition of respecting knowledge and teachers, fulfill the educational mission of fostering virtue through education and promoting the all-round development of students through five types of education, steadily improve the quality of basic education and deliver education that satisfies the people. It is vital to firmly establish the education philosophy of “putting health first”, follow the laws of education, innovate educational approaches, deepen curriculum and teaching reforms, and promote students’ sound physical and mental health as well as all-round development.