On November 8, 2019, the launch ceremony of Innovative Education Week with the theme of “Integration of Science and Education, Combination of Production and Education” in Shaanxi Province was held at Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU).

This initiative was raised by the Office of the Shaanxi Provincial Committee of Military and Civil Development, jointly organized by the Graduate School of Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Northwest A&F University, Northwest University and Xidian University. The leaders of the relevant units attended the launch ceremony.

Innovative Education Week is to promote the innovation and entrepreneurship capacities of the colleges in Shaanxi, aiming to shape an innovative atmosphere, speeding up the integration of science and education, finally realizing the popularization of scientific and technological achievements.

Wan Xiaopeng, deputy secretary of NPU, expressed his warm welcome to the guests, then he made an introduction to the NPU’s current situation about the integration of science and education, the combination of production and education, as well as the students’ innovation and entrepreneurship spirit. He pointed out that students’ innovative enthusiasm will be cheered up through this activity, and new strength will be injected in to promote the integration of science and education in Shaanxi, in addition, its development potential will be enriched.

Li Jianjun, chief engineer of the Provincial Committee of Military and Civil Development, in his speech, he said, Shaanxi is a major province of education as well as a leading province of national defense. The theme of this Innovation Education Week is “Integration of Science and Education, Combination of Production and Education”. It shows the innovative development concept in talent training------integrating education with research, promoting education with research, relying on scientific research, and making a combination with industry, which is of great significance.

The atmosphere of the launch ceremony was pleasant, the excellent innovation team from NPU demonstrated their achievements and shared the experience. The brilliant performances from different teams won the applause of the audience. The outstanding student representatives, Chen Boyu, Zhu Jiannan, Xu Weijie and Zongjia, combined with their own experience of participating in the innovation activities, shared the story with the students present, which aroused the students’ resonance.

Team Performance

Achievement Display

Visiting and Communion

As one of the activities of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Culture Month of NPU, Innovative Education Week is centered on the theme of in-depth integration of innovative education, scientific research and industry. It includes the launching ceremony, innovation and entrepreneurship culture performance, innovation culture into the middle school campus and enterprise cultural exchanges, etc.

The integration of science and education, the combination of production and education will effectively link the resources of education, scientific research and industry, which is an important way to improve the ability of talent training and social services. For a long time, NPU attaches great importance to the integration of science and education as well as the synergy between university and enterprises in the process of postgraduate training. It gives full play to its distinctive advantages and aims at the major needs of national defense and national economy. It makes an extensive cooperation with major military industrial groups and research institutes to train talents. In-depth cooperation was forged in the field of talent training, scientific research and industrialization, the reform of academic postgraduate training system was pushed forward through the integration of science and education, the training system of professional postgraduate students made progress with the integration of production and education. A large number of outstanding talents for the national defense and national economic construction were nurtured in NPU.