On the morning of November 17th, Ren Youqun, Director of Teacher Education Department of Ministry of Education, Director of Degree Management and Postgraduate Education Department, and Deputy Director of Academic Degrees Committee Office of State Council, and his colleagues visited our school.
    At the symposium, Yi Bing, deputy secretary of the Party Committee and president of our school, introduced Ren Youqun and his colleagues to the overall development of the school, including personnel training, teacher eaducation, discipline construction, scientific research and social services. Yi Bing said that the school's "double first-class" construction has been accelerated, the quality of first-class undergraduate construction has been improved, the level of teaching staff construction is steadily progressing, the core competitiveness of scientific research has been greatly increased, the benefits of serving local areas have become increasingly prominent, the quality of personnel training has been steadily improved, which all shows the upward trajectory of our school's development.
    Ren Youqun said that HIE should carry forward the spirit of educators, give full play to the advantages of science and education, strengthen basic research and key technology research, and further deepen cooperation in production, education and research; It is necessary to enhance our unique strength and do solid work to better serve local economic and social development; We should unswervingly follow the road of self-growth, distinguish our school from our counterparts, deepen reform, improve the quality of education and teaching, and further expand the influence of our school.
Ren Youqun and his colleagues also visited the Exhibition Hall of our school. Guo Jianguo, member of the Education Working Committee of Hunan Provincial Party Committee, member of the Party Group of Education Department and Zhou Yanxi, deputy mayor of Xiangtan Municipal People's Government, accompanied the visit.

(Reviewed by Wang Jiayi, Wang Xingzhou)