With the correct leadership and attention of the school party committee, the work concerning students in School of Public Administration (SPA) is striving to make steps forward for student cultivation, based on inheriting and promoting its excellent traditions. The work has fully implemented the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s speech at the National Colleges and Universities Ideological and Political Work Conference and insist to “consider morality education and talents fostering as the key point, take the students' ideological and political work through the entire process of teaching to fulfill the whole-process and all-round education”. SPA always adheres to the core socialist values during the process of students ideological and political education. It regards education of ideals and beliefs as the core work, patriotism education as the focus, ideological and moral education as the base and comprehensive development of students as the goal. We hope to comprehensively cultivate our students to be “time talents” with international outlook and public feelings through this education mode.


1. Introduction of Ideological Pioneers Outstanding Party Members Growing Camp

In order to strengthen the awareness of the Party members, improve the Party members' abilities to deal with party affairs and play an exemplary role, the School of Public Administration established the Ideological Pioneers Outstanding Party Members Growing Camp. It became one of the first six demonstration bases for ideological and political education in Zhejiang University (ZJU) in December 2015. In order to thoroughly implement the Party’s education policy and the ZJU Party Committee’s requirements for party-building work, the SPA’s Party Committee decided to launch the “Red-collar Pioneer” party-building student cadres training program (referred to as the “red-collar program”) to better support the growth of youth, especially the growth of students who are cadres in party-building. This program aims to train and bring up a group of red leading students who are armed with the latest achievements of Marxism in China and have the public spirit of “taking the state-building as their duty and the truth as their destiny”. We believe this program will help ZJU take another step forward in achieving goal of being socialist university with Chinese characteristics and world-class university.


2. Wing Plan

In order to further improve students’ overall competitiveness and cultivate students’ professional qualities and social practice skills, SPA launched the “Wing Program” in June 2015. This program combined ideological and practical education together and aimed to help students establish elevated dream about their occupation plan and encourage them to fulfill their ambitions in the place where is the most develop-need area in the country. At the same time, the program gave full play to the important role of outstanding alumni and hired alumni who work in state organs and institutions to serve as “supervisor tutors” to guide and help students develop career planning, cultivate their professional awareness, have better understanding about the occupational environment. This can comprehensively enhance overall quality of students, and lay the foundation for them to successfully fit the requirements of the society after graduation. The “Wing Program” has been successfully held for four periods and has established contact with 44 alumni as supervisor tutors. The program has provided internship positions in more than 100 organizations, including national ministries and commissions, central enterprises and central public institutions. The “Wing Program” has good reputation both inside and outside Zhejiang University, and 142 students from more than 20 schools or departments in ZJU have benefited from it.


3. Qingzhi Plan

In order to thoroughly study, publicize and implement the spirit of the 19th National Congress of CCP and the spirit of the important series speeches of Xi Jinping, the SPA launched “Qingzhi Plan”. This program has close combine with the “Young Learners Learning Young Xi Jinping” practical activity in education, and uses “Xi Jinping’s Seven Years of Educated Youth” as a guide to select students to serve the primary level organizations during their summer vacation. The program is committed to guiding students from Zhejiang University to serve the people in front-line, learning the excellent characters of young Xi Jinping, including his extremely firm ideals and beliefs, patriotic feelings, love for the people, and the enterprising spirit of hard-working. It also aims to guide students to learn from the people, take the people as teachers and keep the populace concerning. During the program, students will broaden their vision and frim their awareness about overall situation, public serving and responsibility. Students will get knowledge, improve ability and make contributions during practice internship serving in primary organizations.


4. Purple Collar Plan

In the name of faith, the purple collar plan is based on the training of future leaders of party and government administration, and invites cadres whose places are above the leading roles of departments or equivalents as mentors to help students better fit the society. The program strives to guide young people become healthy leading power in the future of China who have the characters of firm faith, trustworthiness, great ambition, deep thoughts, responsibility and gratefulness.


5. ZJU Model Mayor Forum

The activities of ZJU Model Mayor Forum hope to achieve five goals: to promote the building of the core culture of SPA, “taking the world as its mission and based on the truth”; to cultivate the noble character and spiritual outlook of the students in pursuit of truth, devotion to science, and serving the people; to improve the school’s scientific research level and enhances both teachers and students’ sense of identity and cohesiveness; to make further cooperation and coodination with other high level domestic universities; and to expand the influence of “public administration” in other disciplines. The  ZJU Model Mayor Forum  has successfully held 11 sessions. In recent years, the Model Mayor Forum has developed steadily, attracting more than a dozen teams and more than 100 students on average each and every time. On November 4, 2017, the 11th ZJU Model Mayor Forum held a public defense whose theme was Characteristic Towns and new urbanization in China. The ZJU Model Mayor Forum provides a talent-show platform for university students to realize their dreams. It also makes efforts to enhance the level of cultivation of public management students. The Forum makes good explorations for improving the capabilities of government's public management services and innovation, and promoting social prosperity and development.


6. Meitan Guizhou Social Practice Base

The Communist Youth League Committee of SPA actively mobilized and seriously carried out various social practice activities. The Social Practice Base in Yongxing Middle School in Meitan County, Guizhou Province is the first one established by the School in Meitan County and was completed in 2008. In 2013, it was selected as a key support project of Zhejiang University’s social practice demonstration base and Zhejiang province’s Provincial social practice base (only two bases from ZJU were selected for the year). Every year, the School selects summer social practice teams to Meitan in Guizhou Province to do voluntary support teaching and social practice activities. The previous selected teams achieved remarkable results. They have won the title of “Excellent Team in Summer Student Social Practice Activity of Zhejiang University” for many years.


7. The same blue sky, the same dream volunteer service activity

As a brand activity of SPA, The same blue sky, the same dream has been carried out for 10 years. It established a voluntary service base in Hangzhou Yucai Primary School in 2008 (a school for migrant children). This brand activity has had a certain scale and good social reputation after 10-years running. This activity recruits more than 50 volunteers from ZJU every semester. The cumulative service time is more than 1000 hours. During the activity, volunteers and pupils are put into pairs. Volunteers go to their pair-pupils’ homes for tutoring every week. They also bring kids to experience the beauty of Zhejiang University and help them to enrich their after-school life. The volunteers also cooperate with professional associations such as psychology associations of ZJU to provide children with group counseling to improve their psychological quality, encourage the pupils to have healthy way of life, and help them achieve their dreams as the same gorgeous as common children’s. In 2017, this volunteer project won the bronze award in the Zhejiang Provincial Volunteer Service Competition.


8. Qingyang Plan

The project aims to give full play to the important role of excellent teacher resources in student cultivation in the School of Public Administration, and to guide and help the students to comprehensively enhance their competitiveness in workplace skills, student work, etc. The Qingyang Plan can help students to lay the foundation of social adaptiveness after graduation.


9. Student Sports Day

The Sports Day is the main platform for demonstrating the achievements of university’s physical education. It is also an important opportunity for the teachers and students of the universtity to work together to create a strong team and work hard. It plays an important guiding role in training teachers and students to develop good exercise habits and healthy lifestyles. The School of Public Administration actively cooperates with the specific work of the Students Sports Day, conducts extensive mobilization among the teachers and students, provides good service and guidance, and creates a positive atmosphere for the students and teachers. In the 2017 track and field meeting, the athletes fought with courage and finally achieved good results in the fourth place of the undergraduate group, which earned the honor for the School and also passed on the sports spirit to SPA students.


10. Graduate Employment Statistics

In the past four years, under the increasingly severe employment environment, the employment rate of our school has always been above 94%, the employment rate of undergraduates is over 93%, and the employment rate of postgraduates is above 97%, among which the employment rate of doctoral students has always been 100.00%. Due to outstanding achievements in employment work in our school, we won several honors, such as the second-class award for excellent employment work in ZJU.


Table 1. Students Employment Rate of SPA (2014-2017)

 

 

 

2014

2015

2016

2017

Total

97.82%

97.47%

94.81%

96.94%

Undergraduates

97.02%

96.23%

93.09%

94.58%