Chen Baosheng said that to run higher education with China characteristics well at a new historical starting point, we need to explore and answer six questions: First, we need to answer "what flag to raise and what road to take". We should closely combine the historical process of our party's revolution, construction and reform, unswervingly adhere to the socialist direction of running schools, and run Socialism with Chinese characteristics University well. The second is to answer "What kind of mental state can achieve what kind of goals". After the reform and opening up, especially the development since the 18th CPC National Congress, China's higher education is approaching the world higher education center. It is necessary to promote the construction of world-class universities and disciplines as a whole and move toward the goal of strengthening the country through higher education. The third is to answer "What kind of people to train, for whom and how to train people". Adhere to the fundamental task of moral education, run ideological and political work through the whole process of education and teaching, and cultivate builders and successors of socialist cause with all-round development in morality, intelligence, physique and beauty. The fourth is to answer "Where do you come from, where do you go, and in what direction?" We should profoundly grasp the historical laws of the development of Chinese and foreign education, take root in China, integrate China and foreign countries, base ourselves on the times and face the future, and take the road of higher education development that suits us. The fifth is to answer "what stage to build, what drama to sing and what career to create". We should focus on reasonable positioning, create characteristics, strengthen thinking and exploration from top-level design to micro-operation, effectively enhance core competitiveness and comprehensively enhance personnel training ability. The sixth is to answer "what trees to plant, what forests to plant, and what fruits to bear". We should persistently cultivate excellent school spirit and style of study, create a good political and academic ecology, and cultivate talents with both ability and political integrity and all-round development.
Liu Wei, president of China Renmin University, said at the forum that the 80-year history of China Renmin University revealed three major propositions: First, can a university with red genes independently founded by China be built into a "world-class university with China characteristics"? Second, can China, a relatively backward developing country, become a "world-class university with China characteristics"? Third, can a university focusing on humanities and social sciences be built into a "world-class university with China characteristics"? "These three propositions are propositions that need to be constantly explored in the great practice of building a' double first-class', and we must establish firm self-confidence."
At the forum, leaders of China Renmin University, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Agricultural University, Minzu University of China and Beijing Foreign Studies University 1 1 discussed the way and experience of running a world-class university with China characteristics.