On 15 April 2023, the first plenary meeting of The National Advisory Committee on Teaching Agricultural Economic Management to Majors in Higher Education under the Ministry of Education (ACT for short) in 2023 was held in Haikou, Hainan Province. The topics of the meeting are: construction of first-class undergraduate majors in agricultural economic management, development of curriculum thinking and teaching, teachers of the Ministry of Education’s virtual teaching and research department in agricultural economics and other work of the year. The conference was hosted by the ACT and organized by the Management School of Hainan University. The participants included Tang Zhong, Director of the ACT and Professor of the School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development of Renmin University of China; Zhu Jing, Deputy Director of the ACT and Professor of the College of Economics and Management of Nanjing Agricultural University; Wei Longbao, Deputy Director of the ACT and Vice President of the China Academy for Rural Development, Zhejiang University. Qing Ping, Deputy Director of the ACT and Vice President of Huazhong Agricultural University, Wan Junyi, Professor of College of Economics and Management of South China Agricultural University, 33 members of the ACT, and 87 persons in charge of the faculties of agriculture and forestry economics of various universities attended the meeting. Prof. Wu Haitao, Dean of the SBA, and Vice Professor Deng Yuanjian, Director of the Department of Agricultural Economic Management, were invited to attend the meeting as the member of the ACT and the head of agricultural and forestry economics departments respectively.
Prof. Wu Haitao, a member of the ACT and the Dean of the SBA, reported and exchanged his views on the topic of “party building leading the construction of first-class undergraduate majors”, which was fully recognized by the experts and resonated with the participants. He highly appreciated the characteristic practice of promoting the construction of first-class undergraduate majors with party building as impetus and the outcomes achieved. At the same time, Prof. Wu also summarized the bottlenecks and confusions encountered during the construction of first-class undergraduate majors in Agriculture and Forestry Economics and Management in financial institutions, and sought solutions from the participants to further promote the high-quality development of this major.
Through full communication and discussion, the participants formed more consensus on the construction of Agriculture and Forestry Economics and Management. The universities were clearer about the direction of national first-class undergraduate majors construction, drawing on and integrating each other’s construction experience to form their own distinctive construction mode of the Agriculture and Forestry Economics and Management.
