54-year-old Li Xiaohua has short hair, a gaze like a torch, and she is energetic and capable. She has a youthful atmosphere, which is closely related to her long-term adherence to the front line of education and face-to-face communication with students.
As the president of the only undergraduate university in the country with ecological and environmental education as the characteristic of running schools - Hebei Environmental Engineering College , she deeply feels that the construction of ecological civilization is the fundamental plan related to the sustainable development of the Chinese nation, and cultivating environmental protection talents, spreading environmental culture, and improving the environmental quality of the whole people are the original intention and mission of her and the Hebei Environmental Engineering College where she is located.
During the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, a reporter from China Environmental News interviewed Li Xiaohua, a representative of the 20th National Congress, and listened to her talk about how to build environmental education in the new era.
"Current ecological environment talents are facing a large demand gap, and they urgently need high-level professional and technical talents for application. This is the endogenous driving force for building a 'high-level applied university ' with distinctive characteristics." Li Xiaohua directly pointed to the current problems of ecological environment education in his words.
"As the president of Hebei Environmental Engineering College, the only undergraduate university in the country with ecological environment education as the characteristic of running schools, I am well aware of the mission and responsibility I shoulder, and I also know that contemporary college students are the backbone of the future socialist construction of our country. I hope that through ecological civilization education in colleges and universities, we will cultivate and transport talents to effectively promote the organic integration of ecological civilization construction with economic construction, political construction, cultural construction, and social construction."
In recent years, the Hebei Environmental Engineering College where Li Xiaohua is located has provided a large number of talents to the environmental protection cause by deepening education and teaching reform, innovating the content forms of ecological environment education, establishing a linkage mechanism for ecological environment education, and cultivating students' life education and action capabilities.
What makes Li Xiaohua the most proud is that the school integrates production and education into the entire process of talent training. "The integration of industry and education can fundamentally solve the problem of the disconnection between talent training and social needs." Li Xiaohua said.
According to Li Xiaohua, Hebei Environmental Engineering College takes major as the basis, school-enterprise cooperation as the link, industry-education integration as the means, and transformation and development plans as the goal, follows the requirements of "achievement-oriented education" in the industry and industry, creatively implements the person-in-charge system for transformation and development projects, and comprehensively promotes the school's transformation and development work with transformation and development projects as the starting point.
"We closely connect the talent chain with the demand chain, industrial chain, and innovation chain, build majors on the industrial chain, concentrate the advantages of both parties to jointly solve practical problems such as scientific research and development, results transformation, vocational training, human resources support in the development of enterprises, and strive to cultivate qualified talents that can be used for the society."
"The predecessor of our school was the China Environmental Management Cadre Academy, known as the "Whampoa Military Academy" of the environmental protection system and the "green cradle" of environmental protection talents. It was created by Mr. Qu Geping, the founder of China's environmental protection cause. China's environmental education begins here." Speaking of the history of the school, Li Xiaohua's face was full of pride.
"The school was founded, and the national environmental protection cause had just begun. The school took it as its mission to awaken the environmental awareness of the whole people. By the 21st century, sustainable development has become a national strategy, and the school has offered public compulsory courses for comprehensive environmental quality education for all students."
"The 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China incorporated ecological civilization construction into the '5-in-one ' overall layout . The school unswervingly took ecological civilization education as its historical mission on its shoulders. Therefore, striving to create a national ecological environment popular science education base is the general trend and the meaning of school development."
To this end, Hebei Environmental Engineering College insists on giving priority to the development of characteristics and strong disciplines, vigorously implements the strategy of strengthening the school with talents, comprehensively improves social service capabilities, continuously strengthens university culture construction, and initially builds the "Ecological Environment Campus - Qugeping Environmental Culture Center - Hebei Province Garbage Classification Science Popularization Demonstration Base - Ecological Environment Education Social Science Popularization - Off-campus Ecological Environment Education Base".
"We do not want to limit ecological environment education to schools only. ” From establishing a garbage classification propaganda team for 100 teachers and students, broadcasting the "fire" of garbage classification, promoting and training more than 1,500 garbage classification sessions, and having more than 300,000 offline and online audiences, to becoming a science popularization base for domestic waste classification and resource utilization, and spreading the concept of garbage classification, environmental education is moving from school to society.
" 'Environmental protection' and 'education' are two major sunny undertakings, and they are also a cause that benefits generations. In the process of ecological civilization construction, it is necessary to change people's understanding, attitude and behavior of nature through ecological civilization education for the whole people. "
From the school level, Li Xiaohua introduced that the school has thoroughly implemented Xi Jinping's ecological civilization thought, seized the major policy opportunities of national ecological civilization construction and green and low-carbon high-quality development , focusing on the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people, and strive to improve the quality of cultivating applied talents and social service capabilities, and strive to build a high-level applied university with distinctive characteristics of ecological environment education as soon as possible.
" Beautiful China depicts the beautiful blueprint of the new era of socialist ecological civilization , and is a specific goal of building ecological civilization. It conforms to the new expectations of the people in pursuing a better life. It requires the joint participation and efforts of the people across the country. "
" We firmly believe that under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core and with the joint efforts of the people of all ethnic groups in the country, the concept of ecological civilization will be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the goal of a beautiful China will be realized as soon as possible. ”
When talking about the new identity of "Twenty National Congress representatives", Li Xiaohua couldn't hide his excitement: "As an educator in the field of ecological environment, he felt both supreme honorable and deeply felt a great responsibility to be elected as a representative of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. The representatives of the Party embody the will of the whole Party, carry the expectations of the people, and fulfill their sacred duties. I will bring the voices of grassroots party members and masses to the conference with the trust of the organization, and convey the spirit of the meeting to the broad masses of party members and masses as soon as possible. ”
Author: Zhonghuan Daily intern reporter Ren Jing Reporter Wang Shan
