China News Service, Yinchuan, April 28th, question: Attracting nearly 330 doctors in 5 years, why does this northwestern university attract talents and gather talents?

　　China News Service reporter Li Peishan

　　In the past 5 years, a total of 329 full-time on-the-job doctoral teachers have been brought together, and the total number of doctors in Ningxia has reached 888, accounting for 45% of the total number of doctors in Ningxia; 233 people have won the title of talents at or above the provincial and ministerial level. 100 million yuan (RMB, the same below); chemistry and engineering disciplines enter the top 1% of the ESI world rankings; both the National Social Science Fund and the National Natural Science Foundation of China rank among the top universities in the west... Behind a series of figures, Ningxia University is centered on "double first-class" "A series of explorations for colleges and universities to build and strengthen high-level teaching staff.

This university located in the northwest inland has become a "depression" for talents by attracting and gathering talents?

Let young teachers "lead the way"

　　In the summer of 2019, Li Le, a "post-90s" young man who was about to graduate from Tsinghua University's biology doctoral program, had new "troubles". Did he stay in the capital, Beijing?

Or go south to the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta to "break the world"?

When she was hesitant to receive many olive branches, an invitation from Ningxia University made her heart move.

　　"My undergraduate degree was cultivated by Ningxia University, which is also the starting point for my academic achievements. Now is a critical moment for the development of my alma mater, and it is time for us to give back to our alma mater." Regardless of the opposition of his family, Li Le resolutely came to this place Others seem to be remote and "no development prospects".

Ningxia University held a symposium on high-quality development of young talents, and school leaders communicated with representatives of young doctors.

Photo courtesy of Ningxia University

　　"In the two and a half years I came to Ningxia, I was promoted to a professor by exception, and then I was selected as a doctoral supervisor. At present, I have started to continue my experience as the vice president of the college. It can be said that from team building, projects Application, title review, mentor selection, and a series of extraordinary measures by Ningxia University to support the growth of young teachers have made me grow rapidly." Looking back on his work and life in Ningxia, Li Le has a lot of feelings.

At present, she has also been selected into the "China Association for Science and Technology Young Talent Support Project" and "Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Young Talent Project".

　　As Li Le said, Ningxia University insists on supporting the training of young teachers as the focus of its talent work, allowing young teachers to play the leading role and be the protagonists.

　　"In Ningxia University, newly recruited young doctoral teachers can be selected as master's tutors, and those who are particularly outstanding can be directly selected as doctoral tutors. In order to better develop young teachers, we have also established a 'special recommendation' promotion mechanism for professional title evaluation." According to Li Xing, Secretary of the Party Committee of Ningxia University, in 2021 alone, nearly one-third of young doctoral teachers at Ningxia University will be promoted to senior titles through "special recommendation". The help in the early stages is far better than the icing on the cake when you are on the right track.”

Let system reform break down "barriers"

　　For a long time, the development of the western region has been restricted by the shortage of talents. From the "talent desert" to the "talent depression", Ningxia University bravely broke into the "no man's land" in the reform of the talent development system and mechanism. Institutional barriers and policy barriers.

　　In 2020, Ningxia University issued the "Ningxia University Professional and Technical Post Setting and Appointment Implementation Plan", through the establishment of permanent posts and special posts, highlighting performance, contribution and ability, and implementing classified employment of all staff.

In that year, 268 professional technicians competed for senior positions from different positions, and 45 professional technicians were demoted from different positions, which truly realized the ability to go up and down.

　　In the same year, Ningxia University continued to promote the reform of performance-based salary, breaking the "ranking based on seniority" and "determining salary based on status", and through dynamic management, teachers could earn more with more work and be paid with better performance.

　　Peng Zhike, president of Ningxia University, told reporters that the total performance salary of school teachers has increased from 75.99 million yuan at the end of the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" to 162 million yuan.

A scene of Jinbo Lake in Ningxia University.

Photo courtesy of Ningxia University

　　The task-driven professional title reform system allows all kinds of talents to compete for creativity. At the same time, the special clean-up activities for breaking the "five uniques" also provide a comprehensive development platform for different disciplines and talents.

　　Wang Shengze, the vice dean and professor of the Academy of Fine Arts of Ningxia University, is one of the beneficiaries of breaking the "five only".

　　On October 15, 2021, at the national finals of the 7th China "Internet +" College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, which ended in Nanchang, Jiangxi, the project team of Ningxia University "Silk Road Ningxia Cultural and Creative - Leader of the Integrated Development of Culture and Tourism in Western China" It stood out from 2.28 million teams from 4,347 colleges and universities from 121 countries and regions and won the Gold Award of the Higher Education Main Track.

As the representative of Ningxia universities, the Ningxia University participating team won the gold medal in the national finals of the competition for the first time, achieving a zero breakthrough in Ningxia's participation history, and the team's mentor Wang Shengze also received an exceptional opportunity to be promoted to professor.

　　"As a teacher of art major, I have received the dividends brought by the reform of the school's talent policy." Wang Shengze told reporters that the talent policy formulation of Ningxia University broke the traditional unreasonable phenomena such as single, indexed, and utilitarian evaluation indicators. It is the determination and confidence to break the "five only", "mainly representative results, multi-faceted, three-dimensional evaluation, more reasonable and scientific, conducive to mobilizing the enthusiasm and initiative of teachers, especially taking into account the sound, beauty, The professional characteristics of physical education.”

　　At present, Ningxia University continues to deepen the reform of performance-based salary, breaks the ranking of seniority, and determines salary based on status, so as to achieve more for more work and better remuneration for outstanding performance, which effectively stimulates the endogenous motivation of the talent team.

Let the "service chain" continue to extend

　　Born in Ningxia in 1993, Mao Jie, a young man from Ningxia, joined the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of Ningxia University (the State Key Laboratory of Coal Efficient Utilization and Green Chemical Engineering jointly established by the province and the ministry) after returning from a visiting study at Harvard University in the United States in 2020. Currently, he has led his team in Nature, Cell, etc. He has published nearly 10 papers in world-class journals and obtained 4 authorized invention patents.

"My growth has benefited from the training mechanism of Ningxia University that is conducive to the growth of talents." Mao Jie said frankly that the utilization mechanism and incentive mechanism of making the best use of talents allow him to devote himself to scientific research without any worries.

　　It is understood that Ningxia University promotes the construction of the talent team as the school's "first-in-command" project, and fully guarantees talent salaries, children's enrollment, spouse placement, and housing needs.

A view of Lingyun Square, Ningxia University.

Photo courtesy of Ningxia University

　　Li Xing told reporters that Ningxia University will build a new kindergarten park affiliated to Ningda University in 2020. The Ninth Primary School and No. 11 Primary School in Xixia District, Yinchuan City will be included in the primary school affiliated to Ningxia University, and excellent managers will be selected from high-quality middle schools as the affiliated schools of Ningxia University. The secretary and principal of the middle school invest 10 million yuan each year in the construction of attached kindergartens, elementary schools, and middle schools, ensuring that the children of young teachers can go to school with high-quality basic education, and try their best to "keep their hearts and keep them".

　　At the same time, the Xixia District Education Town, which is only 2 kilometers away from Ningxia University, is expected to be put into use this fall.

This "school-city-integrated" comprehensive education base that integrates kindergartens, primary schools, junior high schools and high-end talent communities also allows young teachers to have no worries.

　　"Without a high-level teaching staff, it is difficult to cultivate high-level innovative talents." Peng Zhike said that gathering talents is only the first step, and cultivating more talents will be the top priority of future development. We will make efforts to cultivate, introduce and make good use of talents, focus on innovating the system and mechanism of talent work, and continue to strengthen service guarantees and create a good talent development ecology. By 2025, the total number of teachers with doctoral degrees in the school will reach 1,200. Around 70% of the full-time teachers have doctoral degrees, forming a new situation where talents gather and develop.” (End)