In order to thoroughly implement the overall deployment of the school's "3510" strategic project and fully implement the spirit of the school's "Pioneer Plan", to accelerate the high-quality and in-depth development of the food science and engineering discipline and focus on striving for the construction of a first-class discipline, on May 29th, the Food Science and Engineering College held a grand meeting for all faculty members, officially launching the college's "Striving Project" and releasing the "Work Plan for the Food Science and Engineering College's Striving Project". The entire leadership team of the college attended the meeting, and all faculty members participated.

Party Secretary Du Xinjun of the college pointed out that the "Striving Project" is the overall guiding principle, the overall plan, and the action guide for the development of the college over the next five years. It should be led by the Party building, deepen the "Party building + reform" and "Party building + innovation" dual integration and mutual promotion mechanism, fully mobilize the enthusiasm, initiative and creativity of all faculty and staff, with the spirit of "striving", the attitude of "striving" and the style of "practicality" to face problems, overcome difficulties, and at the same time adhere to the four basic principles of "Party committee leadership, mass line, problem orientation, and closed-loop promotion", build a full-chain working mechanism, and ensure the tasks are implemented and achieved. He stated that the college has established a "Striving Project" leading group with the Party secretary and the president as the co-chairs. The four actions are led by college leaders, the academic committee, the degree sub-committee, and the representatives of young backbone teachers respectively, and relevant working groups have been established. The college has incorporated the reform actions into performance reform, allocated special funds, and linked the reform results with performance distribution, professional title evaluation, and awards and honors. Resources will be tilted towards the hardworking ones and honors will be awarded to the dedicated ones. He called on all faculty and staff to anchor the goal of building a first-class discipline with the cultural consciousness of "Food Pioneer, Striving for Me", and promote the college's cause to reach a new level.

Party Secretary and President Cheng Dai provided a comprehensive explanation of the background, core essence and implementation path of the "Striving Project". He pointed out that implementing the "Striving Project" is an important deployment made by the Party Committee of the college based on the national "Healthy China" and "Big Food View" strategies, in line with the "Ten Actions" and "1+3+4" modern industrial industrial system of Tianjin, and in line with the development direction of food science technology in the "15th Five-Year Plan" of the country. It is a key measure to promote the college from scale development to quality improvement and from scattered research efforts to organized scientific research.

President Cheng Dai stated that according to the set goals of the "Striving Project", by the end of the "15th Five-Year Plan", the college will strive to achieve four major breakthroughs: optimize the disciplinary ecosystem, make the disciplinary directions more focused, successfully complete the K11 task, and continuously improve the comprehensive strength of the discipline; significantly enhance the quality of talent cultivation, all core majors will pass national professional certification, the integrated undergraduate, master's and doctoral education system will be maturely operating, and the rate of high-level achievements of postgraduate students will be significantly increased; significantly optimize the structure of the talent team, achieve new breakthroughs in the number of national-level talents and provincial-level and ministerial-level talents, and continuously expand the U35 and U40 youth talent梯队； comprehensively enhance the industry influence of the college， and create a food discipline publicity brand with domestic recognition and international awareness. To ensure the implementation of the goals， the "Striving Project" will set four core actions： research orientation， quality improvement of study tours， strengthening the foundation of talents， and expanding and amplifying the circle. These actions cover all dimensions of research innovation， talent cultivation， team building， and social services.

At the meeting, the deputy secretary and the discipline secretary of the college, Liu Shuang, focused on the key tasks related to employment and the graduation season. Vice Dean Liu Jifeng focused on the management of graduate teaching and related research work. Vice Dean Li Shuhong focused on the analysis of undergraduate course assessments, the completion and defense of the graduation projects for the class of 2026, the supervision and examination of CET and the final professional course examinations, etc., all related to teaching work. Vice Dean Wang Peiran focused on the audit of research fund expenditures, material procurement, and laboratory management, respectively, and made arrangements and gave reminders.

The convening of this conference marks the full launch of the "Striving Project" of the Food Science and Engineering College. It will surely inspire all the teachers to focus on their posts and strive hard, taking concrete actions to contribute to the high-quality development of the discipline, and making greater contributions to the implementation of the "3510" strategy of the university and the development of various undertakings of the college.

Author: Liu Shanshan