On October 11th, the 2022 Faculty and Staff Autumn Semester Meeting (the Meeting) was held at SAIF. In the previous meeting of the Faculty Council, Guangshao Tu (Executive Director of the SAIF Board) advised on the arrangement of the Meeting and upcoming work for the new semester. The Meeting was hosted by Qigui Zhu (Secretary of the CPC SAIF Committee). Shijun Cheng (Executive Dean), Jiang Wang (Executive Director, Chair of Academic Council at SAIF), and Tan Wang (MF Program Academic Director) delivered speeches. Over 170 SAIF professors and staff attended the conference.
Qigui Zhu first conveyed the spirit of the 8th Plenary Session of the 11th CPC SJTU Committee. He said, “In the Spring and Summer semesters, SAIF guarded the health of the faculty and students with epidemic prevention and control while promoting stable developments. In the Fall semester, we should promote the high-quality development of SAIF based on prevention and control of the epidemic, and welcome the 20th Party Congress with practical actions. We will comprehensively enhance the political function and organizational strength of SAIF and accelerate its construction as a world-class financial institute.
When reviewing the work of SAIF in the first half of 2022, Shijun Cheng said that although SAIF faced challenges due to the epidemic, with the joint efforts of all faculty and staff, a number of tasks have progressed smoothly, including: teaching tasks, inter-departmental collaboration, talent training, think tank construction and applied research, and external cooperation. In the Fall semester, Cheng pointed out that 1) SAIF should take talent work as the top priority and continuously innovate with initiatives to attract, employ and retain talent; 2) SAIF should continuously improve at the management level, and strive to form a mechanism for efficient collaboration, resource sharing and pairing complementary advantages; and, 3) SAIF should ensure the orderly advancement of key work —such as talent training, think tank construction and international cooperation — and complete annual work goals with high quality.
Jiang Wang, on behalf of the Faculty Council, fully affirmed the progress SAIF has made this year. He thanked all the faculty and staff as well for overcoming difficulties in a pandemic environment and for achieving remarkable results in teaching and research, discipline construction, and resource expansion. He pointed out that, facing a constantly changing environment and further intensifying market competition, we should turn challenges into opportunities. For the next phase of work, Wang emphasized, “We should further strengthen the construction and function of the faculty and talent team, continuously improve the quality of each program, accelerate the expansion of the market of non-academic programs, and the integration of industry-academy-research business. We should also deepen communication and cooperation with the government, schools, alumni and external organizations, and promote all the work to successfully complete the tasks assigned by the Council at the beginning of 2022.”
