TheResolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Further Deepening Reform Comprehensively toAdvance Chinese Modernizationwhich was accepted at the third plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on July 18, 2024proposes improvingthe institutional mechanism forconsolidating thesense of the Chinesenation asonesinglecommunity and enhancingthe cohesion of the Chinese nation. In order to deeply study and implement General Secretaryof PRCXi Jinping's important thoughts on strengthening and improving the work of the nationalities, the Education and Teaching Seminar onconsolidating thesense of the Chinesenation asonesinglecommunity and the Unveiling Ceremony of Red Pomegranate Society for College Students of Jilin University were successfully held in Changchun, Jilin, on November 15-17, 2024.

The conference was guided byEthnic Affairs Commissionof Jilin ProvinceandtheEducation Departmentof Jilin Province, co-held by Chinese Northeastern Nationality Study Center of Jilin University (CNNSC)andtheUnited Front Work Department ofCPC JLU Committee, andassistedby Jilin University Communist Youth LeagueCommittee,School ofPreparatory Education of Jilin University andSchoolof Marxism of Jilin University. Guests attending the opening ceremony included: Feng Qingzhong, Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Ethnic Affairs Commissionof Jilin Province; Han Xiping, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Jilin University and Chief Expert of theCNNSC; Xu Kaiyu,minister ofthe United Front Work Department of the EducationDepartmentof Jilin Province;Tian Lei, Director of the Ethnic Affairs CommissionResearch Center of Jilin Province; Qian Lixian, Standing Committee Member of theCPCCommittee, Director of the Propaganda Department and Director of the United Front Work Department of Changchun Normal University; Miao Yixuan,Executive Vice Minister of the United Front Work Department ofCPC JIU Committee;Ma Jinghui,Secretary of the Jilin University Youth League Committee;Jia Lihua,Secretary of theCPCCommittee ofSchool ofPreparatory Education of Jilin University;Huang Zhongmin, Dean ofSchool ofPreparatory Education of Jilin University;Zhong Xin,Secretary of theCPCCommittee of theSchoolof Marxism of Jilin University.From the six National People's Committee Research Bases for Consolidating the Sense of the Chinese Nation as One Single Community in Northeast China (Harbin Institute of Technology, Northeast Normal University, Yanbian University, Liaoning Normal University, DalianMinzuUniversity,Bohai University), Sichuan University, Tibet University, Xinjiang Medical University,HuaqiaoUniversity, Yanshan University, Socialist College of Jilin, Jilin Social Sciencescollleage, Changchun Normal University, Changchun University of Chinese Medicine, TonghuaNormalUniversity, Jilin Institute of Chemical Technology, Jilin Agricultural Science and TechnologyUniversity,ect,more than 20 universities and research institutes, as well as “Journal of Northeast Normal University”, “Journal of Sichuan University”, “Social Science Research”, “DongjiangJournal”, “ChineseSocial Science” and other periodicals and media, nearly 90 experts and scholars to participate in the conference.

The opening ceremony of the conference was hosted by Shao Yanmin, director of the Academic Committee ofCNNSC. Han Xiping, Deputy Secretary of theCPCCommittee of Jilin University and Chief Expert of theCNNSC, delivered a welcome speech,pointing that education, teaching and practice ofconsolidating thesense of the Chinesenation asonesinglecommunitywereclosely dependent on each other, and that this symposium, which gathersthe wisdom of experts from both inside and outside the university,isof great significance in promoting the education and teaching ofconsolidating thesense of the Chinesenation asonesinglecommunity.

Luo Kequan, Director of theCNNSCand Vice Dean of the School of Marxism, made a summary of the conference. Prof. Luo Kequan firstly expressed his sincere thanks to all the guests for their wonderful speeches, the active participation of the participants and the hard work of the staff, and pointed out thatconsolidating thesense of the Chinesenation asonesinglecommunity is an inevitable requirement for the realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Every speech is full of firm belief in the educational and teaching work ofconsolidating thesense of the Chinesenation asonesinglecommunity. We should take the meeting as an opportunity to transform the results of the meeting into practical actions, and integrate the concept ofconsolidating thesense of the Chinesenation asonesinglecommunity into our daily education and teaching, into our behavior and actions, so as to make it a common pursuit of values and a guide to action.