Renmin University of China

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Historical evolution

School predecessor

Shanbei public school

After the July 7th incident in 1937, in order to cultivate revolutionary cadres and meet the needs of the Anti Japanese national liberation war, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to establish Shanbei public school at the end of July 1937, which was organized by Lin Boqu, Wu Yuzhang, Dong Biwu, Xu Teli, Zhang Yunyi and Cheng Fangwu. Shanbei public school is a revolutionary University established under the leadership of the CPC Central Committee. It is under the leadership of the organization department and the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee.

The purpose and training goal of Shanbei public school is to "implement national defense education and cultivate Anti Japanese War talents". Therefore, the educational policy of "helping young people to obtain the practical work methods and the minimum theoretical basis of national self-defense war" is formulated. According to the principle of seven parts of politics and three parts of military, the teaching plan is formulated to combine theory with practice, and the teaching content is small and refined The consistency of teaching and learning is the principle of teaching. In the past two years, Shanbei public school has trained more than 6000 students and recruited more than 3000 young people to join the Communist Party of China.

 

North China United University

In the summer of 1939, the situation of the Anti Japanese war changed, and the Japanese aggressors and Kuomintang diehards stepped up their attacks on the liberated areas. In June, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to jointly establish the North China United University by four schools: Shanbei public school, Yan'an Lu Xun art college, Yan'an workers' school, and anwubao wartime youth training class, and set out to run schools in the enemy rear of North China.

On July 7, 1939, North China United University was established in Yan'an. It implemented the president responsibility system under the leadership of the Party group, and set up the Ministry of Social Sciences, the Ministry of literature and art, the Ministry of workers, and the Ministry of youth. The educational policy of North China United University is: to train revolutionary cadres for the needs of the actual revolutionary struggle; to pay attention to the combination of theory and practice; and to implement the principle of less but better and popularization. The school motto is "unity, progress, assiduousness and firmness". North China United University implements militarized management, and all the cadres trained can meet the needs of working under the conditions of war. It is the first institution of higher learning set up by the Communist Party of China behind the enemy, known as "a sword in the heart of the enemy.".

 

North China University

In the spring of 1948, the CPC Central Committee decided to merge North China United University and North China University to establish North China University, so as to concentrate on expanding the scale of running the University and train a large number of construction cadres for the national liberation. Beifang University, founded in November 1945 in the Shanxi Hebei Shandong Henan border region, is a large-scale institution of higher learning with complete disciplines founded by the Central Bureau of the CPC and the people's Government of the border region. The school implements the principal responsibility system, including the school of administration, the school of Finance and economics, the school of education, the school of engineering, the school of medicine, the school of agriculture and the school of art. In more than two years since the founding of North University, more than 1000 professionals have been trained.

On August 24, 1948, North China University was established in Zhengding County, Hebei Province. Under the leadership of the North China Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, North China University implements the president responsibility system, with the purpose of cultivating cadres in politics, economy, culture, art and education serving the new democratic society as its school running purpose. It has four departments and two academies: one is a political training class, which provides short-term political and ideological training for the educated youth; the other is a college of education, which trains teachers and educational cadres in secondary schools; the other is a college of education; The third department is the College of literature and art, which trains literary and art cadres; the fourth department is the research department, which is engaged in research, training and improving university teachers; the two colleges are the College of technology and the College of agriculture.

In April 1949, North China University moved to Peking. In accordance with the instructions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on relaxing enrollment conditions, absorbing a large number of intellectuals, and rapidly training a large number of cadres for the liberation of China, North China University has focused on one department, enrolled more than 15000 students, and set up one branch school in Zhengding and one branch school in Tianjin. At the end of 1949, most of the students graduated and went to work. So far, North China University has successfully completed the historic task of training cadres for the national liberation.

North China University gave birth to a number of various types of institutions of higher learning in New China. From 1948 to 1949, in order to meet the needs of the great development of culture and education, some subordinate units gradually separated from the school to run their own schools. The Institute of technology developed into Beijing Institute of Technology (now Beijing University of Technology); the Agricultural College merged with the Agricultural College of Peking University and the Agricultural College of Tsinghua University to establish Beijing Agricultural University; the two foreign language departments left the school and merged with Peking foreign affairs school to form Peking foreign language school, and then gradually developed into Beijing Foreign Studies University; the three departments left the school to prepare and establish the central government Academy of drama, Central Academy of fine arts, East China branch of Central Academy of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Fine Arts), Central Conservatory of music, Beijing People's Art Theatre, Youth Art Theatre, Central Opera House, China Peking Opera Research Institute, etc. North China University also dispatched some cadres and teachers to Central Plains and Guangdong to prepare for the establishment of Central Plains University and Southern University.

From August 1948 to the end of 1949, North China University trained 19194 cadres for the country and made important contributions to the cause of the liberation of the Chinese people.

After the founding of the people's Republic of China

Renmin University of China

On October 1, 1949, the people's Republic of China was founded. In order to cultivate talents with Marxist Leninist quality and professional knowledge for the construction of new China, the CPC Central Committee decided to transfer some cadres from North China People's revolutionary university to form Renmin University of China on the basis of North China University. On December 16, the 11th Government Affairs Council of the Central People's government adopted the "decision on the establishment of Renmin University of China" on the recommendation of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. On October 3, 1950, Renmin University of China, which was established on the basis of North China University, officially opened, becoming the first new regular university founded in New China.

 

On November 12, the CPC Central Committee approved the establishment of the Party group of Renmin University of China.

 

By the end of 1952, Renmin University of China had begun to take shape, with 9 departments, 38 teaching and research offices, and 1 translation and translation office. In addition, there were specialized courses, preparatory courses, Marxism Leninism research classes, graduate classes, Marxism Leninism night University, night school, correspondence course and attached quick learning middle school for workers and peasants. In three years, 2318 graduates of various types were trained for the country.

 

In 1953, China entered a new period of socialist transformation and construction. In order to meet the needs of the new period, Renmin University of China adjusted its school running tasks and disciplines and opened up a way to cultivate new-type workers and peasants intellectuals. In order to cultivate talents of Chinese as a foreign language, Renmin University of China, jointly commissioned by the Ministry of foreign affairs and the Ministry of education in 1953, received foreign students from Poland, Hungary and other countries to study Chinese, becoming one of the earliest schools in China to engage in teaching Chinese as a foreign language.

 

In 1954, the University was identified as a comprehensive university focusing on Social Sciences and the first batch of national key universities.

By 1956, Renmin University of China had developed into a comprehensive university that mainly trained Marxist Leninist teachers and cadres of finance, economics, politics and law. After 1957, the department setting of Renmin University of China has further developed. By the end of 1965, the whole university had one college, 12 departments, three research institutes and one research room. There are 19 specialties. In 1960, the University was designated as a comprehensive national key university by the central government.

In the 15 years from its establishment to 1965, Renmin University of China has received more than 400 international students from 24 countries and regions, trained 65870 graduates of various types for the country, and achieved 2397 scientific research achievements.

The "Cultural Revolution" that began in 1966 brought great disaster to Renmin University of China. A large number of cadres and teachers were criticized, party and government organizations at all levels were paralyzed, and all teaching and scientific research work was forced to stop. In October 1970, the Beijing Municipal Revolutionary Committee informed the Renmin University of China to suspend its operation, and the Renmin University of China, which was founded by the Communist Party of China with a glorious history of more than 30 years and a fine revolutionary tradition, was dissolved.

In September 1977, Deng Xiaoping put forward: "the people's University is to be established, mainly to train cadres in finance and trade, economic management and Marxist Leninist theory workers."

 

In March 1978, the CPC Central Committee appointed Cheng Fangwu and Guo Yingqiu to be responsible for preparing for the restoration of Renmin University of China. On July 7, the State Council issued a document reiterating that Renmin University of China is a comprehensive university of social sciences. The restoration of Renmin University of China will play an important role in strengthening the training of Marxist Leninist social science theory talents, economic management talents and political teachers in Colleges and universities.

In August 1978, Renmin University of China restored and established 15 departments of philosophy, political economy, scientific socialism, history of the Communist Party of China, law, Chinese language and literature, journalism, Chinese history, archives, planning and statistics, finance, industrial economy, trade economy, agricultural economy, and economic information management, including the history of Marxism Leninism, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, foreign economic management, and the history of the Qing Dynasty There are 6 research institutes of population theory and language, 4 teaching units directly under foreign language, Russian, physical education and audio-visual education, as well as affiliated units such as publishing house, library and card reference agency, Qingfeng machinery factory and affiliated middle school. The school has 24 teaching units

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