Dear teachers, students, alumni and friends,
With the joy of harvest and passion for making progress, we said good-bye to extraordinary 2019 and walked into 2020 with hope and vitality. On behalf of the law school, I would like to extend my sincere greetings to all teachers and students, alumni at home and abroad, and retired people at the wonderful time of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new. I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to the friends from all walks of life who supported and helped the construction and development of the law school for a long time.
Forty years have passed, but the original intention never changed. 2019 was the 40th anniversary of Wuhan University's resumption of legal education and the 111th anniversary of the establishment of the discipline of law. We have held more than 100 academic commemorative activities and commemorative celebrations in 2019. We reviewed the past 40 years of legal education in Wuhan University. While recalling and honoring the ancestors, we felt the spirits of great humanity, faith persistence, cooperation, uplifting and never giving up.
2019 was the 70th anniversary of the founding of new China. Over the past year, the law school has conscientiously studied and implemented the spirit of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of China, actively carried out the theme education of "never forget the original intention and keep the mission in mind", adhered to the direction of socialism, comprehensively implemented the task of cultivating talents, and focused on the construction of "Double First-rate" university in order to promote social progress and contribute to the country. We have made great achievements in discipline construction, team building, scientific research, personnel training, exchange and cooperation.
Looking back to 2019 the law school obtained 21 kinds of national scientific research projects, including 4 major categories of national social science fund, reaching a new level in academic research. The law school devoted major efforts to promote the reform of teaching courses. The series of introductory lectures on law and criminal case study courses have achieved initial results, which was popular with students and won 2 second prizes of national teaching achievements;
The law school and LUMS established the Centre for Chinese Legal Study in Pakistan. We sent excellent teachers to teach Chinese law and made an achievement in serving the country's The Belt and Road strategy. To deal with the provocation from America and keep the pace with the escalation of China's economic and trade war, the Research Institute of International Law of Wuhan University successfully held the seminar on China's Practice of International Law, which stroke a powerful response to American government's violation of international rules and make a profound effect.
In the past year, the discipline comprehensive strength has been steadily improved. Wuhan University's law discipline ranked the top 100 in the QS annual world discipline ranking and the second in China's best law discipline ranking of ARWU. Under the donation of all alumni, the law school initiated the establishment of Wuhan University Luojia Law Science Development Fund, which had been subscribed with 120 million yuan of donation. All these achievements could not be separable from the wisdom and sweat of all the teachers, students and alumni.
It was the time to start the journey with the blueprint. Standing at the point of the new era in 2020, the law school would further practice the concept of "talent training was the foundation" , strengthen class teaching and comprehensively improve the quality of talent training. The law school would further strengthen the construction of talent team, actively participate in the practice of comprehensive rule of law, conduct advanced research on social reform in China, and make academic achievements in the new era. Let us work hard to build a world-class law school with innovation and strength!
I sincerely wished the teachers, students and friends all the best in the New Year and the law school more brilliant in the future.
