On October 30, 2009, the 10th Anniversary Conference of Association of Chinese Graduate Schools(ACGS）and the 2009 Annual Meeting of tAssociation of Chinese Graduate Schools(ACGS）were held in Xi'an, the ancient city of China. The main leaders attending the conference were Chen Xi, Deputy Secretary of the Party Group of the Ministry of Education and Vice Minister of the Ministry of Education, Lin Huiqing, Member of the Party Group of the Ministry of Education and Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Education, Liu Jinghui, Secretary General of the China Scholarship Council, Guo Xinli and Liang Guoxiong, Deputy Directors of the Academic Degrees Office of the State Council and Deputy Directors of the Department of Degree Management and Graduate Education of the Ministry of Education, Yang Xiwen, Deputy Secretary of the Education Work Committee of Shaanxi Provincial Committee and Director of Shaanxi Provincial Department of Education, Zhou Qifeng, President of Peking University and Dean of Graduate School, and Academician Zhou Qifeng, Academician Zheng Nanning, President of Xi'an Jiaotong University and Dean of Graduate School, Wang Jianhua, Secretary of Party Committee of Xi'an Jiaotong University, deans and vice deans of 57 graduate schools nationwide, and relevant leading comrades from the Ministry of Education, Academic Degrees Office of the State Council, China Scholarship Council, Center for Development of Academic Degrees and Graduate Education, and Shaanxi Academic Degrees Office were also present at the conference.

Chen Xi, Vice Minister and Deputy Secretary of the Party Group of the Ministry of Education

Vice Minister Chen Xi delivered an important speech at the conference. On behalf of the Ministry of Education, he congratulated the 10th anniversary of the establishment of Association of Chinese Graduate Schools(ACGS）and fully affirmed the outstanding contributions made by the Joint Conference to the reform and development of degree and postgraduate education in China in the past ten years. He pointed out the importance and urgency of the reform and development of graduate education under the new situation and the direction of the future development of China's graduate education from the national strategic height, and raised new expectations for the future development of the Joint Conference.

Lin Huiqing, Assistant Minister, Member of the Party Group, Ministry of Education

Assistant Minister Lin Huiqing, Deputy Director Liang Guoxiong, Director Yang Xiwen and President Zheng Nanning delivered speeches at the opening ceremony, in which they reviewed and summarized the fruitful work carried out by the Association of Chinese Graduate Schools(ACGS）in the past ten years since its establishment, and the important influence it has made in the field of graduate education at home and abroad. Reflecting on the current situation of the reform of graduate education, they put forward some issues worthy of deep consideration in the current reform and development of graduate education. Facing the new situation, new tasks and new requirements, they hoped and believed that the Association of Chinese Graduate Schools(ACGS）could uphold its responsibilities and missions, actively explore the road of sustainable development of degree and graduate education around the national goals, and make greater contributions to opening up a new situation of the cause of degree and graduate education in China. In his speech, Vice President Liang Guoxiong said that the Joint Council of Graduate Schools of China will make more contributions to the development of degree and graduate education in China. In his speech, Vice Director Liang Guoxiong spoke highly of the work of the Association of Chinese Graduate Schools(ACGS）, saying that "after ten years of development, the Joint Council has become a researcher, advisor and suggester of major policy issues in the development of degree and postgraduate education in China; it has become a forum for Chinese postgraduate education to "go out" and "invite in" in the international arena. It has become an important window and friendly messenger for Chinese graduate education to "go out" and "invite in" internationally; it has become an important bridge and link between the government, graduate schools and other graduate training units."

Liang Guoxiong, Deputy Inspector of Academic Degrees Office of the State Council

Academician Zheng Nanning, President of Xi'an Jiaotong University and Dean of Graduate School

Academician Zhou Qifeng, President of Peking University, as the first Asecretariat of Association of Chinese Graduate Schools and also the current secretary-general, gave a report on the theme of "Summarizing Experience, Opening Up Innovation, Striving to Build China into a Powerful Country of Graduate Education - Review of the Work of the Association of Chinese Graduate Schools(ACGS）in its Tenth Anniversary", in which President Zhou, as the secretary-general of the Joint Committee, gave the participants a comprehensive He fully affirmed and expressed his heartfelt thanks for the careful guidance of the Ministry of Education and the Academic Degrees Office of the State Council, the hard work of the Secretariat of the Joint Committee, the active cooperation of all member institutions and graduate schools, and the extensive support from all walks of life, and expressed his expectation that the Joint Committee could continue to He expects that the Joint Committee will continue to accumulate experience, make further efforts, implement the scientific concept of development, be bold and innovative, and play a more important role at the critical historical moment when China is transforming from a large postgraduate education country to a strong postgraduate education country.

Academician Zhou Qifeng, President of Peking University

Prof. Su Jianbo of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Prof. Xu Huaimin of China University of Petroleum and Prof. Wang Yanglin of Peking University also made reports on the work of the delegation of the Association of Chinese Graduate Schools(ACGS）to the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Graduate Schools, the delegation of the Joint Council of Deans to Hong Kong and the delegation of Association of Chinese Graduate Schools(ACGS）to Taiwan, sharing the experience and methods of the reform of graduate education in the United States, Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as some thoughts and inspirations on the reform of graduate education in China. Professor Yanglin Wang also briefly introduced the work of the Association of Chinese Graduate Schools(ACGS）in 2009; Professor Zhibin Li of East China Normal University introduced the situation related to the preparation of the Annual Report on Graduate Education in China; Professor Huiyuan Ye, former Vice President of Shanghai Jiaotong University and former Dean of Graduate School, and Professor Haoming Chen, former Executive Vice Dean of Graduate School of Tsinghua University, spoke on behalf of the outgoing deans. Prof. Ye Huiyuan, former Vice President of Shanghai Jiao Tong University and former Dean of Graduate School, and Prof. Chen Haoming, former Executive Vice Dean of Graduate School of Tsinghua University, spoke on behalf of the outgoing deans, reviewing the reform and development of China's graduate education and sharing their experiences in graduate education for many years.

The ten years since the establishment of the Association of Chinese Graduate Schools(ACGS）are the fastest growing decade in the history of China's higher education, especially postgraduate education. China's degree and postgraduate education system has been improved and developed continuously in these ten years, and China has become the world's leading country in postgraduate education. The Asecretariat of Association of Chinese Graduate Schools has brought together the elites in the field of graduate education in China, closely combined with the actual development of graduate education in China, conducted researches on many important issues such as reality and development, theory and practice of degree and graduate education around the national strategic policy, provided a lot of valuable consulting suggestions and opinions for national decision-making, and made positive contributions to the reform and development of degree and graduate education in China. . "The 10th Anniversary Conference of the Association of Chinese Graduate Schools(ACGS）and the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Association of Chinese Graduate Schools(ACGS）is of great significance for China's graduate education to stand at a new starting point, summarize its experience, explore innovation and development of graduate education under the new situation, and complete the historical transformation from a large country of graduate education to a strong country of graduate education. It is of great significance to explore the reform and innovation and development of graduate education under the new situation, and to complete the historical transformation from a large country of graduate education to a strong one.

Photograph: Qu Yizhen

Editor: Qu Yizhen Liao Xiaoling

Secretariat of ACGS

November 4th, 2009