On the afternoon of July 2, the College of art and design launched the first training session of the sub Party School (Teacher Development Center). Zhou Yanjun, Secretary of the Party committee, gave a special lecture on leadership thinking and working methods for all the management personnel of the college. Members of the leading group, heads and deputy heads of departments, branch secretaries, directors of the aesthetic education teaching and Research Office, laboratory directors and all administrative staff participated in the study, The lecture was presided over by President Gu Chen.

First of all, he pointed out that leading cadres should have a diversified knowledge structure of philosophy, politics, management and history in the knowledge system, and a systematic and strategic thinking structure in the thinking system. He talked about the six thinking that General Secretary Xi stressed that leading cadres should have: dialectical thinking, systematic thinking, strategic thinking, legal thinking, bottom line thinking, and accurate thinking. He pointed out that dialectical thinking is the basic quality of college management cadres.

Then he elaborated the application of dialectical thinking in the practical work of the college from 12 aspects. From the time when Mao Zedong was in the founding ceremony, he responded to the long live the people, and expounded the dialectical relationship between respecting authority and carrying forward democracy. From Mao Zedong's speech at the Forum on Yanan literature and art and Xi Jinping's speech at the forum of Beijing and the literary and art circles, the author pointed out that he has a high political standing and a broad professional vision, and works from reality, close to the masses and unite the masses. From the story of Wu Qi is a general, the dialectical relationship between teachers' ideological problems and life difficulties is explained.

Finally, he asked the college management cadres not to fall into the pursuit of doing things right, but not thinking about doing the right things. The management cadres should go beyond the single thinking structure, cultivate the compound thinking structure, achieve the systematic thinking structure, and finally form the strategic thinking structure.

President Gu Chen summarized the lecture. She pointed out that the lecture should be closely linked with theory and practice, and should be closely combined with theory and practice.

The theme of the lecture was outstanding, the connotation was rich, and the exposition was incisive. The participants said that the lecture not only focused on the theoretical interpretation, but also focused on the analysis combined with the actual situation, which not only has the theoretical height and ideological depth, but also has the guidance for the practical work. Wang Hongfei, director of the Department of digital media, said that through this study, we really realized why we should respect authority in our daily work, how to establish authority, and understand the dialectical and unified relationship between respecting authority and promoting democracy. Luo Ying, director of the laboratory, said that she learned how to grasp the systematic thinking mode and the art of speech through learning, hoping to carry out more similar training in the future.