On the morning of May 31st, Professor Yang Haijiao of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences gave a lecture on the theme of "promoting the development of political theory innovatively with the guide of the thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era of Xi Jinping" in the small conference room on third of our school.Dean Zhang Xiangdong presided over the lecture.

During the lecture, Professor Yang Haijiao encouraged graduate students to concentrate on important report documents from which they can obtain research topics,thus it is helpful to clarify the direction of their research.He emphasized that learners majoring in politics should have classic consciousness, responsibility consciousness, problem consciousness, innovation consciousness and politics consciousness.The classic consciousness is to break the boundaries of disciplines, and widely read classic such as ancient Chinese classics, Marx classics, and Sinicized Marxism.When it comes to responsibility consciousness, Professor Yang emphasized that "do not step on the watermelon peel and slide to where it stops". College students should have the sense of responsibility.Then professor Yang systematically interpreted the 19^thCPC National Congress report with vivid PPT, which enabled the students to have a deeper understanding of the thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era of Xi Jinping so that students can learn to know and understand politics systematically with the perspective of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

In this lecture, Professor Yang Haijiao’s careful viewpoints of politics encourage students to find out problems through knowledge and practice,to position themselves better and also they create a good academic atmosphere.