First in Guangdong Province! GZIST “Maofeng Writers Experimental Class”

On September 6, GZIST “Maofeng Writers Experimental Class” was launched in the Writers Workshop Classroom, 606, Academic Building 13. LIU Haitao, Member of China Writers Association and the nation’s renowned scholar, ZHANG Hong, a famous writer, Vice Chairman of Guangzhou Writers Association and Editor-in-Chief of Guangzhou Literature and Art, HUANG Nansong, GZIST Executive Vice President, ZHANG Shimei, Vice President, ZHOU Weizhong, Dean of the School of Humanities and Education, Vice Deans CHEN Nanxian and WANG Meikui, as well as writers like YANG Jiafu witnessed the initiation of such a unique class in person or online. It is a bold trial to cultivate writers among undergraduate students, the first of its kind in the country’s universities and colleges to integrate the six creative writing system of poetry, novel, prose, playwright, reportage and literary review into the Chinese writing curriculum, providing the first systematic reportage program in the nation, and the first in Guangdong Province universities and colleges to open “Writers Innovative and Experimental Class”, thus GZIST has created three items of history.

GZIST, a private university with distinctive engineering discipline, has made a series of achievements in AI, next-generation information and technology, entrepreneurship and innovation, integration of industry with education, having proudly turned out cutting-edge competitive products like the Eight-Axis Linkage Robot, Ultra High-Speed Laser Cutting, High Density Electronic Components AI Detection Platform, Silicon AI Detection Platform, Rail Transit Engineering Information Control and Construction Simulation Warning, and 10L High Flow Oxygen Generator. In recent years, low-altitude aircraft maintenance and our Institute of New Energy Automobile projects have been well developed. Apart from engineering, humanities have been an integrative part of the university developmental agenda. The School of Humanities and Education has been able to grow within two years the Chinese language and literature major to an impressive student body of 5000. The currently unveiled “Maofeng Writers Experimental Class” is a creative effort under the context of “Chinese Creative Writing” being listed by the Ministry of Education as a secondary discipline of Chinese Language and Literature, a strong witness of GZIST’s strategy to propel both engineering and humanities, as well as a highlight of the School’s “Eight-Key Writing Teaching Model” which has received the attention-catching Top Teaching Award of Guangdong Province Writing Society.

GZIST Executive Vice President HUANG Nansong remarked in his address that “Maofeng Writers Experimental Class” is an endeavor of the University to enhance quality education and people development for our highly competitive graduates on the firm footing of the Greater Bay Area in order to meet our goal of a high-calibre application-oriented university, propelled by innovation. He demanded that the Class must always follow the guideline of fostering people for the CPC and developing talents for the nation through our curriculum and teaching quality so that our students will be able to learn and innovate for success and that the flowers of literature will blossom to decorate the grand garden of our motherland’s literature as well as the ivory tower at the foot of Moafeng Mountains to light up the splendid life path of our students.

GZIST “Maofeng Writers Experimental Class” takes after the name of Maofeng Mountains in Baiyun District, Guangzhou. The Class calligraphy name was written by HE Jianming, a renowned writer and former Vice Chairman of China Writers Association. Writer GUO Ming, the University Associate Professor by appointment, serves as the course leader. Each class will contain 30 students, selected from Year Two of Chinese Language and Literature major. The curriculum aims to foster both traditional and innovative, versatile and application-oriented graduates through the teaching method of creative writing. All the courses of literary creative kind will be taught by teachers with qualifications certified by China Writers Association membership, with “dual mentor ”, “dual supervisor”, internship, literary creation plus material collection. The students, upon completion, will receive the University graduation diploma and the Writers Class certificate through the dual platform of the Writers Class Workshop and the University Literary Vanguard Studio and the creative generating force of both internal and external resources of the University. The above six teaching mechanisms will guarantee smooth operation of the Class.

   GZIST “Maofeng Writers Experimental Class” invites impactful writer HE Jianming and GE Hongbing, China Creative Writing founder and leader to be chief advisers, LIU Haitao, a renowned scholar to be chief academic adviser, writer PAN Ling, Army writer YANG Jiafu, one of the top ten female poets AN Qi, country poet LIANG Shuzheng, one of the Eight Poets of Gansu ZHAO Lin, writers CHEN Bolai, DONG Jinkuim Zitengqinger, director WANG Zhi to be advisers of creative writing, guest professors or external supervisors. Professor ZHOU Weizhong, GZIST Dean of the School of Humanities and Education presented with gratitude certificates of appointment to the advisers and external supervisors.