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Shanghai Party Institute(SPI) & Shanghai Administration Institute(SAI), a system of “one institute, two names”, are a comprehensive base for cadre-training in Shanghai and also an institution to train civil servants and their successors at the intermediate and senior levels. SPI was founded in June 1949 and resumed in 1977 after the suspension during the Cultural Revolution. In 1986, Shanghai Municipal Committee of CCP and Shanghai Municipal Government authorized SPI to establish Shanghai Administrative Cadres Institute (SACI). In 1989, SACI was renamed Shanghai Administration Institute. The institute,the |
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unique to its counterparts in China,is a member of the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration (IASIA) and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).
The institute, located in the southwest of Shanghai, covers an area of 14.3 hectares with floor space of about 110,000 square meters. The campus enjoys beautiful scenery and over 40 % is beauteously greenized. On the campus stand modern classroom buildings, an administration building, a library building, an auditorium, dormitories and others. The multi-function building, Haixing Hotel, integrates different functions of accommodation, teaching, conference, catering, entertainment and body-building. The auditorium, with the total floor space of 10,000 square meters, can seat 1,700. The campus possesses over 90 different-sized meeting rooms, seminar rooms, classrooms, and 6 lecture halls with different seating capacities ranging from 100 to 400. The institute can accommodate more than 1,400 trainees at one time, and it can also serve domestic or international academic and professional symposia and training programs at high level. |
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The statistic shows that, in September 2004, the institute had more than 400 employees, of whom 190 are professionals, accounting for 46.6 percent of the total. And 26 are professors and researchers, making up 13.7 percent; 60 are associate professors and associate researchers, covering 31.6 percent. The faculty members possessing doctorates or masterates amount to 68.7 percent. And the institute has invited 30 renowned experts and scholars as guest professors or
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guest researchers, 4 of whom are from foreign countries. What's more, the institute has organized a bank of teacher resources, consisting of over 100 off-campus experts and scholars.
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The institute has over 10 departments and research institutions, including Philosophy Department, Economics Department, Department of Scientific Socialism, Department of the CCP History and the Party Building, Department of Public Administration, Centre for Political-Parties Studies, Centre for Government Studies, Centre for Urban-Society Studies, Centre of Human Resource Assessment, and Shanghai Municipal Information Centre for Cadre Training.
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| The institute, in earnest, fulfils four new requirements in teaching and research: seeking truth from facts, keeping pace with the times, keeping the style of hard struggle and plain living, and governing for the people. Adhering to Deng Xiaoping Theory and the Important Thought of Three Represents as its guidance and focusing on enhancement of the consciousness of a Party member and improvement on the governing capability, the institute has been perfecting the following teaching contents: theoretic foundation, world-wide perspective, strategic thinking, cultivation of the consciousness of a Party member. And it has been strategically pursuing quality training. More than 100 training classes are enrolled annually, covering over 10,000 cadres and civil servants. The institute is authorized to award masterates of Marxist Philosophy and of Political Science (Public Administration) to post-graduates enrolled all over China. The institute also provides on-the-spot officials with part-time studies of junior-college courses, college courses and post-graduate courses. Also, it cooperates with other higher institutions in training full-time college students majoring in Public Administration and post-graduates for Master of Public Administration(MPA). |
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The institute adheres to the conception of integrating teaching, research and counseling as one in its simultaneous development, and fulfils the strategy of giving priority to focal research projects and the strategy for first-rate research achievements. And it has formed its own distinctive features and superiority in the following research fields: Modern Politics, Public Administration, the Party Leadership and Governance Methods, Construction of the Party's Organizations, Evolvement of Mao |
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| Zedong Thought, Chinese Contemporary Marxist Philosophy, Cultural Philosophy and Cultural Development Strategy, Epistemology and Thinking Science, Science of Economic Policy, Property-Right Economics, Business Management, Deng Xiaoping Theory, Study on the Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, Democracy of Chinese Characteristics, International Strategic Thinking, Modern Human Resources Management, Evaluation of Leaders' Quality, Urban Society Science, etc. Since 2002, the institute has undertaken 117 research programs, among which there are one program providing decision-making counseling directly for the Chinese Central Government, 10 programs subsidized by the state, 29 programs subsidized by the municipality, and 21 programs entrusted by governmental organs. From 2002 to 2003, the institute published 35 books, over 600 theoretical articles, and 34 of them were awarded prizes for excellent achievements. |
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| The institute's development of informationization takes Shanghai municipal informationization as its setting, and aims for offering the best service of teaching and research, and office automation as well. Owing to its good beginning and high standards, the institute's informationization is leading in its Chinese counterparts. Its library has a large collection of books: about 410,000 books in Chinese, 4,700 books in foreign languages, nearly 3,400 kinds of newspapers and magazines and over 100 e-publications. Since 1997, the library has developed into a digital one since its initial construction of Database of Chinese Social Science Reference Information in 1997 with its website of http://www.libweb.sdx.sh.cn. Now this network embodies Library Literature Database, Tsinghua Tongfang Chinese Journal Net--- Whole-Text Web of Social Science, Whole-Text Database of People's University Copy Data, Index Database of China's Law Information, People's Daily, Database of Shanghai Municipal Cadres Education. These databases have got as many as 5.6 million items, some of which were input by the library and the rest were bought from the outside. |
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| Another striking feature of the institute is international academic exchanges. The academic collaborations are going steadily with over 10 foreign countries, such as the U.S.A., Russia, France, Germany, Canada, Korea, the U.K., Australia, Vietnam and Laos as well as the Regions of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. It carries out cooperative programs with some world-renowned universities, for example, Harvard University, Yale University, etc. The institute sends civil servants to the National School of Administration of France, the University of Georgia and so on for the implementation of collaborative programs to train civil servants. Since the year 2002, the institute has hosted 25 international symposia and 915 foreign visitors in 134 groups, and has sent 198 staff members abroad as academic researchers, academic visitors or trainees, 24 of whom attended international academic activities. |
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Under the leadership of Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and Government, the institute adheres to the essential principle of “the Party Institute always serves the Party” and the school motto of “being loyal, practical and pioneering”. The institute is exerting itself to develop into a nation-top Party and administration institute with the concept of “modernization, wide-comprehension, research and opening-up” to serve as a training and theoretical innovation base and to keep pace with the development of Shanghai into an international metropolis.
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