Contribute Value in Creating New Quality Production Relations
Talents do not stand alone; they grow with challenges. Those who can solve the principal challenges of a country are the country's talents; those who can resolve the major challenges of an enterprise are the enterprise's talents; and those who can tackle the key issues of the scientific and technological community are the talents of that field. Some people feel undervalued because they fail to connect their abilities to solving real-world problems. This applies to individuals as well as institutions. The School of Management must align its mission with addressing the key challenges faced by the nation, universities, businesses, and disciplines.
The development of artificial intelligence, changes in geopolitics, people's aspiration for a better life, and the challenges of sustainable growth in an uncertain environment have brought about changes in the principal challenges of enterprise deve lopment. New quality productive forces are designed to resolve these emerging challenges. The interplay of yin and yang suggests that productivity does not emerge from nothing, nor does it develop in isolation; it is interdependent, mutually restrictive, or mutually reinforcing with the relations of production. The new quality production relations coexist with new quality productive forces. The former mainly relies on science，technology and talents in these fields, while the latter mainly depends on management theories and talents. In the long-term future, the main focus of the School of Management and its faculty will inevitably be to offer knowledge, theories, methods, and talents for the creation of new quality production relations, thereby promoting the formation of new quality productive forces and maximizing their impact.
Management is a practical discipline dedicated to addressing real-world challenges. The School of Management must actively engage at the forefront of national economic development, integrating its research with the most pressing challenges faced by the country and enterprises. Only through this integration can it identify critical issues of strategic value, address fundamental theoretical questions, provide targeted support to enterprises, and cultivate management talents that meet the evolving needs of businesses and society. As part of a top-tier research university under China's “Double First-Class” initiative, the School should anticipate and analyze the key challenges in the development and application of advanced productive forces. By doing so, it can produce influential and pioneering research on new quality production relations. Faculty must move beyond academic isolation and their comfort zones, deeply engaging with the forefront of the development of new quality productive forces, resonate with head enterprises, major projects, key researches, the Belt and Road Initiative, and cutting-edge AI applications, closely collaborate with other disciplines in the university, and prove their academic value in the creation of new quality production relations.
The School of Management also needs to develop new quality productive forces and establish new quality production relations. The ability to support the School's new main focus and solve the new principal challenges in the School's development is its new quality productive forces. Meanwhile, the resource organization and management mechanism that ensures and promotes the exertion of the new quality productive forces is the new quality production relations. While individual and organizational stances may sometimes be inconsistent or even opposite, an effective production relation must unify both. The foundation and driving force of the School's new quality production relations will be material benefits, career platforms, honor, and a sense of mission.
A management school driven by a strong sense of mission, accountability, and leading disciplines in creating new quality production relations can prove its worth by addressing the critical challenges in the development of the country, the university, and enterprises. This is also the only way to maintain its relevance during this once-in-a-century transformative era, ensuring that every individual's potential is fully recognized and valued.
