Beijing**Client|Reporter Wang Qipeng.
On December 24, the 10th China Social Construction Forum was held at Beijing Normal University. At the opening ceremony, the launch ceremony of the "Series of Textbooks on China's Social Construction in the New Era" was held, which is also the first set of professional textbooks for higher education in social construction in China.
Founded in 2010, the China Social Construction Forum has been held for 10 sessions. The theme of this year's forum is "Practical Innovation and Theoretical Construction of Modernization of Chinese-style Social Construction", which is jointly sponsored by the School of Sociology of Beijing Normal University, the Beijing Institute of Social Construction of Chinese People's University, the Department of Sociology of Peking University, the Institute of Social Governance and Development of Tsinghua University and the Beijing Association for the Promotion of Social Construction. This year's forum featured keynote speeches and parallel forums, and launched the volunteer service project of "College Students Serving Community Development" and the "Grid +" Smart Community Brand Project.
At the opening ceremony, the organizers also held the launch ceremony of the "Series of Textbooks on China's Social Construction in the New Era". It is understood that this set of textbooks is the first set of professional textbooks for higher education in social construction in China, edited by Professor Song Guilun of Beijing Normal University, and published by Chinese Renmin University Press. The first batch of this set of textbooks includes "Introduction to Social Construction", "Introduction to Community Construction", "Introduction to Social Organization Construction", "Introduction to Volunteer Service" and "Introduction to Social Psychological Service".
Song Guilun introduced that this set of textbooks adheres to the guidance of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, based on the practice of Chinese-style modernization, and is an exploration and innovation of China's social construction discipline system and textbook system, and is a set of high-quality textbooks with both theory, practice and originality, which will play a positive role in promoting the training of professional talents such as sociology and management, and the training of party and government cadres and social workers.
It is understood that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China's social construction has focused on ensuring and improving people's livelihood and strengthening and innovating social governance, and has made great progress and progress. By the end of 2022, the total number of social work professionals in China has reached more than 1.6 million, of which 93 are licensed social workers10 thousand. At present, there are 398 colleges and universities in China with social work majors, 185 master's programs and 22 doctoral programs, and nearly 40,000 professional graduates are trained every year. As of the end of May 2023, township (street) social work stations have been built across the country3More than 70,000, 1080,000 social workers have entered the station to provide services, and a nationwide social work service network has been initially formed. Social work has increasingly become an important professional force to improve the level of grassroots social services and help social governance innovation.