The predecessor of Beijing Agricultural College was Hebei Tongxian Agricultural School, which was founded in 1956. In 1958, Hebei Tongxian Agricultural School merged with Beijing Agricultural Cooperative Cadre School and was renamed Beijing Agricultural School. In 1965, Beijing Agricultural Labor University, a half-agriculture and half-study school, was established on the basis of Beijing Agricultural School. In 1978, it was renamed Beijing Agricultural College with the approval of the State Council. The school covers a total area of more than 1,100 acres, with a total building area of more than 290,000 square meters. It has a thousand acres of farms and ten thousand acres of forest farms. In the long-term practice of running schools, the school has forged the school motto of "virtue and practice, extensive knowledge and agriculture" and the school philosophy of "agriculture-oriented, pragmatic and innovative", forming the school characteristics of "urban modern agricultural and forestry higher education", and was selected into the first batch of national excellent agricultural and forestry talent education and training programs and the "2011 Plan" of Beijing municipal universities. It is a higher agricultural and forestry institution with distinctive characteristics and multi-disciplinary integration. The school has been awarded the titles of Beijing Garden-style Unit, Beijing Civilized Campus, Capital Civilized Unit Model, Capital Safe Campus Construction Demonstration School, and National Civilized Unit. The school adheres to the fundamental principle of cultivating people with moral integrity, and strives to cultivate high-quality applied talents with strong social responsibility, solid professional knowledge, innovative entrepreneurial spirit and practical ability, forming a multi-level school-running pattern with coordinated development of undergraduate education, graduate education and continuing education. In 1983, the school was approved as a bachelor's degree awarding unit. In 1984, the school and the Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences jointly recruited master's students for the first time. In 2003, the school was approved as a master's degree awarding unit. In 2015, it was approved as a postdoctoral research workstation. In 2018, it was approved as a new doctoral degree awarding project construction unit in Beijing. At present, the school has 11 secondary colleges and 3 teaching departments, 38 undergraduate enrollment majors (directions), 10 first-level discipline master's programs and 7 professional degree categories. The school insists that talent is the first resource and is committed to building a high-level teaching staff with noble teacher ethics, reasonable structure, superb business and excellent quality. The proportion of full-time teachers with senior professional titles reached 64%, and the proportion of master's degrees and doctoral degrees reached 95%. At present, the school has 3 specially appointed professors such as academicians of the two academies, 9 leading talents of the same level as the winners of the National Outstanding Youth Fund, and 3 young top talents of the same level as the winners of the National Overseas High-level Talents. More than 200 people have been approved for various talent projects such as the State Council Government Allowance, the Ministry of Education's New Century Excellent Talents, Beijing Science and Technology Leading Talents, and Beijing Municipal Hundred Thousand Talents Project. More than 100 people have won honorary titles such as Beijing's Outstanding Communist Party Member, Outstanding Teacher, Teaching Master, Teacher Ethics Pioneer, and Education Pioneer. The modern horticulture teaching team was awarded the "National Huang Danian-style Teaching Team in Colleges and Universities". The school adheres to the development of the capital in the new era as the guide, and constantly adapts to the needs of Beijing's urban modern agricultural development and rural revitalization strategy. The school has now formed a discipline layout with agriculture as its feature, and agriculture, industry, and management as the main disciplines. There are 10 first-level disciplines including horticulture, forestry, crop science, veterinary medicine, animal husbandry, plant protection, bioengineering, food science and engineering, agricultural and forestry economic management, and business administration. Among them, horticulture is a high-tech discipline for Beijing universities, and horticulture, veterinary medicine, and agricultural and forestry economic management are included in the Beijing doctoral program construction plan. The school has 26 national and provincial and ministerial scientific research platforms, 2 national and 4 Beijing-level experimental teaching demonstration centers, 1 national, 5 Beijing-level, 338 school-level off-campus talent training bases and 2 Beijing-level on-campus practice bases. The school's three majors, horticulture, veterinary medicine, and agricultural and forestry economic management, are national specialty construction majors. Four majors, horticulture, agricultural and forestry economic management, gardening, and veterinary medicine, are national first-class undergraduate major construction sites. 13 majors, including food science and engineering, are first-class undergraduate major construction sites in Beijing. Horticulture and veterinary medicine are first-class majors that are key to the construction of Beijing universities. The school has hosted or participated in more than 800 national and provincial and ministerial projects such as the National Key R&D Program and the National Natural Science Foundation. The school has won more than 100 national and provincial awards such as the National Science and Technology Progress Award, the China Youth Science and Technology Award, the Shennong Chinese Agricultural Science and Technology Award, and the Beijing Science and Technology Award. Won more than 30 national and Beijing education and teaching achievement awards. The school insists on strengthening agriculture and revitalizing agriculture as its mission, giving full play to its unique advantages in running schools, and contributing to the capital's comprehensive promotion of rural revitalization and Beijing's leading role in basically realizing agricultural and rural modernization. In accordance with the service positioning of "based in the capital, serving Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, and radiating the whole country", the school plans and layouts around key areas, relies on platforms such as professor workstations, industrial poverty alleviation stations and national university science and technology parks, integrates the school's human resources advantages and professional discipline advantages, and builds a full-industry chain and interdisciplinary social service team, with service areas covering many districts in Beijing. Participated in the preparation of many agricultural-related industrial plans and regional development plans, 11 science and technology courtyards were selected into the list of joint support and construction by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and the China Association for Science and Technology, and the case of teachers and students serving rural revitalization was selected twice by the United Nations as the best global poverty reduction case, and was selected as a typical project of precise assistance for provincial universities under the Ministry of Education for three consecutive terms. The school continuously strengthens and improves party building and ideological and political work, insists on leading high-quality development with high-quality party building, and promotes ideological and political work to be integrated into the entire process of talent training and various teaching links, and into students' scientific research practice and social practice. It has carried out in-depth activities such as the "Red 1+1" demonstration activities, social practice and volunteer services of Beijing universities, and has been rated as an advanced unit of social practice in the capital universities for 16 consecutive years, and has won the national "Three Going to the Countryside" social practice advanced unit 6 times, and won the "National Women's Advanced Collective" 4 times. It has been awarded the honorary titles of "the first batch of national model party branches for party building work" and "one hundred model party branches for graduate students". Over the past 60 years since its establishment, the school has trained a large number of outstanding graduates who have taken root in the grassroots, worked hard and diligently, and have become the backbone of the capital's economic and social development, especially the development of the agricultural industry. Among them, a group of outstanding government managers, outstanding experts and scholars in the field of agriculture, and influential agricultural entrepreneurs have emerged. Beijing Agricultural College has now become an important base for the cultivation of urban modern agricultural talents in Beijing and a technical service center for national modern agricultural demonstration areas. In the new era and new journey, the school will take Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as its guide, thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the spirit of the 13th Party Congress of Beijing, take new quality productivity as its guide, focus on the "1956" development strategy and measures determined by the Fourth Party Congress of the school, and comprehensively promote the implementation of the "five major projects" to unite and strive for the early establishment of a first-class domestic and internationally renowned high-level applied university with urban agriculture and forestry characteristics! (Data statistics as of March 2024) Charter of Beijing Agricultural College (approved by Beijing Municipal Education Commission on February 14, 2017) Amended according to the "Reply of Beijing Municipal Education Commission on Approval of the Amendment of Some Articles of the Charter of Beijing Agricultural College" on November 11, 2022) Preface Beijing Agricultural College (hereinafter referred to as the "School") was founded in 1956 as Tongxian Agricultural School in Hebei Province. In 1958, Tongxian Agricultural School and Beijing Agricultural Cooperative Cadre School merged to form Beijing Agricultural School. In 1965, it was renamed Beijing Agricultural Labor University. In December 1978, the State Council approved the establishment of Beijing Agricultural College. In 1983, it was identified as the second batch of national bachelor's degree-granting institutions. In 2003, it was approved to become a master's degree-granting institution. In 2014, it was selected as the first batch of pilot universities for the Excellent Agricultural and Forestry Talent Education and Training Program. In 2020, the school was positioned as a high-level applied university. Beijing Agricultural University has always kept in mind the background of "agriculture, rural areas and farmers" in its history of running schools, and insisted on "writing papers on the land outside Beijing", making important contributions to the national "agriculture, rural areas and farmers" cause and the development of the capital, and has gained recognized social influence and academic reputation. Looking to the future, Beijing Agricultural University will adhere to the overall leadership of the Party, take moral education as its foundation, take strengthening agriculture and promoting agriculture as its mission, actively explore the construction model of high-level applied universities, and strive to make new and greater contributions to the development of the country and the capital. Chapter I General Provisions Article 1 In order to ensure that the school runs schools in accordance with the law and manages itself independently, and establish and improve the system of modern agricultural and forestry universities with Chinese characteristics, this charter is formulated in accordance with the provisions of the "Education Law of the People's Republic of China", "Higher Education Law of the People's Republic of China" and "Interim Measures for the Formulation of Charters of Higher Education Institutions", combined with the actual situation of the school. Article 2 The Chinese name of the school is Beijing Agricultural University, abbreviated as Beinong; the English name is Beijing University of Agriculture, abbreviated as BUA. Article 3 The legal registration address of the school is: No. 7 Beinong Road, Shigezhuang Street, Changping District, Beijing. The school website is www.bua.edu.cn. Article 4 The school is a full-time general higher education institution organized by the Beijing Municipal People's Government, and the competent department is the Beijing Municipal Education Commission. The Beijing Municipal People's Government provides school funding and policy support for the development of the school, guarantees the basic conditions for the school to run, supports the school to run independently in accordance with laws, regulations, rules and school charters, and protects the legitimate rights and interests of the school. Article 5 The school is a non-profit institution established in accordance with the law, with independent non-profit legal person status, and the principal is the legal representative of the school. The school shall independently operate the school, manage its internal affairs and bear legal responsibilities in accordance with the law, mainly as follows: (1) formulate and implement the school development strategy plan; (2) formulate admission plans in accordance with laws, regulations and school conditions in response to social needs; (3) independently set up and adjust disciplines and majors; (4) independently carry out scientific research, technological development and social services; (5) strengthen textbook construction and management, and improve the school's textbook management system and work mechanism; (6) strengthen internal supervision and improve the education quality assurance and evaluation system; (7) independently carry out exchanges and cooperation with domestic and foreign universities, research institutions, enterprises and local governments; (8) independently manage and use the property, financial subsidies, donated property and facilities and funds provided by the state and the Beijing Municipal People's Government; (9) collect tuition and related fees in accordance with the law; (10) refuse any organization or individual's illegal interference in educational and teaching activities; (11) other school autonomy granted by law. Article 6 The school adheres to and strengthens the overall leadership of the Party, holds high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, takes Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the important thought of "Three Represents", the Scientific Outlook on Development, and Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as guidance, deeply understands the decisive significance of "two establishments", strengthens the "four consciousnesses", strengthens the "four self-confidences", and achieves "two safeguards", comprehensively implements the Party's basic theory, basic line, and basic strategy, comprehensively implements the Party's education policy, insists that education serves the people, serves the Chinese Communist Party's governance, serves to consolidate and develop the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, serves reform and opening up and socialist modernization, adheres to educating people for the Party and cultivating talents for the country, and cultivates socialist builders and successors with all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor. Article 7 The school's main form of education is full-time undergraduate education, moderately develops graduate education, innovatively develops continuing education, and strives to develop international education. Article 8 The school takes talent cultivation as the fundamental task of running a school, features urban modern agricultural and forestry higher education, and is committed to cultivating compound application-oriented agricultural and forestry talents with high comprehensive quality, reasonable knowledge structure, strong practical ability, innovative spirit, and entrepreneurial ability. Chapter IIArticle 9 of the School Management System The school implements the principal responsibility system under the leadership of the Beijing Agricultural College Committee of the Communist Party of China (hereinafter referred to as the "school party committee") in accordance with the law. The school party committee comprehensively leads the school's work, supports the principal to actively, independently and responsibly carry out work in accordance with regulations, and ensures the completion of various tasks such as teaching, scientific research, and administrative management. The school party committee implements democratic centralism and improves the system of combining collective leadership with individual division of labor and responsibility. All major issues should be discussed and decided by the party committee in accordance with the principles of collective leadership, democratic centralism, individual deliberation, and meeting decisions; members of the party committee should earnestly perform their duties in accordance with the collective decision and division of labor. Article 10 The school party committee is elected by the school party member congress or party member representative congress, and each term of office is five years. The party member representative congress implements a term system. The school party committee assumes the main responsibility for managing the party and running the school, setting the direction, managing the overall situation, making decisions, grasping the team, leading the team, and ensuring implementation. The main responsibilities are: (i) to firmly safeguard the authority and centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, to put the political construction of the Party in the first place, to resolutely implement the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the decisions of the higher-level Party organizations, to adhere to the socialist direction of running schools, to promote the Party's propositions and major decisions into rules and regulations and the consensus of teachers and students, to ensure the implementation of the Party's theories, lines, principles and policies in schools, and to cultivate socialist builders and successors with all-round development of morality, intelligence, physique, aesthetics and labor; (ii) to strengthen theoretical armed forces, to learn, understand, and implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and to guide Party members, cadres, teachers and students to strengthen their ideals, beliefs and purposes; (iii) to adhere to democratic centralism, to implement the principle of the Party managing cadres and talents, to strengthen the construction of a high-quality and professional cadre team that is loyal, clean and responsible, to strengthen the construction of grassroots Party organizations and Party member teams, to focus on improving the quality of intra-Party activities and Party organizational life, and to do a good job in talent work; (iv) to strengthen the construction of school Party organizations in accordance with the requirements of the Party's self-management and comprehensive and strict governance of the Party. Implement the responsibility system for grassroots party building work, give full play to the role of the grassroots party organizations of the school as a fighting fortress and the vanguard and exemplary role of party members; (V) Strengthen and improve work style, implement the spirit of the Central Committee's eight regulations, continue to rectify the "four winds", especially formalism and bureaucracy, and oppose the idea of privilege and the phenomenon of privilege; (VI) Strengthen the party's discipline construction, fulfill the main responsibility of party style and clean government construction, support the discipline inspection and supervision organs to perform their supervisory responsibilities, and promote the integration of not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt; (VII) Lead the school's ideological and political work and moral education work, adhere to the overall national security concept, coordinate development and security, implement the responsibility system for ideological work, maintain school safety and stability, and vigorously build a safe and harmonious campus; (VIII) Strengthen the leadership of mass organizations such as the school labor union, the Communist Youth League, the student union, and the faculty and staff congress; (IX) Do a good job in the united front work. Implement political leadership over the grassroots organizations of democratic parties in the school and support them to carry out activities in accordance with their respective charters. Support non-party members and other members of the united front to participate in related activities of the united front and play an active role. Strengthen the work of non-party intellectuals and the construction of a team of non-party representatives. Strengthen ethnic and religious work, carry out in-depth education on building a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation, and resolutely prevent and resist all kinds of illegal missionary and infiltration activities; (10) Adhere to the planning, deployment and assessment of party building and business work, review and determine the basic management system of the school, discuss and decide on major issues in the school's reform, development and stability as well as teaching, scientific research and administrative management. Article 11 The Discipline Inspection Committee of the Communist Party of China Beijing Agricultural College is the school's internal party supervision agency and performs the duties of supervision, discipline enforcement and accountability. The main responsibilities are: (a) to uphold the Party Constitution and other Party regulations, to check the implementation of the Party’s lines, principles, policies and resolutions, to assist the school party committee in promoting comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, strengthening Party conduct and organizing and coordinating anti-corruption work; (b) to regularly educate Party members on observing discipline and make decisions on upholding Party discipline; (c) to supervise the performance of duties and exercise of power by Party organizations and Party member leading cadres, to accept and handle reports and complaints from Party members and the public, to conduct talks, reminders, interviews and inquiries; (d) to inspect and handle relatively important or complex cases of Party organizations and Party members violating the Party Constitution and other Party regulations, to decide or cancel the punishment of Party members in these cases; to hold them accountable or to make suggestions for accountability; (e) to accept complaints and appeals from Party members and to protect the rights of Party members from infringement. The school discipline inspection commission shall handle clues and cases of violations of Party discipline in strict accordance with its duties, powers and work procedures, and report the problems and results of handling particularly important or complex cases to the Party committee at the same level and the higher-level discipline inspection commission. Article 12 The Office of the Supervisory Commissioner of the Beijing Municipal Supervision Commission stationed at Beijing Agricultural College is co-located with the Discipline Inspection Commission of the Communist Party of China at Beijing Agricultural College. The main responsibilities are: (a) Implement the major decisions and arrangements of the superior supervisory committee, and perform the duties of supervision, investigation and disposal in accordance with the law in accordance with the "Supervision Law of the People's Republic of China" and the authorization of the superior supervisory committee; (b) Supervise and inspect the supervision objects' performance of duties in accordance with the law, impartial use of power, clean politics and work, and moral integrity, investigate the suspected cases of duty violations by the supervision objects under the management of the school in accordance with relevant regulations, and deal with them in accordance with laws and regulations; (c) Hold the supervision objects who fail to perform their duties and neglect their duties accountable according to the authority, or make accountability suggestions to the units that have the power to make accountability decisions; (d) Make supervision suggestions on the problems of clean government construction and performance of duties in the units where the supervision objects are located; (e) Accept letters and visits and reports on suspected violations of discipline or duty violations and duty crimes by the supervision objects; (six) Strengthen the daily education, management and supervision of supervision cadres; (seven) Organize and carry out education and publicity work on relevant policies, laws and regulations. Article 13 The principal of a school shall be a citizen who meets the statutory conditions for the position, shall be elected in accordance with the relevant provisions of the state and Beijing, and shall be appointed by the Beijing Municipal People's Government. Under the leadership of the school party committee, the principal organizes and implements the relevant resolutions of the school party committee, exercises the various powers stipulated in the Higher Education Law, and is fully responsible for teaching, scientific research, and administrative management. The principal's main responsibilities are: (a) Organize the formulation and implementation of the school's development plan, basic management system, important administrative rules and regulations, major teaching and scientific research reform measures, and important school resource allocation plans. Organize the formulation and implementation of specific rules and regulations and annual work plans; (b) Organize the formulation and implementation of the establishment plan of the school's internal administrative organization. In accordance with national laws and relevant regulations on cadre selection and appointment, recommend candidates for vice presidents and appoint and remove heads of internal organizations; (c) Organize the formulation and implementation of the school's talent development plan, important talent policies, and major talent project plans. Be responsible for the construction of the teaching staff, and appoint and dismiss teachers and other internal staff in accordance with relevant regulations; (d) Organize the formulation and implementation of major basic construction plans, annual budget plans, and other plans for the school. Strengthen financial management and audit supervision, manage and protect school assets; (v) Organize and carry out teaching activities and scientific research, innovate talent training mechanisms, improve the quality of talent training, promote cultural inheritance and innovation, serve the national and local economic and social development, make the school distinctive and strive to be first-class; (vi) Organize and carry out ideological and moral education, be responsible for student enrollment management and implement rewards or penalties, and carry out enrollment and employment work; (vii) Do a good job in school safety, stability and logistics support; (viii) Organize and carry out foreign exchanges and cooperation with the school, represent the school in signing cooperation agreements with governments at all levels, all sectors of society and overseas institutions in accordance with the law, and accept social donations; (ix) Report to the Party Committee on the implementation of major resolutions, report work to the Faculty and Staff Congress, and organize the handling of proposals on administrative work related to the Faculty and Staff Congress, the Student Congress, the Trade Union Member Congress and the League Member Congress. Support the work of party organizations at all levels, grassroots organizations of democratic parties, mass organizations and academic organizations in the school; (ten) Perform other powers prescribed by laws, regulations and school charters. Article 14 The school makes decisions on major matters and major issues through the Party Committee Plenary Session, the Party Committee Standing Committee Meeting and the President's Office Meeting. Article 15 The plenary session of the school party committee (hereinafter referred to as the "plenary session") leads the school work during the adjournment of the party member congress (party member representative congress). It mainly makes decisions on major issues of overall significance such as the reform, development, stability of the school, the vital interests of teachers, students and staff, and party building, and listens to and deliberates on the work reports of the Standing Committee and the Discipline Inspection Commission. The meeting is convened by the Standing Committee and the agenda is determined by the Standing Committee. The plenary session can only be held if two-thirds or more of the members are present. When voting on matters, approval is deemed to be obtained with more than half of the number of members who should be present. The rules of procedure for the plenary session of the school will be formulated separately. Article 16 The Party Committee shall establish a Standing Committee (hereinafter referred to as the Party Committee Standing Committee). The Standing Committee shall preside over the regular work of the Party Committee, mainly making decisions on important matters in the reform, development, stability, teaching, scientific research, administrative management and party building of the school, and recommending, nominating and deciding on the appointment and removal of cadres in accordance with the cadre management authority and relevant procedures. The Standing Committee meeting is convened and presided over by the Party Committee Secretary. The meeting agenda is proposed by members of the school leadership team and determined by the Party Committee Secretary. Meetings can only be held if more than half of the Standing Committee members are present; when discussing and deciding important matters such as cadre appointments and removals, two-thirds or more of the Standing Committee members must be present. When voting on matters, approval is deemed to be achieved if more than half of the Standing Committee members present agree. Members of the administrative leadership team who are not members of the Party Committee Standing Committee may attend the meeting. The rules of procedure for the school Standing Committee meetings will be formulated separately. Article 17 The Office of the PrincipalThe meeting is the school's administrative deliberative and decision-making body. It mainly studies and proposes plans for important matters to be discussed and decided by the Party Committee, specifically deploys relevant measures to implement the Party Committee's resolutions, and studies and handles teaching, scientific research, and administrative management. The meeting is convened and presided over by the principal. The meeting members are generally members of the school's administrative leadership team. The meeting agenda is proposed by members of the school's leadership team and determined by the principal. The meeting can only be held if more than half of the members are present. The principal should make decisions on the matters discussed and studied based on extensive listening to the opinions of the participants. The rules of procedure for the school principal's office meeting will be formulated separately. Article 18 The school shall establish an academic committee. The academic committee is the highest academic institution of the school. It is generally composed of senior professional and technical personnel in different disciplines and majors of the school and a certain proportion of young teachers. Among them, the number of members holding party and government leadership positions in the school and functional departments shall not exceed one-quarter of the total number, and the number of full-time professors who do not hold party and government leadership positions and are not the main leaders of colleges and departments shall not be less than one-half of the total number. Responsible for the overall exercise of the decision-making, review, evaluation and consultation powers of academic affairs, review of discipline construction, professional setting, teaching and scientific research plans, evaluation of teaching and scientific research results, review of teacher qualifications, acceptance of academic disputes, investigation and identification of academic misconduct, review and decision on other matters related to academic development, academic evaluation and academic norms in accordance with the charter, and handling other related academic matters. The Academic Committee implements a regular meeting system. The principle of minority obeys the majority is implemented in deliberation and decision-making. Major matters must be approved with the consent of more than 2/3 of the members present. The members of the Academic Committee are selected through democratic recommendation from the bottom up, open and fair selection, etc., and are determined by democratic election and other procedures, reflecting the opinions of grassroots academic organizations and the majority of teachers. The members of the Academic Committee are appointed by the president and implement a term system. The Academic Committee has one chairman and may have several vice-chairmen as needed. The chairman can be nominated by the president and elected by all members; or it can be directly elected by all members. Specially invited members of the Academic Committee are nominated by the president, the chairman of the Academic Committee or more than 1/3 of the members of the Academic Committee, and are determined after the consent of the Academic Committee. The Academic Committee shall carry out its work in accordance with its own charter and exercise its powers independently. Article 19 The school shall establish a degree evaluation committee. The degree evaluation committee is the decision-making body for the school's degree affairs. It is mainly responsible for the evaluation, granting and revocation of degrees, reviewing the establishment of disciplines, discipline evaluation and discipline adjustment, reviewing graduate student enrollment plans and graduate student training plans, selecting graduate student supervisors, handling degree disputes, and auditing and other related matters. The school's degree evaluation committee shall have one chairman, who shall be the president. Several vice chairmen may be appointed as needed. The members shall be composed of the heads of relevant institutions and relevant personnel. The school's degree evaluation committee shall carry out its work in accordance with its own work procedures. Article 20 The school shall establish relevant special committees as needed, and each committee shall perform its duties according to the authorization of the school. Article 21 The school's faculty and staff representative conference is the basic form for all faculty and staff led by the Party Committee to participate in the school's democratic management and supervision in accordance with the law. The school uses organizational forms such as the faculty and staff representative conference with teachers as the main body to ensure that faculty and staff participate in the school's democratic management and democratic supervision and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of faculty and staff. The school shall formulate the school's faculty and staff representative conference regulations in accordance with relevant national laws and regulations. The number of teachers in the staff and workers congress shall not be less than 60% of the total number of representatives, and there shall be a certain proportion of young teachers and female teachers. The staff and workers congress of the school shall exercise the following powers: (a) to listen to the report on the formulation and revision of the draft of the school constitution, and put forward opinions and suggestions for revision; (b) to listen to the report on the school development plan, the construction of the teaching staff team, the education and teaching reform, the campus construction and other major reforms and problem-solving solutions, and put forward opinions and suggestions; (c) to listen to the school's annual work, financial work, trade union work report and other special work reports, and put forward opinions and suggestions; (d) to discuss and approve the welfare and on-campus distribution implementation plan directly related to the interests of the teaching staff, as well as the corresponding teaching staff appointment, assessment, reward and punishment measures, etc. proposed by the school; (e) to review the handling report of the proposals of the previous staff and workers congress; (f) to evaluate the school's leading cadres in accordance with relevant work regulations and arrangements; (g) to put forward opinions and suggestions on the school's work through various means, supervise the implementation of the school's constitution, rules and regulations and decisions, and put forward rectification opinions and suggestions; (eight) to discuss other matters stipulated by laws, regulations and rules and agreed upon by the school and the school union. During the recess of the school staff congress, its executive committee shall perform its duties on its behalf. The school implements a two-level staff congress system. Ensure that faculty and staff participate in the democratic management and democratic supervision of the unit. Article 22 The school shall establish mass organizations such as trade unions, the Communist Youth League, student unions, and graduate student unions in accordance with the law. Under the leadership of the school party committee, trade unions, the Communist Youth League, student unions, graduate student unions and other mass organizations shall independently carry out their work within the scope prescribed by laws, administrative regulations and school rules and regulations in accordance with their respective charters and participate in the democratic management of the school. Explore the establishment of legal services or assistance agencies for teachers and students to provide consultation and services for teachers and students to safeguard their rights and interests in accordance with the law. Article 23 The school party committee exercises political leadership over the grassroots organizations of democratic parties in the school, supports democratic parties and social groups to carry out activities in accordance with their respective charters, and supports non-party members and other members of the united front to participate in related activities of the united front and play an active role. Chapter III Secondary Unit Management System Article 24 The school implements an internal management system with school and college (department) management as the main two-level management. Colleges (departments) are the grassroots units for the school to organize and implement teaching, scientific research and social services. The college (department) accepts the unified leadership of the school and enjoys the rights of organizing school activities, personnel management and resource allocation within the scope of the school's authorization. The school's directly affiliated units and scientific research units with independent systems shall refer to the college's management model and manage themselves within the scope of the school's authorization. Article 25 The school shall set up party and government functional agencies, teaching and scientific research institutions, etc. according to actual needs. Each institution shall perform management, guarantee and service duties around the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people according to the school's authorization. Article 26 The college (department) implements the party and government joint meeting system to study or make decisions on major issues and important matters in the development of the unit. The meeting is composed of the dean (director) of the college (department), the secretary of the general party branch (direct party branch), the vice dean (deputy director), the deputy secretary of the general party branch (direct party branch) and other relevant personnel. The rules of procedure for the party and government joint meeting of the college (department) shall be formulated separately. Article 27 The dean (director) of the college (department) is the administrative person in charge of the unit and is fully responsible for the teaching, scientific research, discipline construction, talent team construction, foreign exchanges and administrative management of the unit; according to work needs, a vice dean (deputy director) shall be set up to assist the dean (director) in performing his duties. Article 28 The Party organizations of the secondary units shall carry out their work under the leadership of the school party committee. They shall strengthen their political functions, perform their political responsibilities, ensure the completion of various tasks such as teaching, scientific research and management, support the work of the administrative leadership team and the person in charge of the unit, and improve the working mechanism of collective leadership, division of labor and cooperation between the Party and the government, and coordinated operation. The main responsibilities are: (a) to publicize and implement the Party’s line, principles, policies and resolutions of the superior Party organizations, and play a role in guaranteeing and supervising their implementation; (b) to discuss and decide important matters of the unit through the joint meeting of the Party and the government. Convene a meeting of the Party organization to study and decide on the Party building work such as the appointment of cadres and the construction of the Party member team. Matters involving the direction of running the school, the construction of the teaching staff, and the vital interests of teachers, students and staff shall be studied and discussed by the Party organization before being submitted to the joint meeting of the Party and the government for decision; (c) to strengthen the construction of the Party organization itself, establish and improve the system of regular meetings of the Party branch secretary, and specifically guide the work of the Party branch; (d) to lead the ideological and political work of the unit, strengthen the construction of teachers’ ethics and style, and implement the responsibility system for ideological work. Keep a tight grip on the political aspects of important work such as teacher introduction, curriculum construction, textbook selection, and academic activities; (V) Do a good job in the education and management of party members and cadres of the unit, and do a good job in the education and guidance of talents and contact and service work; (VI) Lead the group organizations, academic organizations and faculty and staff congresses of the unit. Do a good job in the united front work. Article 29 The administrative person in charge responsibility system shall be implemented in the units directly under the school and the affiliated units. The person in charge of the party organization shall be responsible for the party affairs of the unit and participate in the decision-making of major issues and important matters. Article 30 The party and government functional departments of the school shall implement the departmental leadership responsibility system. Article 31 The college shall establish academic organizations such as the college academic committee to give full play to the role of teachers in teaching, scientific research and management, carry out work under the authorization and leadership of the school-level academic organization, and evaluate and decide on academic issues in teaching and scientific research under the leadership of the dean. The college academic committee is composed of college leaders and experts and professors of the college, mainly experts and professors. Members should have deputy senior titles or above. The candidates shall be recommended by the dean and the general party branch secretary in consultation on the basis of mass recommendations, and a recommendation list shall be proposed, which shall be discussed and decided by the party and government joint meeting and reported to the school academic committee for filing. Each term of the college academic committee is four years. They can be re-elected, but the number of re-elected members shall not exceed two-thirds of the total number of members of the previous term. The College Academic Committee shall have one secretary, who shall be the College Scientific Research Secretary in principle, to handle the daily affairs of the College Academic Committee. Chapter 4Article 32 The faculty and staff of a school shall consist of teachers, administrative staff, teaching assistants, other professional and technical personnel, and service personnel. Article 33 The faculty and staff of a school shall enjoy the following rights: (a) to use the public resources of the school fairly according to their job responsibilities and needs, and to enjoy welfare benefits in accordance with relevant regulations; (b) to obtain fair opportunities and conditions for their own development, such as participating in training, conducting scientific research, and conducting academic exchanges; (c) to obtain fair evaluation in terms of morality, ability, and performance, and to obtain various awards and honorary titles at all levels; (d) to enjoy the right to know, participate, express, and supervise the school's education, teaching, and management work. To be aware of the school's reform, construction, and development, as well as major matters concerning personal interests; (e) to participate in the democratic management of the school, and to put forward opinions and suggestions on the school's work; (f) to express objections, apply for review, and lodge appeals on matters such as positions, welfare benefits, awards, and disciplinary sanctions in accordance with relevant national regulations; (g) other rights stipulated by laws, regulations, employment contracts, and the school. Article 34 The teaching staff of the school shall perform the following obligations: (a) abide by the law and love the country, consciously resist wrong words and deeds; focus on talent training, strictly abide by the "Code of Professional Ethics for Teachers in Higher Education Institutions" and school rules and regulations, constantly improve ideological and political awareness and education and teaching level, and be a role model for others; (b) carry forward the core socialist values, strengthen the ideals and beliefs education and patriotism education for students; (c) consciously cherish and maintain the honor of the school and safeguard the interests of the school; (d) care for and love students, and respect students' personality; (e) stop, criticize and resist behaviors that are harmful to students or other behaviors that infringe on students' legitimate rights and interests; (f) other obligations stipulated by laws, regulations, employment contracts and the school. Article 35 The school shall establish the Party Committee Teacher Work Department, which is mainly responsible for coordinating the ideological and political work of the school teachers under the leadership of the school party committee, and coordinating with relevant departments to carry out the school's teacher ethics and style construction work, and improve the long-term mechanism for teacher ethics and style construction. Article 36 The school shall assess the ideological and political performance, professional ethics, professional level and work performance of the teaching staff, and the assessment results shall be used as the basis for appointment or dismissal, promotion, demotion, reward or punishment. Faculty and staff who violate laws, regulations, school rules and regulations or employment contracts shall be given corresponding sanctions in accordance with the provisions of laws, regulations, school rules and regulations or handled in accordance with the employment contract. The school shall establish a teacher appeal or mediation committee to promptly mediate disputes between teachers and the school and relevant functional departments due to duties and rights, job evaluation and appointment, annual assessment, treatment and rewards and punishments, or opinions on the school's management system and normative documents, and make appeal conclusions or mediation opinions. Article 37 The school shall protect the rights and welfare benefits of faculty and staff in accordance with the law and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of faculty and staff. The school respects the creative activities of faculty and staff, protects academic freedom, and provides necessary conditions and guarantees for faculty and staff to carry out teaching, scientific research and social service activities. The school shall establish and improve various types of continuing education and training systems to provide a platform for career development for faculty and staff. Chapter V Students Article 38 Students refer to those who are admitted by the school in accordance with the law and regulations, obtain admission qualifications, and receive school education. They are divided into general higher education students, adult higher education students, and other types of educated persons such as on-the-job learning and on-campus training. Article 39 Students of general higher education shall enjoy the following rights: (1) participate in various activities arranged by the school's education and teaching plan, and use the education and teaching resources provided by the school; (2) participate in social practice, volunteer service, work-study, cultural and sports, science and technology and cultural innovation and other activities, and obtain employment and entrepreneurship guidance and services; (3) apply for scholarships, grants, student loans or tuition reduction; (4) obtain scientific and fair evaluation in terms of ideology and morality, academic performance, and comprehensive quality, and obtain corresponding academic certificates and degree certificates after completing the prescribed studies of the school; (5) organize and participate in student groups on campus, participate in school management in an appropriate manner, and enjoy the right to know, participate, express and supervise matters related to the school and students' rights and interests; (6) if they have objections to the treatment or punishment given by the school, they shall file a complaint with the school and the education administrative department, and file a complaint or initiate a lawsuit in accordance with the law against the school, faculty and staff for infringing their personal rights, property rights and other legitimate rights and interests; (7) other rights prescribed by laws, regulations and school charters. Article 40 Students of ordinary higher education shall fulfill the following obligations: (a) abide by the Constitution and laws and regulations; (b) abide by the school charter and rules and regulations; (c) abide by academic ethics and complete the prescribed academic studies; (d) pay tuition and related fees as required and fulfill the corresponding obligations of obtaining loans and grants; (e) abide by the student code of conduct, respect teachers and elders, and develop good ideological and moral character and behavioral habits. Article 41 The school pays attention to the comprehensive cultivation of students and promotes their all-round development. The school shall commend and reward students who have made comprehensive development in moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and labor aspects or have outstanding performance in ideological and moral character, academic performance, scientific and technological innovation, social practice, labor practice, volunteer service, literary and artistic activities, sports and other aspects. Students who have violated laws, regulations and disciplines shall be criticized and educated or disciplined. Article 42 The school shall establish a mechanism for protecting students' rights and interests and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of students in accordance with the law. Article 43 The school supports student organizations such as the Student Union and Graduate Student Union elected by the Student Representative Congress to carry out activities in accordance with their charters. Students may organize student associations in accordance with relevant regulations and carry out activities within the scope prescribed by laws, regulations and the school. Article 44 The school provides students with academic, innovation and entrepreneurship guidance and services, as well as mental health education and consultation, and provides employment guidance and services for students. Article 45 The rights and obligations of those who receive other types of continuing education, such as adult education, on-the-job learning, and on-campus training, shall be implemented in accordance with the relevant regulations of the school or otherwise agreed upon. Chapter VI School and Society Article 46 The school actively fulfills its responsibilities of serving the society, cultural inheritance and innovation, and promotes economic development, social progress and cultural prosperity through activities such as talent training, consulting training, achievement transformation, science and technology promotion, and popularization of science, and provides service guarantees for the society and related industries. Article 47 The school actively establishes and improves a multi-level and all-round school-running mechanism of school-government cooperation, school-enterprise cooperation, school-school cooperation, school-science cooperation, and international cooperation, strengthens exchanges and cooperation with the government, enterprises, industries, universities, research institutes, and relevant international organizations and institutions, and strives for broad support. Article 48 Alumni refers to students who have studied at Beijing Agricultural College for more than three months, faculty and staff who have been transferred, and people from all walks of life who have been awarded honorary degrees and honorary titles by the school (honorary professors, visiting professors, part-time professors, etc.). The school shall establish the "Beijing Agricultural College Alumni Association" in accordance with the law, and the alumni association shall carry out activities in accordance with relevant national regulations and charters. The school encourages and supports alumni to establish alumni branches with class, industry and regional characteristics. Article 49 The school supports the alumni association to play the role of a bridge and link, contact and serve alumni, care about the development of alumni, and provide assistance to alumni's work and study. Alumni are encouraged to participate in the construction of a high-level applied modern agricultural and forestry university with urban characteristics. The school will award relevant honorary titles to alumni who have made outstanding contributions. Article 50 The school shall establish a board of directors according to development needs. The board of directors is an advisory body for the school to open up to the society. It is a bridge and link to gather industry resources and conduct social exchanges. The candidates for directors are recommended by the president, reviewed by the president's office meeting, and approved by the school party committee standing committee meeting. The board of directors carries out activities in accordance with its charter. Article 51 The school shall implement information disclosure systems such as party affairs disclosure and school affairs disclosure in accordance with laws and regulations, release school information to the society in a timely manner, and accept supervision and evaluation from organizers, administrative departments and society. Chapter VIIInvestment and Guarantee Article 52 The school implements a funding mechanism that is mainly based on fiscal appropriation income, supplemented by business income, income from affiliated units, operating income, investment income and other income. The school strictly practices thrift and actively expands funding sources, and raises school funds through multiple channels and levels in accordance with the law. Article 53 The school enjoys the right to manage intangible assets such as the school name, school reputation, logo, and scientific and technological achievements in accordance with the law. Article 54 The state-owned assets of the school include current assets, fixed assets, projects under construction, intangible assets, foreign investments and other assets. Article 55 The school implements specific management of state-owned assets in possession and use, standardizes state-owned asset management behavior; reasonably allocates and effectively uses state-owned assets; prevents the loss of state-owned assets, and ensures the safety, integrity and value preservation and appreciation of state-owned assets. Article 56 The school implements a financial management system of "unified leadership and centralized management". Establish and improve financial management systems and internal control systems, clarify financial power and expenditure responsibilities, prevent and control economic activity risks, and ensure the safety of funds. Optimize the expenditure structure, fully implement budget performance management, and improve the efficiency of fund use. Accept supervision from the competent authorities and financial, auditing and other departments in accordance with the law. Article 57 The school adheres to the leadership of the Party in audit work, establishes an audit agency, establishes and improves the internal audit system, and accepts the business guidance and supervision of the audit agency and the superior competent department. The school audit agency implements independent and objective supervision, evaluation and suggestions on the financial revenue and expenditure, economic activities, internal control and risk management of the school and its affiliated units. Article 58 The school continuously improves the logistics service guarantee system to provide guarantees for the study, work and life of students and faculty and staff. Chapter 8 School Logo Article 59 The main shape of the school emblem adopts a concentric ring pattern, which looks like a dynamic wheel, implying the school's rolling forward development trend; the upper part between the two rings is the school's Chinese Mao-style handwritten name, and the lower part is the English school name "Beijing University of Agriculture"; the inner design of the logo is a combination of wheat ears and books, and below it is the school's starting year "1956"; wheat ears symbolize agriculture, and books symbolize knowledge. The combination of wheat ears and books implies that the students of Beijing Agricultural University are rooted in the soil of knowledge and grow strong by absorbing the power of knowledge; the color of the pattern is dark green, which means life and hope. Article 60 The school flag is a rectangular flag, which adopts the school's standard color of dark green, and is printed with the full name of the school in Chinese and English and the school emblem. Article 61 The school song of the school is "Green Hope", and the school anniversary is the third Saturday of October every year. Article 62 The school motto is "Virtue and Practice, Broad Learning and Agriculture". Chapter 9 Supplementary Provisions Article 63 After soliciting opinions from the school's faculty and staff representative conference, this charter shall be discussed and approved by the school's principal's office meeting, discussed and approved by the school's party committee, and reported to the Beijing Municipal Education Commission for approval and the Ministry of Education for filing. The revision of this charter shall be proposed by the Standing Committee of the Party Committee, and the revision procedure of the charter shall refer to the formulation procedure. Article 64 This charter is the basic norm for the operation of the school, and other rules and regulations within the school should be formulated, modified and improved in accordance with this charter. Article 65 This charter is approved by the Beijing Municipal Education Commission and will be implemented from the date of the school's promulgation. The Standing Committee of the Party Committee of the school is responsible for interpreting this charter, and the school's faculty and staff representative conference supervises its implementation.
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