“Integrity stems from virtue, and incorruptibility from aspiration.” As a cradle for nurturing a new generationof talent, integrity culture construction in higher education serves as both acornerstone for moral education and an essential requirement for fostering a campus ecosystem characterized by integrity and ethical clarity. Recently, Document No. 67 (2025) issued by the Shanghai Education and Health Work Committee announced the list of winners for the Integrity Culture Construction Case (Characteristic Project) among Shanghai universities. The project titled Four-Pronged Integrity Initiative: Multidimensional Development of an Integrity Culture Brand submitted by the School of Economics and Management at Shanghai Zhongqiao Vocational and Technical University was awarded Third Prize.
This accolade reflects the university's commitment to implement the guiding principles of the 20th National Congressof the Communist Party of China and deepening the comprehensive strict governance of the Party. It also highlights the institution's innovative exploration in integrating integrity education with vocational training to cultivate high-quality professionals who excel in both ethics and technical skills.
Four-Pronged Integrity Initiative Empowers Moral Education
The School of Economics and Management hasestablished a four-in-one integrity education system centered onthe Four-Pronged Integrity Initiative — strengthening foundations,advancing projects, preserving integrity through innovation, and deepeningoutcomes —to foster a culture of integrity.
1. Strengthening Foundations: Embedding integrity education into students' daily academic and extracurricular activities through themed group activities, curriculum integration (e.g., incorporating corporate ethics into the Intermediate Financial Accounting course and compliance case studies into Transportation and Warehousing Management), and speech competitions. This ensures the seamlessfusion of professional knowledge with integrity principles.
2. Advancing Projects to Cultivate NewPractices: Developing signature programs such as the Great Love Jinshan Volunteer Service Team and Professional+ Anti-Fraud Awareness Campaigns, extending integrity culture from campus to society and forming an educationalloop that combines classroom learning and practical engagement.
3. Preserving Integrity ThroughInnovation: Reinforcing discipline through weekly dormitory inspections,student handbook education, and new media campaigns, fostering a campus environment that upholds integrity and ethical conduct.
4. Deepening Outcomes and PromotingIntegration: Facilitating organic connections between integrity culture, careerdevelopment, and ideological education via initiatives likeuniversity-enterprise Party-building collaborations (e.g., partnerships withBank of China's Hongqiao Business District Sub-branch) and curriculuminnovation. These efforts cultivate students' self-awareness to understand, uphold, and practice integrity.
Faculty members of the School of Economics and Managementconduct scenario-based integrity education workshops,
integrating integrity culture with career development
Party-member teachers visit the Shanghai Songjiang DistrictAnti-Corruption and Integrity Education Center
In the course "Transportation and Warehousing Management", Yu Wenling from the Modern Logistics Management program integrates integrity education into the teaching content by combining it with professional knowledge points
The School of Economics and Management invited external experts to conduct an in-depth study of the Regulations of the
Communist Party of China on Disciplinary Sanctions
Integrity Culture Drives High-Quality Development
As a benchmark for integrity culture construction in higher education, Shanghai Zhongqiao Vocational and Technical University consistently aligns with national guidelines, including the Opinionson Strengthening Integrity Culture Construction in the New Era. By embedding the comprehensive strict governance of the Party throughout its educational processes and leveraging the Clean Breeze Economics and Management brand, the university has established a new framework for integrity education that involves all stakeholders, spans all stages, and permeates all dimensions.
This award not only recognizes the university's innovative practices in nurturing integrity through cultural influence and institutional reinforcement but also underscores vocational education's role in advancing national governance modernization. Moving forward, the university will deepen the connotation of integrity culture,strengthen institutional safeguards to solidify disciplinary boundaries, and foster a culture that nourishes the hearts and minds of faculty and students. By constructing a trinity mechanism of institutions, culture, and technology and integrating integrity education with industry-academia collaboration, the university aims to cultivate technically skilled professionals with moral excellence, providing robust political assurance fortalent development and contributing Zhongqiao Wisdom to integrity culture construction in the new era.
(Contributed by: Qiu Man, Translated by: Qiu Man)
