On December 8, Hubei Provincial Bureau of Press and Publication announced the evaluation results of the 2022 Hubei Provincial Periodical Development Support Fund. The column of “Welcome the 20th Party Congress” declared by SCMU Journal Editorial Department won the first prize, which was the only one to win that.

Since the 20th Party Congress, the publicity department of Hubei Provincial Party Committee has hit a home run with the publicity around the theme “Learning and Acting in the Spirit of the 20th Party Congress” and has carried out the evaluation of the periodical development support fund projects in terms of organization, content quality, social effect and innovation orientation, resulting in a selection of 15 projects. Besides the first prize, “Life of Party Member” and “School Party Building and Ideology Education” won the second prize, and 12 columns of other periodicals won the third prize.

“Welcome the 20th Party Congress” is one of the annual key planning topics of the Humanities & Social Sciences section of SCMU journal, where the Journal Editorial Department put much effort. In the first three issues of 2022, the Journal Editorial Department planned the column of “Study and Implementation of the Spirit of the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee” in preparation for the column of “Welcome the 20th Party Congress”; from the issue 4, experts and scholars have been invited for a special column, whose 21 high-quality academic articles have already been published as of October; from the 11th and 12th issues, when the column  of “New Ideas, New Assertions, New Deployments and New Requirements” was set up, experts and scholars have been invited to write articles and exchange their learning experiences. In 2023, the column of “Study and Implementation of the spirit of the 20th Party Congress” will continually be updated throughout the year.

In addition, the Journal Editorial Department has also carried out a series of activities with distinctive themes, including young scholars forum, review meetings, symposiums with the theme of “implementing the spirit of the 20th Party Congress”, etc, which have achieved good social benefits and effectively enhanced the influence of the journal.

Edited by Liu Qiong  Reviewed by Pan Wenjun