Recently, in 2019, key projects of the major subjects of Ministry of Education's philosophy and social science research was officially announced.The declaration of the project “Research on Literature arrangement and Database Construction of the Jixia Academy”(Project Approval Number:19JZD011) led by WANG Zhimin(chief expert of project), head of Qi Culture Research Institute of SDUT was approved, which was the first key project for the major subjects of philosophy and social science research and the first national social science major project of the our school approved by the Ministry of Education. As a result, our school had also become the fourth university that obtained this kind of project in Shandong province since the launch of the major project of the Ministry of Education in 2003, after the Shandong University, Ocean University of China, Shandong Normal University.
Jixia Academy was the center of contention of a hundred schools of thought during the warring states period. It includes almost all the important schools and their representatives in the middle and late Warring States period, and has had an important influence on the academic thoughts of the time and later generations. The project “Research on Literature arrangement and Database Construction of the Jixia School of Thought” will systematically study the various schools of Jixia Academy, sort out their documents, compile long-lost documents of Jixia, and comprehensively collect the research data of past dynasties, summarize the research history of Jixia school of thought since the 20th century, construct the database of the literature of Jixia school of thought, in order to solidify the fundamental date of the study of Jixia, to enrich the its research, to promote further development of Qi Culture, to manifest Jixia Academy’s position in the history of Chinese culture and its historical contribution in the axial age of human civilization and establish the important historical position of Jixia Academy.
In recent years, SDUT has attached great importance to the prosperity and development of the humanities and social sciences. The successful approval of this key project further manifests the good development of humanities and social science research in our school. The key projects for the major subjects of philosophy and social sciences of the Ministry of Education and the major projects of the National Social Science Fund are called the highest and most authoritative projects in the field of philosophy and social science research in China, which have become an important indicator for measuring the strength and level of scientific research in universities. It is reported that in 2019, the key projects for major subjects of the Ministry of Education's philosophy and social science research were strictly evaluated by the Department of Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education and then were publicized, and the number of the approved key projects was 49.