The Party School of Shanghai Municipal Committee and Shanghai Administration College implement the system of "two brands and one institution", which is a comprehensive education and training base for leading cadres in Shanghai and an education and training institution for middle and senior civil servants and post-civil servants in Shanghai. The Party School of Shanghai Municipal Committee was founded in June, 1949. It was cancelled during the Cultural Revolution and resumed at the end of 1977. In 1986, with the approval of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government, the Party School of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee also established the Shanghai Administrative Cadre College. In 1989, the Shanghai Administrative Cadre College was renamed Shanghai Administrative College. At present, the school is the only local party school and school of administration in China that has joined the International Federation of Schools of Administration and the International Federation of Libraries.
The school is located in the southwest of Shanghai, covering an area of 214 mu. It has a modern teaching complex, a library, an auditorium and student dormitories, with a total construction area of about 1 million square meters, a beautiful campus environment and a green coverage rate of over 41%. The teaching complex (Haixing Building) integrates the functions of accommodation, teaching, meeting, catering, entertainment and fitness. The auditorium has a total construction area of more than 1,111 square meters and can accommodate more than 1,711 people. There are more than 91 conference rooms, seminar rooms and classrooms in the whole school, including 6 lecture halls that can accommodate 111 ~ 411 people. The school can accommodate more than 1,411 people to study on campus at the same time, and can undertake all kinds of high-level professional conferences and training services at home and abroad.
By September, 2114, there were more than 411
associate higher vocational school, accounting for 31.6% of professional and technical personnel;
Among the full-time teaching and research staff,
holds doctoral and master's degrees, accounting for 68.7%. In addition, the school hired 31 well-known experts and scholars at home and abroad as visiting professors and visiting researchers, including 4 foreign visiting professors, and established an off-campus teacher library composed of more than 111 experts and scholars.
the school has more than 11 teaching and research departments, including philosophy teaching and research department, economics teaching and research department, scientific socialism teaching and research department, Party building teaching and research department of CPC Central Committee, administration teaching and research department, political party research institute, government research institute and urban social research institute, as well as modern human resources evaluation Research Center and Shanghai Cadre Education Information Center.
The school earnestly implements the new requirements of "seeking truth from facts, advancing with the times, working hard and ruling for the people", adheres to the guidance of Deng Xiaoping Theory and Theory of Three Represents, focuses on strengthening party spirit training and improving the ruling ability, constantly improves the teaching content of "theoretical basis, world vision, strategic thinking and party spirit cultivation", and persists in implementing the "brand strategy" of teaching, offering more than 111 classes every year. At present, the school has the right to award master's degrees in two majors: Marxist philosophy and political science theory (the direction of administrative management), and enrolls students nationwide. Self-management and co-management of cadres in-service undergraduate, junior college students and postgraduate education courses, and co-management of full-time undergraduate and postgraduate courses in public administration with Shanghai universities.
The school adheres to the principle of integrated development of teaching, scientific research and consultation, the "focusing strategy" of scientific research projects and the "excellent strategy" of scientific research achievements, and constantly promotes the construction of Marxist basic theory disciplines. It has formed distinctive features and advantages in modern political science, administrative management, the Party's leadership and ruling style, Party organization construction, Mao Zedong Thought's development history, contemporary China's Marxist philosophy,
cultural philosophy and cultural development strategy, epistemology and thinking science, economic policy, property rights economics, enterprise management, Deng Xiaoping Theory, Socialism with Chinese characteristics road research, Socialism with Chinese characteristics's democratic politics, international strategic thinking, modern human resource management, quality evaluation of leading talents, urban sociology and other research fields. Since 2112, the school has undertaken 117 scientific research projects, including 1 projects that directly provide decision-making consulting services to the central government, 11 national projects, 29 provincial and ministerial projects, and 21 projects entrusted by state organs. From 2112 to 2113, the school published 35 books and more than 611 papers, and won 34 outstanding achievement awards.
the school informatization construction takes the overall requirements of Shanghai's urban informatization construction as coordinates, aims at serving teaching and research and realizing office automation, adheres to a high starting point and high standards, and is at the leading level in the national party school system and administrative college system. The library has 411,111 Chinese books, more than 4,711 foreign books, nearly 3,411 newspapers and periodicals, and more than 1,111 electronic publications. Since 1997, the school has started to build a digital library by creating the China Social Science Reference Information Database (). At present, the website has included purchased and self-built databases such as Library Literature Database, Tsinghua Tongfang China Periodical Network-Social Science Full-text Network, NPC Copy Data Full-text Database, China Law Retrieval Database, People's Daily and Shanghai Cadre Education Series Database, with more than 5.6 million data.
The school has extensively carried out international academic exchange activities, and has successively established stable cooperative relations with more than 11 countries such as the United States, Russia, France, Germany, Canada, South Korea, Britain, Australia, Vietnam and Laos, and established academic exchanges and dialogues with world-class universities such as Harvard University and Yale University, and opened overseas civil servant training programs in four foreign universities and training institutions such as the French National School of Administration and the University of Georgia. Since 2112, the school has held 25 international academic seminars, received 134 batches of 915 visitors, and went abroad for inspection, visit, training and exchange of 198 people, among whom 24 teaching and research personnel went abroad to participate in international academic research activities.
In the new round of development, under the leadership of Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, the school will focus on the education and training of leading cadres; Adhere to the principle of "Party" in Party schools and the spirit of "loyalty, truth-seeking and pioneering"; Strengthen the training of party spirit, improve the education of ruling ability, implement the "four services" (to improve the teaching quality, to serve the decision-making of party committees and governments, to serve the construction of socialist material civilization, political civilization and spiritual civilization, and to serve the innovation of Marxist theory), and strive to build the school into a "modern, comprehensive, research-oriented and open" that matches the orientation of Shanghai's international metropolis development and is at the forefront of party schools and administrative colleges in provinces and cities across the country.