Recently, the Shandong Department of Education issued the "Notice on Announcement of the Second Batch of Support Lists for the Construction of Application-oriented Undergraduate Universities in Shandong Province", and SDAEU was successfully approved as the second batch of support units of application-oriented undergraduate universities in Shandong Province.

Over the years,SDAEU has closely focused on the fundamental task of strengthening moral education and cultivating people, and in accordance with the overall requirements of the development of application-oriented universities, updated educational ideas, deepened comprehensive reforms, focused on undergraduate teaching, and carried out exploration and practice of application-oriented undergraduate talent training. Our school has been committed to cultivating high-quality applied talents who have a solid professional foundation, strong practical ability, fine adaptability, national feelings and innovative spirit, and comprehensive development of morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor.The school's school-running level and comprehensive strength have been significantly improved, and the school-running feature of "agricultural-industrial integration" has initially formed, providing strong talentsand intellectual support for local economic and social development. In the past two years, our school has taken the qualification assessment of undergraduate teaching work as the starting point, and has taken multiple measures to build an applied talentsmanagement model, formeda high-level applied talent training system, and solidly promotedthe construction of our school's applied undergraduateconstruction work.

The approval of Shandong Province's application-oriented undergraduate university construction support unit is an affirmation and expectation for our school's application-oriented school running. The school will take this approval as an opportunity, based on the application-oriented school-running orientation, seize the opportunity, fully implement the fundamental task of building morality and cultivate people, strengthen top-level design, actively explore effective ways and measures to speed up application-oriented construction, and closely integrate the "14th Five-year" development plan, closely focus on the needs of regional economic and social development, make overall planning and orderly progress, effectively enhance students' innovation and entrepreneurship ability, comprehensively improve the school's ability to serve regional economic and social development and innovation-driven development, and strive to build "agricultural-industrial integration" high-level applied university with distinctive features.