From 25-26 October 2025, the "Inheritance and Innovation: Seminar on Development of Music Education Discipline Construction in Higher Education Institutions in the AI Era for a Century", organised by the Music Education Branch of the Chinese Society of Education and Nanjing University of the Arts, and hosted by the Conservatory of Music of Nanjing University of the Arts and the Editorial Department of the Journal of Nanjing University of the Arts, was successfully held at Nanjing University of the Arts. Zhang Linghao, Deputy Party Secretary and President of Nanjing University of the Arts; Cai Meng, Chairperson of the Music Education Branch of the Chinese Society of Education; and Zhang Lina, Deputy Director of Higher Education Press, attended the opening ceremony and delivered addresses. More than 200 experts, scholars, and young teachers and students from numerous specialised institutions across the country, including the China Conservatory of Music and Shanghai Conservatory of Music, as well as comprehensive universities such as Communication University of China and Beijing Normal University, gathered to discuss the inheritance and innovation of higher music education in the AI era. A delegation of 12 representatives from our School, including Dean Lv Yi, Staff Li Zheng and Cui Yuchen, and music postgraduate students, were invited to attend the seminar.

During the seminar., participating experts engaged in in-depth discussions on seven core topics, including "Century-Long Journey of Chinese Music Education/Research on Liu Zhiping", "Artificial Intelligence + Music Education", and "Music Teaching Reform in the AI Era", through 14 thematic reports, 6 special lectures, and 7 parallel forums.

Dean Lv Yi was invited to chair the special seminar in the "Artificial Intelligence + Music" parallel forum, guiding participating scholars in orderly and profound exchanges on the application of AI in fields such as music creation, teaching practice, family aesthetic education, and intangible cultural heritage inheritance. During this period, our School's faculty and students also conducted specialised discussions with experts and scholars from institutions including the China Conservatory of Music and Northeast Normal University on topics such as discipline construction and the integration of industry and education, establishing communication bridges between academic research and industrial practice, as well as between traditional teaching and modern technology.

In the future, our School will use this seminar as an opportunity to actively transform the outcomes of participation, deepen the integration of AI technology and music education practices, optimise talent cultivation models, strengthen the construction of the "Three Major Systems" of the discipline, and cultivate more high-quality talents with traditional heritage, international perspectives, and innovative capabilities for the high-quality development of higher music education in the new era.