This article reports about the plan for reforming Beijing university's engagements and promotion system. The leadership of Beijing University conducted in-depth deliberations on the university's work of building up its faculty contingent in light of the aim of establishing a world-class university and the situation and tasks faced in the current period, and reached a unanimity of opinion on reforming the university's faculty personnel system. The present personnel management system must be reformed and perfected in order to increase the vitality and competitiveness of the university's faculty contingent. Reform of the personnel system involves many aspects, and the most central of these aspects is the system for engaging and promoting faculty. This plan advances proposals with regard to the basic principles and main content of the reform of Beijing University's system for engaging and promoting faculty. All schools and departments should formulate implementation plans and detailed rules and regulations in accordance with the basic spirit and stipulations of this plan and in association with the specific circumstances of each school and department. (Contains 4 endnotes.) [This report was translated by Ted Wang.]