Source: The Great Wall Network
The “100th anniversary of the founding of the original university, and the 60th anniversary of the founding of the independent university”. Photo by Wu Peijian/ The Great Wall Network
The Great Wall Network, September 10 (Wu Peijian)--One hundred years of contribution to Chinese heavy industry, and sixty years to education and academic research. On the 36th Teacher’s Day, which falls on September 10, the “100th anniversary of the founding of the original university, and the 60th anniversary of the founding of the independent university” was held at the Students’ Center of the east campus in Yanshan University at 9:00 am. Due to the requirement of the epidemic prevention and control, the conference was held in a main venue and a branch venue, which was broadcast live. More than 300,000 alumni interacted online and offline and sent best wishes to their university.
Red flags are fluttering along the road, Yanming Lake is clear and the weather is fine in September. The campus is full of festive atmosphere and vitality. A banner read “Pass on the spirit of craftsmanship, devote to education and academic research” hangs on the wall in the venue.
The conference began with the solemn national anthem at 9 o’'clock in the morning.
Zhou Tienong, former vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress and former chairman of the Central Revolutionary Committee of Chinese Kuomindang, Nie Ruiping, deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Hebei Provincial People’s Congress, Xu Jianpei, deputy governor of the Hebei Provincial People’s Government, Sun Shen, deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Heilongjiang Provincial People’s Congress and secretary of the Qiqihaer Municipal Party Committee, Zhou Yu, president of Harbin Institute of Technology and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Gong Ke, chairman of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations, former president of Tianjin University and Nankai University, Liu Mingzhong, secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of China First Heavy Industry Group Co., Ltd., Zhao Kefei, former deputy secretary and vice chairman of the Heilongjiang Provincial Political Consultative Conference, Zhu Zhengxue, secretary of the Qinhuangdao Municipal Party Committee, Zhang Ruishu, deputy secretary of the Qinhuangdao Municipal Party Committee and mayor, Zhao Xianfeng, party secretary of Yanshan University, and Zhao Dingxuan, president of Yanshan University, sat in the front row of the rostrum.
Xu Jianpei read out a congratulatory letter from Wang Dongfeng, secretary of the Hebei Provincial Party Committee and director of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People’s Congress, to Yanshan University. Zhao Xianfeng presided over the meeting. Zhao Dingxuan, Zhou Yu, Sun Shen, Liu Mingzhong, Dr. Gregory Post(president of the University of Toledo), Zhang Ruishu, teacher representative Huang Zhen, outstanding alumni representative Huang Qingxue, and student representative Shao Kexin delivered speeches successively.
Zhao Xianfeng said that as New China’s first heavy equipment manufacturing industry academy, Yanshan University is loyal to the motherland, remains true to her aspiration undergoing ups and downs in two relocations, three start-ups, and transfers and renaming, and makes great achievements with the same pace of national rejuvenation and development.
Yanshan University devotes to education and academic research, imparting morality and cultivating talents, adhering to the school motto of “morality, knowledge, truth”, ushering students to make contributions to the places where the motherland needs the most, and cultivated a large number of elites of academy, politics, business and industries for the Party and the country.
Yanshan University devotes itself to scientific research, works hard to prosper the country, serves Hebei and China with science and technology, created a number of domestic “first sets” synthesized the hardest materials, participated in the research and development of core parts of major national engineering projects, made contributions to the construction of a world power of science and technology, and cast the Yanda spirit of “hard work, conscientious scholarship, practice and innovation”.
“Each generation has its own responsibility and mission. On the journey of opening the new century of Yanshan University, let us take over the baton from our predecessors and carry forward the striving genes, craftsmanship, excellence and patriotism that have been cast in the bones of Yanshan University, remain true to our aspiration and march ahead for a national “double first-class” university and a “distinctive, domestic first-class, world-renowned research university”, serve the economic and social development of Hebei and the country, and make new and greater contribution to the Chinese Dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.” He said.
The first “outstanding alumni” of Yanshan University and the “predecessors” who made outstanding contributions to the construction and development of the university selected online were awarded on the conference. Eight representatives of “predecessors of entrepreneurship” put on red silk ribbon, which symbolized the continuous inheritance of the spirit of Yan University, for the young teachers, who presented flowers to them in turn.
More than 100 universities and institutions at home and abroad, such as Tsinghua University and Curtin University in Australia, as well as some cooperation units in other provinces and cities have also sent congratulatory letters and videos, to send good wishes for the 100th anniversary of Yanshan University.
Keep true to the aspiration and march ahead for a better future. The guests, teachers, students and alumni all stood up and sang the “Song of Yanshan University”, wishing the century-old Yanshan University everlasting and prosperous.
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