This golden fruitful autumn season witnessed the opening ceremony for Class 2020 and their military training mobilization meeting held by SDUT at the Central Stadium on the morning of September 28th. More than 10,000 youthful, vigorous and confident freshmen join Shandong University of Technology by Jixia Lake and set foot on the new journey of life.
School leaders presented at the opening ceremony were: LYU Chuanyi, HU Xingyu, ZHANG Xiangyun, WANG Libin, WEI Xiuting, YI Weiming, ZHANG Jinsheng, and the representative of Zibo Military Division, Colonel FENG Jiancheng, and directors who are responsible for relevant functional departments and heads of academic schools. The ceremony was presided over by ZHANG Xiangyun, member of the Standing Committee of Party Committee and Vice President of SDUT.
Before the ceremony, in the resounding singing of “Ode to the Motherland”, the 400 square meter giant national flag slowly glided over the scene under the support of 43 freshmen. 28 freshmen on the stage waved their bright red flags to echo with the audience. The atmosphere was warm and solemn.
The ceremony officially began in the grand and sonorous National Anthem after the solemn national-flag-raising ceremony.
On behalf of the staff members and students of SDUT, LV Chuanyi, President and Secretary of Party Committee of SDUT, expressed warm welcome to the arrival of the freshmen of Class 2020, and presented the freshmen with three proposals on how to spend their university life.
First, students should set a new goal. If you want a sustainable growth, the goal of your effort must be made clear. Goals could be divided into long-term goals and short-term goals. To achieve long-term goals, we need to start from achieving every short-term goal. I hope that students, in accordance with the school's“five-have” talents training objectives, would think about setting a new specific goal from the first day of school, so that you would not deviate the road of life or waste time on university life.
Second, students should build up their capabilities. Youth is the phase of “jointing and earring” in life. University was the golden time of learning, and it was also the key period of hard training and talent growth. Students must cherish learning as the primary task, adhere to the unity of knowledge and practice, expand the scope of knowledge, read books with words and without words, sharpen excellent quality, master real talent and practical learning, and lay a solid foundation for the more wonderful future.
Third, students are to hold the bottom line of being a human. As you have just entered the school, “bottom line thinking” must be established and you must make clear what your bottom line is while setting goals and practicing skills. Only by keeping the bottom line could you have an eternal future. College time was relatively free, students should be more self-disciplined and self-cultivated, strengthen the sense of rules, and keep the bottom line of life.
LYU Chuanyi hoped that students would strictly abide by the training discipline, resolutely obey the instructor's arrangement, develop healthy physique and temper will in the upcoming military training, and accomplish various military training tasks with full enthusiasm and high fighting spirit.
Finally, LYU Chuanyi earnestly urged the youthful students to uphold the school motto of “Virtuousness, Erudition, Commitment, Perfection”, to integrate into the historical torrent of the times and the rejuvenation of the nation, walk with the new era, consciously enhance social responsibility, cultivate innovative spirit, master specialized knowledge, improve practical ability, and exercise physical and mental health to become a socialist builder and successor who could be worthy of the great task of national rejuvenation ,work hard to write wonderful university stories and produce a brilliant life without regret.
Professor ZHAO Yugang of the School of Mechanical Engineering spoke on behalf of all the teachers, hoping that the students could strengthen their ideals and beliefs and bravely shoulder social responsibilities, temper their moral cultivation and lay a solid foundation for morality, change their learning methods and improve their comprehensive quality, learn professional knowledge and acquire excellent skills.
XU Jiaming, an undergraduate from Class 2018 in the School of Economics on behalf of all the students in the school delivered a speech. He shared his experience with freshmen from three aspects: devoting to academic research and cultivating morality, remembering the mission and being brave in taking responsibility, being firm in ideals and lofty aspirations.
LIU Yujia, a graduate student of Class 2020 from the School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering spoke on behalf of all the freshmen, saying that we should start from “zero” and adapt to the new life as soon as possible; we should learn to plan and make clear the new goal of life; we should insist self-discipline and self-examination, start a new journey of struggle and strive to express the story of youth without regret.
The leaders on the rostrum wore the school emblem for the student representatives of Class 2020.
On behalf of SDUT, LYU Chuanyi granted the flag to the military training group.
All the newcomers solemnly made a pledge under the leadership of ZHANG Kang, an undergraduate of Class 2020 from the School of Laws: We would remember the historical mission, set up high ideals, practice the motto of “Virtuousness, Erudition, Commitment, Perfection”, dare to assume the responsibility, innovation, knowledge-seeking, diligence in practice, strict on self-cultivation, and strive to be a “five-have” talents of the new era.
The ceremony ended with the vehement and heroic school song of “You Accompany Me”.
It was reported that this year SDUT had enrolled 9124 undergraduates and 1422 postgraduates.