On the morning of June 17th, SDUT held a graduation ceremony in the central stadium to congratulate the 2022 graduates for successfully completing their studies and starting a new journey in life.
School leaders LYU Chuanyi, HU Xingyu, DENG Changliang, WANG Libin, ZHA Yuxi, YI Weiming, ZHANG Jinsheng, SU Shoubo attended the ceremony. Deans, deputy secretaries of the Party committee (general Party branch) in charge of student work and counselors in charge of graduate work of all academic schools, teacher representatives, alumni representatives and 2022 graduates participated in the ceremony. The ceremony was presided over by ZHA Yuxi, member of the standing committee of the Party committee and vice president of SDUT.
Before the ceremony, SDUT carefully prepared F1 racing performance, song mash-up, poetry recitation, chorus, message video and graduation season light show video in accordance with the graduation theme to express the best wishes to the graduates.
In the majestic national anthem, the graduation ceremony was opened.
YI Weiming, vice chairman of the academic degree evaluation committee, member of standing committee of the Party committee and vice president of SDUT, read out the Decision on Awarding Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral Degrees to 2022 Graduates. WANG Libin, member of standing committee of the Party committee and vice president of SDUT read out the Notice on Honoring the Outstanding 2022 Graduates.
School leaders awarded graduation certificates and degree certificates to the representatives of graduates and honorary certificates to the representatives of outstanding graduates.
In the music of “Teacher, I always think of you”, the graduate representatives presented flowers to the staff representatives to thank them for their hard work and careful training.
GE Haotian, the 2022 doctoral candidate of School of Agricultural Engineering and Food Science, spoke on behalf of the graduates.WANG Fei, a 2005 graduate of the School of Music, spoke on behalf of the alumni.ZHAO Bo, a teacher of School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, spoke on behalf of all the teachers.
School leaders presented alumni cards to the representatives of graduates.
LYU Chuanyi, secretary of the Party committee of SDUT, awarded the flag to the volunteer service group of China’s Far West Program.
HU Xingyu, chairman of the academic degree evaluation committee, deputy secretary of the Party committee and president of SDUT, made a speech entitled “Let’s go to the future”. On the occasion of the departure of the 2022 graduates, he made four earnest hopes for them.
First, the future is guided by dreams. Life is great because of dreams. He hopes that students will be the dream-chasing youth of the new era, set up the ambitious wills and strive to achieve them. Students should enhance the will, backbone and bottom of being Chinese, live up to the times and the youth to achieve a wonderful life.
The second is to shape the future with commitment. Born in a prosperous age, the times are calling. It is hoped that students will bear in mind the country’s most fundamental interests, adhere to the sentiment of the family and the country and practice the ardent expectation in the school anthem “work together, strive together, shoulder the heavy responsibility of the times” to be the pillar of rejuvenation and to be the pioneer of a strong country.
Third, the future is achieved through struggle. Struggle is the most beautiful background of youth. Students should be practical and hardworking. No struggle, no youth. Students should dedicate the skills learned to the motherland and the people and let their youth shine forever on the glorious road of struggling for their dreams.
Fourth, students should embrace the future with rationality. There is no straight path in life and there are few smooth roads in the world. It is hoped that students should enhance the spirit of struggle, refuse to “let it rip”, take the initiative to get out of the “comfort zone”, do not be discouraged, do not let up, do not be impatient, actively respond, challenge themselves, “dynamically clear” the problems one by one and find out their own “the most available development zone” to make progress in the struggle, grow in the difficulties and improve in tackling difficulties.
Finally, HU Xingyu said with affection that since today students had become the youngest alumni of the school. “No matter how long the sunlight stretches the shadow of a tree, it is always connected to its roots.” No matter how far they went or how high they flew in the future, the alma mater would always be our common spiritual home and students were always welcome to visit home.
The graduation ceremony came to an end with the passing of the giant school flag in the sound of the school anthem “You accompany me” sung by the whole audience.
For the convenience of teachers, students, alumni, students’ parents and friends from all walks of life, the media center broadcasted the entire graduation ceremony live through WeChat Channels and Douyin. A total of more than 130,000 people watched it online.