Dear students, honorable instructors, and teachers:
Good morning everyone!
The autumn breeze is soothing, the osmanthus blossoms are fragrant, and it's the best time of the year on Mount Guizi. Today, we are here to hold a grand opening ceremony and military training summary conference, to open the students' college life, and applaud the students' military training results. Here, I would like to represent Xia Lixin secretary, the whole school staff, and students, to the 11,566 new students, to express the warmest welcome! To parents and teachers who have worked hard to cultivate you, we express our highest respect! To the Air Force Early Warning College to undertake the task of military training chiefs and instructors, we express our most heartfelt thanks!
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that "we have to advance in the logic of history and develop in the trend of the times." When students first entered CCNU, it was also the 120th anniversary of the school's birth. 120 years ago, CCNU has always taken "revitalizing teacher education and nurturing the pillars of the motherland" as the basis for founding the school, running the school, developing education, and strengthening the school. CCNU has cultivated 600,000 outstanding talents, especially for China's basic education, delivering more than 200,000 people's teachers of high moral character and academic excellence, and has become the main position of China's teacher training, the source of educational innovation, and has always been in the national teacher training universities in the "first square", and is moving towards the "leading world-class university of teacher education".
On 9 September, on the eve of the 39th Teachers' Day, General Secretary Xi Jinping sent a letter to the representatives of the nation's outstanding teachers, stressing the need to "vigorously carry forward the spirit of educators, and make new and greater contributions to the construction of a strong nation and the national rejuvenation of the great cause". The spirit of the General Secretary's important instructions not only provides a fundamental guideline for the new journey of the University of Teacher Education but also points out the direction for the growth and development of young students of the University of Teacher Education in the new era. The profound connotation of the educator's spirit is not only a high degree of condensation of the values and noble qualities formed by generations of excellent teachers in long-term practice but also an action guide to lead young students to grow up to be newcomers in the era of national rejuvenation. Standing on this new starting point of life in the university, students should always bear in mind the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping, take the educator's spirit as a torch, and use the educator's spirit to nourish the road to success.
We hope that students will firmly believe in the ideal of "serving the country with sincerity" and let their youth sail away with their dreams. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Youth with lofty ideals and firm beliefs are the indestructible driving force of a country and a nation." The old generation of educators and scientists have always integrated their careers into national development, "education to strengthen the country, practical work to develop the country" is to illuminate the ideal light of their lives. Students, youth is a boat, ideal is a sail. I hope that you will always keep faith, firmly serve the country's ideals, always have a sense of family and the country, and consciously integrate youth into the ideal. With ideals and beliefs as sails, let youth in the development of the country and the times of the torrent of dreams sail away.
I hope that students will cultivate the moral sentiments of "speaking as a model, behaving as a model of the world", so that their youth will be rich in virtues. In the 120 years of CCNU's development, we have always taken "learning to be a teacher and behaving as a model" as the yardstick, and put the "teacher's spirit", "teacher's character", "teacher's dignity" and "teacher's spirit" as the yardstick. The "teacher's spirit", "teacher's character" and "teacher's dignity" have been integrated into the practice of running schools. We hope that students will follow their example, cultivate the moral sentiments of "Being a teacher and behaving as a model of the world", so that the correct values can be put into practice, and always maintain a strong "upward" and "good" impetus. The driving force is always "upward" and "towards goodness".
I hope that students will cultivate the wisdom of “enlightenment of the heart, teaching according to the material" and let their youth shine. As the saying goes, "Teachers are those who preach, teach, and explain." From ancient times to the present, true education is one kind of wisdom to ignite another kind of wisdom. When you enter the university gate, you should deeply appreciate that today's growth comes from the teachers' wisdom of "Enlightenment of the heart, teaching according to the material". Many of the students present will go to the podium in the future, and I hope that they will remember the original mission of educating people for the Party and the country from now on, learn from the teachers who have cultivated you and will cultivate you, and understand the educational wisdom of "Enlightenment of the mind and heart" and "Teaching according to the material" in the process of education, and work hard to achieve the goal of "Enlightenment of the mind and heart" and "Teaching according to the material" in education. In the course of your education, you will learn the wisdom of "enlightening the mind" and "teaching according to the material". Study diligently to educate people, and open the door to wisdom, so that youth in the wisdom to enlighten wisdom, literacy achievements in literacy glow more brilliantly.
We hope that students will uphold the attitude of "diligent study and conduct, seeking knowledge and innovation" and make their youth full of vigor. Competence is the "core" of Chinese youth in the new era, without competence, you can not do things, and even more, can not do things, and even more can not do great things. The only way to develop strong skills is to rely on continuous learning. I hope that students always cherish time as gold, and strive to master scientific and cultural knowledge and professional skills, improve humanistic qualities, in the study of knowledge, and refinement of character. Consciously combine "reading thousands of books" with "traveling thousands of miles" to accurately identify changes, scientifically respond to changes, and actively seek changes. In academic research, innovation and practice to explore new issues, develop new ideas, develop new thinking, to be down-to-earth to lay a solid academic foundation, innovative thinking to develop strong skills, and strive to play the cornerstone of life deep, firm, so that youth in the right and innovation, and to make progress in the brilliant luster.
We hope that students will diligently cultivate the heart of benevolence of "joyful teaching and love for students, willing to dedication" so that youth can transmit energy. The character of youth is dedication, and the beauty of youth is commitment. Around us, there is never a lack of love and dedication to positive energy. History flows endlessly, and the spirit is passed on from generation to generation. We hope that students will carry forward the great love of Huashi and Huashi alumni, keep the heart of "to establish oneself and reach out to others, the people and things", have love in their hearts, have light in their eyes, and be willing to dedicate themselves so that their youth will gather positive energy and transmit positive energy in their service and dedication.
We hope that students will establish the pursuit of "thinking about the world and educating people" and let their youth serve the motherland. For thousands of years, Chinese intellectuals have always closely integrated their destiny with the ideals of society, and have written the "strong voice" of the times with broad-mindedness and noble responsibility. As the saying goes, "Studying is not only for the good of oneself, but also for the good of others, and even more so for the promotion of the Way to help the world." I hope that students with the "counting the world's benefits when the world's benefits" mindset, always firmly "the world's" sentiment, vision, and commitment, take the initiative to embrace the university this has unlimited possibilities of the new world, in the sea of knowledge sail away, in the world of science, determined to move forward, to To serve the motherland and the people with what we have learned.
Dear students, CCNUl has been passing on the torch for a hundred and twenty years. It is the honor of the school to get the world's talents and nurture them; it is the mission of the school to nurture the world's talents. University is the new starting line of your life, and progress is the power source for you to win the new track. I hope that students in the youth of the new track, always maintain the ideal full of struggle posture, forge ahead in the posture of progress, the attitude of dedication to the family and the country, with no regrets of youth, write a worthy of the country, worthy of the people, worthy of the glory of the times!
Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, National Day is coming, and School Day is approaching. At this time of reunion, honor and celebration, we sincerely welcome students to join the CCNU family! I sincerely wish that students will start a new journey of growth and write a new chapter of life with the new starting point of CCNU!
Source: The Voice of CCNU
Author: Chen Yushan
Translator: Zhao Xiuran
Date: September 30, 2023
