On September 19, the Opening Ceremony of the new semester for Grade 2014 students was held at the East Track Field on Minhang Campus and the Gymnasium on Zhongbei Campus respectively.
Students and teachers attend the convocation held on Minhang campus.
University leaders including Tong Shijun, Chen Qun, Cao Wenze, Ren Youqun, Yang Changli, Guo Weilu, Sun Zhenrong and Mei Bing, together with leaders and teacher representatives of departments and schools, as well as over 9000 new students from home and abroad, attended the sceremony. Cao Wenze, Executive Vice Chairman of the University Council, chaired the ceremony.
Students and teachers attend the ceremony held on Zhongbei campus.
President Chen Qun delivered a speech on the ceremony. Chen expressed a warm welcome to all the new ECNUers and shared with them the nature of university, ECNU’s heritage and ideals, as well as his expectations to all the new members of the university by interpreting ECNU’s philosophy: “Creativity, Character, Community”.
Chen Qun delivers a speech on the ceremony.
Cao Wenze chairs the ceremony.
“University life is free, but freedom and responsibility are always inseparable; the premise of freedom is responsibility.” He hoped all the freshmen can shoulder the responsibility of acquiring knowledge, thus to win wisdom, self-improvement in personality and to promote national and social development by daily practice and good deeds. “Only if we assume such responsibility, the future of us and the society will therefore be hopeful,” said Chen.
Wu Jian (L) and Sang Biao (R)
Students representatives.
As teacher representatives, Prof. Wu Jian, a PhD supervisor and member of State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, and Prof. Sang Biao, Dean of School of Preschool & Special Education, addressed on the ceremony. They shared with the new students their own experiences in ECNU and put forward several suggestions and proposals in how to live a wonderful university life. Besides, 6 student representatives also expressed their feelings and vision s of the future on the ceremony.
Written by: Shi Yangyang
Edited by: Liu Jinyu