Party Secretary Yao Chengrong Lectured at the Perseverance Forum

On the morning of September 21, Party Secretary Yao Chengrong gave a lecture at the Perseverance Forum in our Dreamers’ Auditorium, which was organized and hosted by our students. The theme of his lecture is “Chasing the Dream from the 'New' Start”, which was delivered for the 2014 freshmen. All the teachers and students present in the auditorium cheerfully applauded for this brilliant and witty lecture.

At the start of the lecture, Yao Chengrong said fondly, “Dream is a kind of ambition, a kind of vision, a kind of pursuit, and a kind of power. The youth with dream is brilliant.” There are two reasons why the auditorium is named as “Dreamers Auditorium”. One is that to cultivate “dreamers” for our country is the lofty and sacred mission of Chinese universities. To realize our China Dream of great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is to rely on talents and education in the final analysis. The second one is that each ZISU student should also live a happy four-year campus life in the pursuit of a dream, which is the value pursuit of ZISU’s education. Life will have different dreams in different stages. For many high school students, being admitted to a college or university is their dream; in the college or university, being a talent has become their new dream. The university stage is a very important period of a person’s life, and largely determines an individual's future development.

Our 2014 freshmen are about to open the first page of their university life. How to realize the dream of the future talent is the most important thing to be considered for each ZISU freshman. Yao Chengrong holds the view that the first urgent thing for chasing the dream of becoming a talented person is to learn how to behave and study well the important required course of how to cultivate one's morality and become a whole person. The cultivation of morality and a whole person is the fundamental task of education because morality education should be prior to nurturing people. A man cannot be a respectable person without integrity, for morality self-cultivation is the tact work of one’s career. Whether a person can achieve the dream of success and graduate as scheduled depends not only on their professional knowledge and ability, but also on their noble moral qualities and moral cultivation. The second one is that morality self-cultivation starts from the solid and strong base. Concentrated practice focuses on the three fine qualities such as responsibility, integrity and etiquette. First of all, have a strong sense of responsibility! If you have no sense of responsibility, you dare not to take your responsibility, which is one of the decisive factors for your future. College students are in the golden age of learning and should work hard and make our China's Dream come true, taking this as a kind of responsibility. While studying hard, we should care about our country, our people, and the world, and have the emotion of “Family-Country” of serving our motherland and the people, and do our duty as required in the slogan “Every man alive has a duty to his country”. Secondly, integrity. Integrity is the base of the leader and an upright man. "A man cannot be a reliable person without integrity". Lack of integrity is a serious problem in today's economic and social development. College students of a new generation will lead to keep the integrity of the social atmosphere, to foster the credit consciousness and the integrity of learning. Last but not least, etiquette. “If we don't learn etiquette, we cannot stand with integrity.” Etiquette refers to meet the requirements of the moral code of conduct; Etiquette also includes rituals and ceremonies. There will be quite a few our students to conduct international exchanges and cooperation, which requires them to be familiar with not only traditional Chinese basic etiquette, but also foreign etiquette.

The third one is that temper character starts from the self-discipline of daily life. "A gentleman with the moral line shows a trip." One’s fine qualities and moral integrity are judged by not only his or her words but also his deeds. Temper character is to achieve the unity of knowledge and action, starting from the trivial details; You are to exercise the power of concentration, stand the loneliness, and withstand the temptation.

Finally, Yao Chengrong encouraged the freshmen by saying that they were born in prosperous time, and lucky enough to catch up with the history to realize China's dream of a golden age. Great era has created a golden opportunity for the young generation of flying ideal and chasing their dream. “The longest journey begins with a single step.” He hopes that our students should have lofty ideals, and put them into action from now on. When graduating from university, they can realize their dream of talent, and become a man of noble temperament and elegant character, as well as a useful talent of homeland construction and a man of tremendous promise. During the process of the lecture, Yao Chengrong and students present conducted a relaxed and pleasant interaction. Representatives of the freshmen asked such question as how to meet the needs of international talents in the professional study and how to foster their own abilities and feelings about their dreams, etc. Yao Chengrong patiently answered these questions. His satisfactory answers have won the students’ hearty cheers and applause.