The school motto of "seeking truth from facts, being diligent and eager to learn, and being sincere to others" bears the historical evolution, running course and development direction of Hebei University, and contains the rational spirit, innovative spirit and humanistic spirit of several generations of scholars. Fu Guangsheng, president of Hebei University, deeply interpreted the motto of Hebei University in an interview with reporters.
Fu Guangsheng said that "seeking truth from facts", that is, respecting objective laws and seeking the essence of things, is the basic follow-up of being a man and the highest goal of running a school; "Faith in learning", that is, honest and trustworthy, down-to-earth learning, puts forward requirements for the moral character of teachers and students, and is also the basic follow-up of running a school. The first four words are epistemology and the last four words are methodology, which complement each other and complement each other.
School motto is the most important cultural symbol of Hebei University, which is distributed in classrooms, apartments, canteens and other corners of the campus. As an important cultural symbol, it is engraved in the hearts of every teacher and student. The school not only permeates the school motto into campus construction through external cultural signs, but also strives to create a good atmosphere of respecting knowledge, academics and excellent traditional culture in the whole school. A series of activities launched by the school, such as "Thousands of professors visit thousands" and "Yan 'an spirit enters the campus", have aroused widespread social repercussions and cannot be separated from the guidance of the school motto spirit.
Over the past 90 years, Hebei University has trained more than 300,000 graduates for the society, including Pang Guofang, an academician of China Academy of Engineering, Fan Gang, a famous economist, a large number of public servants like Ren Qiuhua, a "national model judge", and hundreds of thousands of ordinary workers who work silently in various positions. These outstanding graduates can achieve their own achievements in their respective posts without the school motto of "seeking truth from facts, studying hard and treating others sincerely".
Talking about the future development of the school, Fu Guangsheng said that Hebei University is carrying out a project to enhance its comprehensive strength, including a university culture construction project, that is, to run the school motto through all aspects of the school-running process, and to build Hebei University into a high-level comprehensive university with distinctive characteristics and international fame by the centenary of its establishment in 2002/KLOC-0.