Speech by President Zhang Yaoxue at the Graduation Ceremony of Central South University: Choice
Dear students, teachers and parents,
Hello!
Lushan Mountain crosses the northland, and the sound of water crosses Xingcheng. Here, you have to leave me and drift away, and there are ten thousand classmates. Dear students, sad and beautiful parting is coming again! You are going to graduate and leave us! I don't want to be apart from you! I love you! I congratulate you! Every one of you is our best and best graduate! When you are about to leave, will you still listen to me? Old man? Say a few more words?
Nietzsche said that life is meaningless, but efforts can make it have some. Yes, hard work and struggle can make the value of life run through life. Your years at school are years of hard work, years of struggle and years of growth. Li Ting, an outstanding woman, was born in party member, a wonderful flower in the army; Shi Jian, the future orthopedic master, outstanding pianist and Hunan University Student of the Year; Although Luo is married, he still pursues his dreams, works, is the best father and husband, studies and never gives up. Ding, who went to college by working on his own, also donated more than 6000 yuan to the society, explaining the meaning of self-reliance with his own actions. Also, Julie and, Guo Yi, Meng Fanran, Xiao Qingkai, Li, Jiang Ning, Li, Li Xianghui, Dang Shiyu, Shi Fei, Lin, Kang Ying, Guo Lian, Wang Bin, Zhang Fenqiang, Liu Qiang, Li Zhongmin, Zhao Yucheng, Mo Miao and other students, are you all here today? Li Biao, do you know that you and your donated bone marrow saved a dying leukemia patient? You must have come today, right? You are outstanding representatives of the whole school10.4 million graduates! You all made impressive achievements during your college years, and I am proud of you! I salute you!
Looking back suddenly, a few years have slipped through your fingers. You have grown from a slightly immature teenager to a new force full of self-confidence, courage to take responsibility, full of dreams, truth-seeking, beauty and tolerance, and will soon go to society and the battlefield of national construction. Being with you for more than a year is limited to having several classes in the classroom, eating several meals in the canteen and attending several parties and symposiums held by you. But I have read almost all the emails you wrote to the headmaster's mailbox or my personal mailbox, and I have also replied, so I know something about what you think and do. You have had a lot of life thinking and practice, the joy and melancholy of loving and being loved, the friendship and joy of living and studying together, the trouble and happiness of growing up, the anxiety of repeating the exam, the leakage of the dormitory, the lack of electricity in the bath, the slow internet access, the lack of place for sports activities, and the confusion of being ignored when you want to complain. ......
Like our country, Central South is a developing university. As the headmaster, my colleagues and I hope to do our best to pay tribute to your respected old headmaster? Academician Boyun should follow your example, do everything you need, answer every question you need, serve you and accompany you to grow up, because you are the future of the country and the hope of the nation! In a year's time, we installed air conditioning in the new campus to minimize the heat you suffer in summer; We are trying to improve the food in the canteen. We hope you can eat more and better! We take the lead in building the first digital central south with seamless wired and wireless connection in China, and want you to connect with the world earlier and faster; Our professors and associate professors are all on the stage. I hope you can master the methods of scientific and technological innovation and the way to be a man as soon as possible. We open the teaching and research laboratory, hoping that you can not only learn theory, but also learn practice. ......
However, despite our continuous efforts, I still want to say to you, my dear classmates, on behalf of the school: I'm sorry! We still have a lot of work to do, or we can do better. Although our professors and associate professors are on the podium, there is little communication and interaction between professors and students. Although the time and scope of laboratory opening have increased a lot, our experimental curriculum arrangement and curriculum structure are still unreasonable; Although we installed air conditioners in some classrooms, we still can't install air conditioners in some old classrooms and dormitories, so we need to expand the circuit. Although our canteen has improved, it still can't meet the needs of students with different tastes all over the country; We have a beautiful new campus, but we still have to cross the road in the new campus. In some places in our digital south, the network speed is still slow; Our classmates on the seventh floor have to run to the first floor to turn on the water ... and so on, all of which reflect that our work is not done well! We should make greater determination and make greater efforts to do things better for our classmates!
Students, in order to realize the Chinese dream and your own dreams, you are about to leave the campus and go to all directions. In today's world, science and technology are developing with each passing day, economic development is becoming more and more global, and political development is becoming more and more diversified and multipolar. How can a peaceful China realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation? Hope is pinned on you! You will face the complicated international situation and all kinds of complicated contradictions and problems. Please don't forget the spirit of Central South, the judgment of Central South value and the choice of Central South value. Here it is. Dare to be the first to aim high? And then what? Seeking truth and being kind, beautiful and inclusive? .
There is no civilization and progress without choice and judgment, no morality and sympathy without kindness and truth, no wisdom and innovation without introspection and self-criticism!
Forgetting good is evil! If you forget the truth, the truth will become false! Forgetting beauty is shameless! If you forget tolerance, you will become narrow! Forget love, there will be hate!
Choice is everywhere, choice is everywhere. When you are about to fly your dreams, when you are about to step into this great society, my dear classmates, how are you going to make future choices?
When you are helpless to the weak, are you sympathetic, trying to help or bullying and laughing? When you face evil and ignorant people, do you fight or evade obedience? When you face money and wealth, do you treat it wisely or insatiably? When you face power and status, do you devote yourself to public service or do whatever it takes? When you are faced with poverty and fatigue, do you work hard or give up on yourself? When you face laws and rules, do you respect obedience or ignore trampling? When you face the country and people, do you give or take? When you face your family and friends, are you grateful or betrayed? When you face knowledge and study, are you studying or being lazy? When you face setbacks and failures, do you choose to be strong or sink?
The right way in the world is vicissitudes of life, and people in Central South will always have the choice of people in Central South. Do you remember? In order to overcome the difficulty of trachoma treatment, Mr. Tang risked blindness in both eyes and injected chlamydia virus into his eyes. After studying in the United States, faced with generous treatment from abroad, Academician Huang Boyun resolutely chose to return to China. He has been working in the front line of scientific research and teaching for decades, cultivating talents for the country and developing a killer weapon; Professor Tian Hongqi devoted himself to the construction of high-speed rail and Qinghai-Tibet railway in China, and went to the brink of death several times; Academician Zhong Dig, who is nearly 80 years old, is still in the front line of teaching and research, and she is still indispensable for the country and the country's major scientific research. Academician Xia Jiahui not only made world-class achievements in gene cloning, but also founded the first specialized hospital in the world that used genes to find genetic diseases at an early stage ... Among the young and middle-aged teachers, Xue Min was helped by two people after a lumbar fracture in order to treat a dying pregnant woman, and fainted on the operating table four hours after the operation; Comfortable, riding thousands of miles alone, working day and night, saving people on operating tables at home and abroad; Liu Lu, a 23-year-old young professor, faced with the invitation of the most famous foreign universities, remained unmoved and continued to wander in the ocean of scientific research in Central and South China. Liang Wengen, who started from 20,000 yuan and struggled for 30 years, not only created the myth of Sany Heavy Industry's annual output value of 80 billion, but also made our construction machinery technology go to the forefront of the world. Gong, Qin Jiaming, Guo Shengkun, Jiang Yikang, Zhao, Xiao Yaqing, Lv Zhongmei and Chai Jing are all outstanding alumni representatives in China. They represent the ambitious and pioneering spirit of Central South China, and represent the social economy of Central South alumni in the motherland. Also, Hu Yuehua,,,,, Ming, Zhang, Zhao Zhongwei, Guo, Jiang Jianxiang, Li Xibing, Chen Jianer, Li Songren, Grandma Wu, the worker's master Hu Yuexiang and many other resounding names, all of which give the choices of Central and South people!