Tianjin University President Chai Liyuan (entrance, third from left) joins school members, college students and alumni on Thursday in sharing the a hundred and thirtieth anniversary cake on the college in Tianjin. (ZOU HONG/CHINA DAILY)
President Xi Jinping has prolonged his congratulations to the college, college students and alumni of Tianjin University on the a hundred and thirtieth anniversary of the founding of China’s first trendy college.
Xi, additionally normal secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, conveyed his congratulations in a reply dated Tuesday to a letter from all the college and college students of the college.
Xi described the anniversary as a brand new place to begin for the college, and referred to as on its school and college students to deal with main nationwide strategic wants.
He expressed his hope that they are going to deepen reforms in instructing and scientific analysis, strengthen fundamental analysis, and obtain higher breakthroughs in science and know-how.
Xi additionally urged them to enhance the standard of expertise improvement and contribute to the nation’s efforts to construct a powerful instructional system, improve scientific and technological power, and advance Chinese modernization.
Tianjin University, which was based in 1895 as Peiyang University, adopted its present identify in 1951.
The college, with about 40,000 full-time college students and greater than 4,800 school and employees members, is understood for its specialties in engineering.
Recently, the college’s school and college students wrote a letter to Xi, reporting the college’s improvement over the 130 years and its achievements lately.
They additionally expressed their willpower to domesticate expertise independently and obtain higher self-reliance and power in science and know-how.
Xi’s reply was obtained with nice enthusiasm by the college’s school and college students.
Yang Xianjin, Party secretary of Tianjin University, stated the reply was inspiring and inspiring, including that it has offered elementary steering for the college’s efforts to construct itself right into a world-class college.
Liu Congqiang, dean of the School of Earth System Science, stated the reply comprises strategic steering for scientific and technological innovation within the new period.
“We feel deeply honored and are deeply aware of the great responsibility we shoulder,” Liu stated.
The college will work to higher align its fundamental analysis efforts with the nation’s main wants, corresponding to these for carbon peak and carbon neutrality, and contribute to the nation’s efforts to domesticate new high quality productive forces, Liu stated.
Qi Dehao, a pupil within the School of Precision Instrument and Opto-Electronics Engineering, stated, “In this era, only innovators advance, only innovators become strong, and only innovators win.”
“We will bravely climb the peaks of technology and take the lead in overcoming technological ‘stranglehold’, contributing our youthful energy to the realization of the Chinese Dream of national rejuvenation,” Qi stated.
Tan Lak Hon, a global pupil from Malaysia, stated that in his three years at Tianjin University, he has gained not solely intensive information, but in addition many unforgettable experiences and reminiscences.
Last 12 months marked the fiftieth anniversary of diplomatic relations between Malaysia and China, and final month, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim visited Tianjin University.
“These two significant events have converged during my youth, strengthening my future direction — to integrate personal growth into the progress of the times, to transform cross-cultural exchanges into bridges and bonds, and to tell the story of Malaysia-China friendship,” he stated.
