The launching ceremony of the 119th anniversary and 120th anniversary of the founding of Shanxi University was held

May 8th is the 119th anniversary of the founding of Shanxi University and the 120th anniversary of the first anniversary of the launch of the countdown, teachers, students, retired comrades, alumni representatives gathered here to celebrate the 119th anniversary of the alma mater. Wang Yanglin, Secretary of the Party Committee of the University, Huang Guitian, President of the University, and other school leaders attended the ceremony, together with the old leadership representatives, the former Party Secretary of the University, and the 60-level alumnus of the Department of Political Science, the old professor representative, the former director of the Environmental Science and Engineering Research Center of Shanxi University, the doctoral supervisor, the 61-level Biology Department alumnus Meng Ziqiang, the alumni representative, the president of the Beijing Alumni Association, the 78th Chinese Department alumnus Zhang Zhongxi, the alumni representative, the 79th class of the Department of Chemistry Alumni Gao Jianzhong, as well as the teacher representative, Jie Qing, Zhang Jing, winner of the second prize of the National Natural Science Award, jointly unveiled the countdown card for the 120th anniversary of the school. The ceremony was presided over by Vice President Cheng Fangqin.

On behalf of the school, Huang Guitian extended a warm welcome to the guests, extended festive greetings and good wishes to all the teachers and students, retired comrades, alumni at home and abroad, and expressed heartfelt thanks to people from all walks of life who have long cared about and supported the reform and development of Shanxi University. He reviewed the school's magnificent school-running process and the achievements in running the school in recent years. He pointed out that looking back at the 119 years that the school has gone through, generations of mountain people have written a magnificent and glorious chapter with sweat, courage, wisdom and strength. The school regards "Connecting East and West, Seeking Truth and Perfection, Climbing Chongjunliang, and Self-Improvement and Serving the Country" as the spiritual background rooted in the bloodline, and has forged the pursuit of the value of embracing the homeland and loving the country and loving the school; formed a style of running a school with perseverance and unremitting self-improvement; shaped a fine atmosphere of seeking truth and being pragmatic and down-to-earth; and condensed the consensus on the goal of forging ahead and pursuing excellence. These precious spiritual wealth will always inspire the mountain people in the new era to ride the wind and waves in the increasingly fierce competition for higher education and stride forward. In recent years, the school has continuously accelerated the connotative development of improving quality as the core, built a high-level comprehensive research university, and forged ahead towards the goal of ranking among the outstanding and well-known universities in China, and has made new achievements in discipline construction, talent training, social services, and team building. Next year, the school will celebrate its 120th anniversary, which is another major milestone for the school after the centennial celebration. Huang Guitian issued a sincere invitation to alumni at home and abroad and all sectors of society to celebrate the 120th anniversary of the school, hoping that everyone would take the time to come and reminisce with the teachers and students of the school, reminisce about the past, talk about friendship, celebrate the school celebration ceremony, talk about the blueprint for development, and work together to create a better future for Shanxi University.

At the ceremony, representatives of veteran leaders, alumni and teachers and students spoke successively to express their hearts and sincere feelings for the school. Xiang Congzhi worked and lived in the school for a long time, and served as the party secretary of the school from 1989 to 1999. He fondly reviewed his study and work experience in Shanxi University, put forward ardent expectations for the future development of the school, and expressed the sincere feelings of the older generation of Mountain People for the school. Zhang Zhongxi is an outstanding alumnus of the school, not only has made outstanding achievements in his personal career, but also has always been concerned about his alma mater, vigorously supported the work of alumni, and made outstanding contributions to the establishment and development of the Beijing Alumni Association. His speech was full of enthusiasm and full of the hot childlike feelings of the vast number of alumni and the deep blessings of his alma mater. Zhang Jing is an outstanding representative of the young teachers in the school, and has made pioneering work in many fields of quantum optics research and achieved outstanding achievements. Combining his own experience of growing up, he told the true feelings of a young teacher studying and teaching at Shanxi University. As a student representative, Li Yiran of Chumin College expressed her determination to inherit the century-old glorious tradition of Shanda University, bloom youth in struggle, and release her youthful dreams in the journey of realizing national rejuvenation. Among the guests, Mr. Gao Xizhe, the great-grandfather of Gao Jianzhong's alumni, was the first graduate of Shanxi University Hall Middle School, and the group photo of the first graduates of Shanxi University Hall treasured by the School History Museum was donated by Mr. Gao's family. Five generations of his family have had children from Shan University, and five generations have witnessed the school cultivating batches of outstanding talents for the society. The achievements of the school today are the condensation of the blood and sweat of generations of teachers, students and employees. Looking back on the century-old road of running a school, the wind and rain, the fires and fires, standing at a new historical starting point, all the mountain people will only seize the day, firmly move forward, and create new glory.

In the warm applause, the 120th anniversary countdown board was unveiled, marking the official start of the series of activities for the 120th anniversary of Shanxi University. The school will take this as an opportunity to gather the wisdom and strength of teachers and students of the whole school, alumni at home and abroad, and turn the 120th anniversary of the school into an academic and cultural celebration that displays development achievements, condenses development consensus and gathers development forces, and transforms the enthusiasm for loving and honoring the school stimulated by the school celebration activities into a powerful driving force for promoting the development of the school.

The original intention does not change, all the way to Fanghua. After the ceremony, everyone could not hide their excitement, and said that they should adhere to the lofty mission of "educating people for the party and educating talents for the country", adhere to the direction of socialist education, continue to implement the fundamental task of Lide Shuren, be down-to-earth, pursue excellence, build a high-level comprehensive research university, forge ahead towards the goal of becoming one of China's outstanding and well-known universities, make greater contributions to promoting the transformation and development of Shanxi, and make greater contributions to building a strong country in higher education, celebrate the centenary of the founding of the party with excellent results, and greet the 120th anniversary of the founding of the university!

All the school leaders, the presidents and secretaries-general of local alumni chapters and industry alumni chapters, the responsible comrades of the college, first-level research units, functional departments, teaching and auxiliary units, and affiliated units, and retired faculty representatives, teacher representatives, and student representatives attended the activities.

According to reports, during the celebration period, the school will hold academic forums, lectures by famous teachers, knowledge competitions, alumni exchanges, art exhibitions, literary and artistic performances, sports competitions and other forms of celebration activities. (Correspondent: Lan Yun, Shanxi University, Guo Qian)