On April 26, the launching ceremony of the 2024 Capital College Student Mental Health Season was held at Beijing Sport University.
Student representatives from Beijing Sport University carried out the "Get Moving" literary and sports exhibition, in the cheerful and dynamic music, based on cheerleading and break dancing, integrating elements such as martial arts, freestyle basketball, sports dance, and various sports displays, fully demonstrating the beauty of sports and youthful vitality. Tsinghua University, Capital Institute of Physical Education, and Beijing Dance Academy introduced the work of strengthening the heart with the body and nourishing the heart with beauty.
Zhang Liwei, a professor at Beijing Sport University, gave a sports psychology micro-course on "Sports Promote the Mental Health and All-round Development of College Students", interpreting the current predicament of college students' mental health and prescribing a "sports psychology prescription". He said that the proportion of regular exercisers with good mental health per month has increased significantly, and insisting on more than 3 times a week and 30 minutes of moderate and high-intensity aerobic exercise can effectively relieve psychological pressure, and also have a positive effect on relieving symptoms such as lack of concentration and insomnia. He advises students to develop sports habits such as team sports, cycling, aerobics, racket swinging, swimming, and more.
After the launching ceremony, Zhang Hao, world champion in figure skating, Lin Meng, world champion in short track speed skating, Wang Bingyu, women's curling champion in the Asian Winter Games, and Liu Xiaolei, world martial arts champion, led the capital university students to start a happy run on campus, encouraging students to actively participate in physical exercise, relieve psychological pressure and improve psychological quality in sports sweating.
According to reports, this year's mental health season series of activities highlight the characteristics of the integration of five educations, vigorously promote the students' physical fitness plan, aesthetic education infiltration action, labor habit formation plan, and focus on 10 municipal-level demonstration activities such as psychological sitcom competitions, fitness and heart sports activities, psychological comic collection competitions, and peer psychological skills competitions, so as to guide students to cultivate a rational, peaceful, positive and healthy mentality.
The Education Working Committee of the Municipal Party Committee, the Municipal Education Commission, the Municipal Sports Bureau, the Municipal Youth League Committee and relevant colleges and universities have jointly formulated a guidance plan for the sports and cultural activities of students in colleges and universities in the capital, and will successively carry out a series of popular, interesting and competitive sports activities such as ultimate frisbee exhibition competitions, fitness and bodybuilding competitions, campus youth dance conferences, tennis open tournaments, and anxiety relief Baduanjin, and organize students to participate in cross-school, cross-grade and cross-professional teams, and guide students to regulate their emotions and relieve pressure in teamwork, inter-school exchanges and competitive competitions. The program also encourages colleges and universities to innovate and actively develop distinctive and effective forms of physical activity.
Driven by the municipal-level demonstration activities, colleges and universities in Beijing have enriched the forms of activities in combination with the actual situation of the school, and created a series of educational activities that are rich in school characteristics, meet the needs of students, and promote the healthy growth of students' physical and mental health. Peking University launched a themed night run activity, organizing students to run forward in classic songs, attracting tens of thousands of students to participate. Tsinghua University organizes and carries out special activities for Sunshine Sports, mobilizing about 11,000 students every year to choose a variety of extracurricular exercise methods after 4:30 p.m. every day, and the Sunshine Long-distance Run has become a unique memory for every Tsinghua person. Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics has developed the "Sunshine Check-in" platform, which integrates physical exercise, grade recognition, sharing and exchange, and incorporates sports check-in into the performance assessment of extracurricular exercises and physical education courses in each semester, and encourages students to actively participate in physical exercise through mechanism innovation. China Agricultural University actively promotes traditional Chinese sports such as martial arts, firecrackers, shuttlecock, dragon and lion dances, and introduces fashion and fitness projects such as line dance, street dance, and roller skating to meet the diversified needs of college students and promote students' participation in sports activities through multiple channels. Beijing Sport University has invited nearly 100 Olympic champions and world champions to the podium to share their growth experiences with students, so that students can truly feel the attitude and psychological adjustment methods of champions in the face of setbacks. Beijing Technology and Business University organized all freshmen to continue to carry out the morning exercise activity of "Meet in the Morning". Through sports such as morning jogging, radio exercises, shuttlecock, etc., students are helped to form good behavior habits of "going to bed early, getting up early, exercising early, reading early, and eating breakfast". Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture has carried out more than 20 mass activities such as "Sports Festival, Mini Marathon, and Minghu Ice Carnival" throughout the four seasons, ensuring that students have one hour of sports time every day, participating in extracurricular exercises three times a week into the evaluation of sports performance, and prescribing sports prescriptions such as "Fun Psychological Games and Sunshine Training Camp" for students with poor mental health.
Li Junfeng, deputy secretary of the Education Working Committee of the Municipal Party Committee in charge of daily work, said that the goal of the 2024 Capital College Student Mental Health Season is to promote the integration of five educations and promote mental health into practical actions, further optimize the work pattern, improve the quality and efficiency of education, and make every effort to ensure the healthy growth and success of students. He demanded that colleges and universities should take the development of the mental health season as a key task at present, strengthen overall coordination and overall design, and actively carry out characteristic activities that combine tradition and innovation, online and offline, individuality and commonality, and theory and practice, and strive to cover all employees and run through the whole process.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Zhang Yuehao
Editor/Tan Weiping