Xiamen University: Hold high the banner of patriotism and national service for a hundred years and then set off

Source: Guangming Daily

【Under the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era- A New Chapter in the New Era】

On April 6, Xiamen University, a university the same age as the Chinese Communist Party, will celebrate its 100th birthday. "Carry forward the spirit of Jiageng, forge ahead on the first-class journey", the school celebration theme slogans that can be seen everywhere on campus, the school motto of "self-improvement, stop at the highest good", and the school song of "To me know in wuyang, full of my love for wujiang", all reveal the firmness of this century-old institution to breathe with the country at all times and share the destiny with the nation.

It is precisely a hundred years of glory, and the struggle is just in time. From the time of a hundred years, patriotism and service to the country, these cultural genes hidden in the centuries of Xiamen University, have become the unique spiritual wealth of Xiamen University, which have been praised in the school motto of the school song and school, engraved in the school emblem that integrates the spiritual and cultural symbols of Jiageng, flowing in the blood of Xiamen University, and inspiring generations of Xiamen University to move forward firmly in the century-old Fanghua.

"Think of what the country thinks, anxious about the country's urgency, blow the century-old 'south of the strong' and then start a new clarion call." Xiamen University will stand at the forefront of the new centennial journey and continue to struggle. Zhang Rong, president of Xiamen University, said.

Education saves the country and strives to be strong

Walking into Xiamen University, you can see the Jiageng-style buildings of "one master, four subordinates" and "lined up" at a glance - Qunxian Building Group. This is the first campus building of Xiamen University. The warm spring sun shines on the walls, and the white walls and red tiles here are as serene and determined as they were a hundred years ago, telling the first story to the world serenely and firmly.

At that time, Mr. Chen Jiageng, who was called "the banner of overseas Chinese and the glory of the nation" by Comrade Mao Zedong, embraced the belief of "education to save the country" and poured his money into establishing Xiamen University. On May 9, 1921, the "National Shame Memorial Day", the foundation stone of Xiamen University Qunxian Building was laid. Mr. Chen Jiageng, the owner of the school, specially chose this day to lay the foundation for the building of Xiamen University, precisely in the hope that Xiamen masters and students will always remember "do not forget the national shame and strive to be strong".

It can be said that when mr. Chen Jiageng, the owner of the university, personally laid the cornerstone of Xiamen University, he implanted the spiritual gene of patriotism and service to the country for Xiamen University.

Nowadays, generations of Xiamen University students have come from the north of tiannanhai, passed through the Qunxian Building Group, and looked up at the statue of Chen Jiageng, the former owner of the Qunxian Building, each time it was a spiritual baptism.

One of the buildings of the Qunxian Building Group, Nang Ying Lou, is the birthplace of the first party organization in Fujian Province. In 1926, Luo Yangcai, a young student from Xiamen University, was appointed secretary of the branch. Since then, the light of the sac firefly has gradually become a fire of fire. Xiamen University's party organizations, party members, progressive teachers and students have made important contributions to the liberation and independence of the Chinese nation and the establishment of a new China.

More than 90 years later, the "Yangcai Plan", with the training of student party branch secretaries as the main task, was fully launched at Xiamen University. The secretaries of student party branches, branch members, and key party members and student backbones from 33 colleges (research institutes) of the whole university formed the "Yangcai Pioneer Party Branch", which formed the head goose effect and played an exemplary and leading role by participating in special seminars, project research, volunteer services, etc.

"Cultivating specialized talents". At the beginning of the establishment of the school, cultivating talents with family and country feelings was one of the goals of Xiamen University. Whether it was the arduous years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Xiamen University took it as its duty to build a national reserve of talents after the war, or shouldered the mission of "coastal defense struggle" in the early days of the founding of New China, Xiamen University was called "college students with guns", and then with the clarion call of the era of reform and opening up, rooted in the land of China to run a first-class university, Xiamen University has always walked in the same direction as the country, educating people for the party and educating talents for the country.

Among them, there are Chen Jingrun, an alumnus who took the "Goldbach conjecture," the crown jewel of mathematics; Lu Jiaxi, who is committed to promoting scientific and technological progress; He Yici, founder of the Hsinchu Science Park, who made important contributions to Taiwan's economic take-off in the 1960s; Academician Zhang Cunhao, winner of the highest national science and technology award; Academician Chen Yijian, chief designer of the "Flying Leopard" fighter plane; Ge Jiashu, a famous accountant; and China's first doctor of accounting, the first doctor of auditing, the first doctor of finance, and the first doctor of oceanography The first Doctor of Higher Education...

Over the past hundred years, the baton has been passed down from generation to generation, leaving footprints of dedication to society around the world, and writing the chinese chapter of Xiamen University's service to the country in all walks of life.

"The most unsuitable area for human existence" was the United Nations assessment of Xihaigu in Ningxia. Dry climate, cracked lips, intermittent nosebleeds, lack of water, little food, blackouts... In 1999, Xiamen University sent the first teaching team to aid Ningbo and began this volunteer teaching team spanning more than 2,000 kilometers, covering Haiyuan County, Longde County and Minning Town in Ningxia.

This faction is 22 years.

The members of the teaching team come as promised every year, along with the growth of the children in Ningxia. 241 Xiamen University support team members came to the Gobi in northern Xinjiang from the coast of the southern country, and contributed to the youth strength of Xiamen University students in the process of poverty alleviation and Fujian-Nanjing cooperation, and wrote the "mountain and sea feelings" of the new era.

"Shoulder the responsibility on your shoulders, remember the motherland in your heart, and let the patriotic 'roots' be deeper!" Zhang Yan, secretary of the party committee of Xiamen University, said, "I hope that every Xiamen university person will grow into a towering tree, inherit the spirit of Jiageng, be the pillar of China, support a sea and a wide sky with patriotism, strong national aspirations, and service to the country, and create a moving world for national rejuvenation." ”

Committed to serving the country and ending in the highest good

On April 6, 1950, on the occasion of the 29th anniversary of Xiamen University, Xiamen University received a telegram from Ohio State University on the other side of the ocean: "The motherland is spring, I miss you, the motherland!" "Just a few words, full of affection for the motherland." The person who sent the telegram was Cai Qirui, a graduate of Xiamen University in the 12th class.

For the sake of the call of the motherland, Cai Qirui went through all kinds of hardships and insisted on returning to China; for the needs of the country, he resolutely changed his career, gave up the field of structural chemistry that has made great achievements, turned to catalysis research from scratch, created the first catalysis teaching and research department in Chinese universities, built an important town for catalytic scientific research, and produced scientific research results in the land of China, becoming the founder and pioneer of China's catalytic chemistry community.

"The needs of the country, the direction of scientific research." Recently, Academician Zhaowu of Xiamen Datian recalled the past of Mr. Cai Qirui, and the eyes of the elderly still shine.

In fact, Tian Zhaowu's scientific research experience is also a patriotic story of serving the country. In the 1950s, in order to solve the problem of China's electrochemical research equipment relying on imports, Tian Zhaowu interdisciplinary self-study, "nibbled" mathematical equations, heat conduction, electronics and other theoretical knowledge that seemed to have little to do with chemistry at that time, and took the lead in carrying out electrochemical kinetics research in China. In 1974, he led the scientific research team to develop the "Electrochemistry Comprehensive Tester" successfully, providing test instrument conditions for the rapid development of electrochemistry in China. In 1978, the instrument won the National Science Congress Award.

Tian Zhaowu, who is now more than 90 years old, still has not changed his original intention: I will continue to work the one hand, to do some practical scientific research work; on the other hand, to actively offer suggestions and suggestions, and to do my best to repay the motherland. ”

At Xiamen University, the needs of the country are the mission of scientists. Patriotism, the aspiration to strengthen the country, and the service to the country have always inspired the generation of xiamen people to be determined to serve the country, go forward and continue to struggle.

"At that time, China was indeed shrouded in the haze of parasitic diseases, and if we did not do scientific research for the sake of human health, it would be meaningless!" Talking about why he chose the science of parasitology as his lifelong career, Academician Tang Chongti's simple words are not without strength, "To be the retrograde and pioneer that the motherland needs." She and her father, Academician Tang Zhongzhang, cut through thorns, explored and sought truth, took root in parasite research, and solved one after another difficult parasitology problems that endangered the health of the Chinese people.

"I do whatever the country needs to solve." It is precisely because of the great significance of atomic spectral analysis to national construction that Academician Huang Benli gave up his beloved photography and actively devoted himself to spectral analysis research, and built a first-class atomic spectroscopy laboratory in Xiamen University in the year of Hua Jia.

Whether it is the development of China's first piece of conductive glass and the first batch of zinc sulfide plus trace amount of rare earth impurities of electroluminescent materials, or the development of the only domestic chemical bond calculation software with independent intellectual property rights; whether it is to achieve the first set of user-type infrared free electron laser independently developed in China for the first time, or to establish the ocean main control edge of the sea carbon cycle theoretical framework; whether it is the establishment of the first academic institution at home and abroad engaged in comprehensive Taiwan research, creating a number of "first" and "unique" Taiwan research in mainland universities ", or created a precedent for Chinese universities to go abroad to run schools, become the first Chinese universities to have independent campus overseas branches of the university, a hundred years of Xiamen University, generations of Xiamen university adhering to the patriotic belief in serving the country, adhering to the "study of advanced learning" purpose of running the school, the country's major needs as their mission, the sincerity of serving the country as their lifelong ideal pursuit, the thesis written on the motherland.

A strong country in science and technology has the courage to take responsibility

Located in the laboratory of the National Engineering Research Center for Infectious Disease Diagnostic Reagents and Vaccines in the Xiang'an Campus of Xiamen University, the researchers led by Professor Xia Ningshao are carrying out scientific research day and night.

In 2020, in the face of the epidemic, the Xiamen University team was anxious about the country's urgency, stepped forward, bravely shouldered the burden, and the new crown virus test kit developed by the new crown virus has been widely used in more than 70 countries and regions around the world, and has been recommended by the World Health Organization; the nasal spray influenza virus vector new crown pneumonia vaccine developed by the State Drug Administration has passed the emergency approval of the State Drug Administration and has been approved to carry out clinical trials, becoming one of the five new crown pneumonia vaccine research and development technical routes in China. Prior to this, the first domestic first-generation cervical cancer vaccine developed by the team was approved for marketing at the end of 2019, and the world's first hepatitis E vaccine was successfully listed and promoted and applied worldwide.

"The spiritual belief that supports us to persist is the ideal of seeking health and well-being for the country and the people, and it is the belief of patriotism and service to the country!" It is precisely this kind of ideal and belief that makes us regard the national economy and the people's livelihood as a mission. There was firmness and pride in Xia Ningshao's words.

At 7:28 a.m. on April 23, 2019, a loud noise broke through the sky from the flight test launch position in the desert no man's land in northwest China. The "Jiageng-1" rocket developed by Xiamen University was ignited and lifted off, and the rocket with a total length of 8.7 meters flew to an altitude of 26.2 kilometers in an instant, leaving a long trajectory in the clear blue sky, and glide gracefully to the designated landing area.

This means that in the field of aerospace as a strategic industry, Xiamen University has taken an important step in the development of Reusable Rocket Technology in China, and contributed to the dream of serving the country in the air and space.

You Yancheng, the leader of the team, said: "Engaging in aerospace should be linked to national development and national destiny. Technically speaking, 'Jiageng-1' is a rocket-powered test vehicle. At a deeper level, 'Jiageng No. 1' is a mission and responsibility, which is our efforts to close to the national strategic needs and actively integrate into the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation! ”

The construction of a 3,000-ton "Jiageng" research vessel has reached the top level of the world's same type of scientific research vessel, setting a record of six firsts; successfully launched the world's first C-band light and small SAR satellite "Haisi No. 1" satellite to serve the marine environment and disaster monitoring and early warning, and promoted the extension of Xiamen University's existing marine observation capabilities from underwater and ground to the sky; developed the transonic UAV "Nanqiang No. 1" and achieved a successful first flight Developed the first 10-nanometer ultra-thin window liquid pool chip in the world: build a Jiageng Innovation Laboratory, focus on national strategic needs and local industrial development, take it as its mission to overcome the "card neck" technology and land industrialization achievements, and build a scientific and technological accelerator and industrial engine in the field of energy materials.

Focus on the world's scientific and technological frontiers, focus on the major strategic needs of the country and regions and the main battlefield of economic construction, take serving the country and revitalizing the nation as its own responsibility, and the centennial Xiamen University has the heart of a child who loves the country and serves the country, does the study of standing tall against the sky, serves the major strategies of the country, practices the mission of higher education, strives hard, struggles non-stop, self-improvement, and stops at the highest good.

(Reporter Ma Yuehua, correspondent of this newspaper, Ouyang Guilian)