Home > News & Events > News > Content

2024 Freshmen Opening Ceremony held

Opening Ceremony on Jiaojiang Campus

Opening Ceremony on Linhai Campus

2024 Freshmen Opening Ceremony

September 8 and 9 witnessed the opening ceremony of TU for freshmen of 2024 held on Jiaojiang Campus and Linhai Campus respectively. More than 4880 students formally became students at TU. University leaders Zhu Jian, Le Chuanyong, Li Junmin, Lou Danqun, Han Deman, Li Jianjun, Ding Yizhi, Cai Haijiang, Zheng Lijun attended the ceremony. Xiang Fengri, Deputy Secretary of the CPC TU Committee, presided over the ceremony.

The ceremony started with the playing of the national anthem.

Zhu Jian, Secretary of the CPC TU Committee, wears the university badge for the freshmen representative

Le Chuanyong, President and Deputy Secretary of the CPC TU Committee, wears the university badge for the freshmen representative

Group photo of the freshmen representatives wearing the university badges on Jiaojiang Campus

Group photo of the freshmen representatives wearing the university badges on Linhai Campus

University leaders put on the university badges for the representative freshmen. From now on, all the freshmen have a common identity—“TUer”. (note: the shortened addressing of Taizhou University is TU. Those who are studying or working at TU are called TUers.) The badge will push the freshmen to practice the school motto “Immerse yourself in ethical integrity; Arm yourself with well-timed facility” and achieve their best.

Le Chuanyong delivers a speech

Le Chuanyong, President and Deputy Secretary of the CPC TU Committee, welcomed all the freshmen and wished them “writing a youthful and fruitful chapter of their life”. Le pointed out that Taizhou’s unique geographic location has created a unique temperament of softness and fortitude, as well as gentleness and boldness. It is a city worthy of deep rooting. Taizhou is the birthplace of China’s private economy, the cradle of China’s joint-stock cooperative economy, the pioneering place of China’s market economy. For the past three consecutive years, Taizhou has secured its show-up in the Spring Festival Gala of China.

Looking back at the university’s history of more than 100 years, Le Chuanyong pointed out that, as Taizhou’s “highest-level educational institution”, TU has risen from specialized education to undergraduate education and then to postgraduate education, from a teachers’ training school to a comprehensive university and then to a university strong in science and technology, teacher training and medical science, and humanities and social sciences.

Le Chuanyong emphasized that, in recent years, Taizhou University has been concentrating its efforts on the task of “upgrading to a higher-level university; applying for doctor’s degree programs; striving to be first-class” and adhering to the philosophy of integrated construction of disciplines and professional degree programs, hence achieving the enhancement in terms of schooling and making the university a promising university. He hoped that all the freshmen get involved in the historical development of Taizhou and TU. He shared his ideas on “how to live a good college life” with the freshmen present.

Deans of second-level schools address freshmen

Deans of second-level schools addressed the freshmen present, encouraging them to get lofty ideals, improve their professional level, enhance their scientific research ability, maintain their physical and mental health, bravely meet challenges, constantly transcend themselves, and show their youthful style on the brand-new playing field.

Gao Yuan (left) and Chen Yijun (right) speak as representatives of outstanding alumni

Gao Yuan, a graduate of the School of Pharmaceutical and Chemical Engineering, and Chen Yijun, a graduate of the School of Foreign Languages, spoke on behalf of the outstanding alumni, encouraging all the freshmen to cherish the most valuable and crucial time of their lives, develop themselves in continuous attempts, plan for themselves in struggles, and achieve their own successes in perseverance, and wishing all of them to harvest the most in this fertile soil.

Hu Chundan (left), Liu Haotian (center), and Shen Yihan (right) speak on behalf of freshmen

Hu Chundan, a graduate student of the School of Life Sciences, Liu Haotian, an undergraduate student of the School of Materials Science and Engineering, and Shen Yihan, an undergraduate student of the School of Marxism, spoke on behalf of the freshmen, saying that they would work together with their classmates to continuously improve themselves and strive for their ideals and visions.

Zhang Mengqin and Li Mutaozi, members of the Presidium of the TU Student Union, led all the freshmen to take the oath, promising to uphold the spirit of the school motto and contribute to the development of TU.

The opening ceremony ended with the singing of the university song.

Zhu Jian gives the freshmen the first “Ideo-political Lesson”

After the ceremony, Zhu Jian, Secretary of the CPC TU Committee, gave the first “Ideo-political Lesson” to all the 2024 freshmen. The title of the lesson is “Cultivating Family and Country Sentiment, Forging the Will of Reclamation, and Enhancing Solid Skills”. He encouraged the freshmen to measure the meaning of college with their own “brains” and “feet”, and write fascinating stories about their youth, so as to become a better version of themselves.

Lion dance performance

Poem recitation “Meeting TU: Salute to the Future”

Song and dance “I Love You, China”

Before the opening ceremony, students from the School of Humanities, the School of Art and Design, and the School of Teacher Education brought dragon and lion dances, poem recitation, and cross-singing songs to the teachers and students on the spot.

The heads of secondary schools and relevant functional departments, head teachers and counselors, as well as all the 2024 undergraduate and graduate freshmen attended the ceremony.