On the afternoon of August 26th, the first session of the Alumni Association President Forum and the 1,000-day countdown to the 70th Anniversary of SDUT was held in the lecture hall of the No. 3 Teaching Building. School leaders HU Xingyu, LI Yuxia, YANG Yun, SU Shoubo, NIE Faliang, CUI Huanyong, CHEN Shengwei, CONG Hailin, and CHEN Jing attended the forum. Nearly 90presidents and secretaries from colleges, industries, featured Alumni Associations and Alumni Associations in 45 regions, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Xi’an, Jinan, Qingdao, etc., heads of relevant functional departments, secretaries of the Party Committee, deans and people in charge of alumni work of each academic school, some retired teachers and representatives of teachers and students participated the forum. SU Shoubo, a member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and vice president of SDUT, presided over the ceremony.
HU Xingyu, secretary of the Party Committee and president of the Alumni Association of SDUT, extended a warm welcome to all the alumni. He stressed that the Alma mater should support and help its alumni to achieve their goals, and vise versa. The Alma mater is the spiritual home of alumni, and alumni are proud of their Alma mater. What’s more, alumni are the stars rising from Alma mater, and Alma mater is proud of their growth. SDUT should always actively create favorable conditions for the growth and development of alumni.
HU Xingyu proposed three points on how to perfect the 70th anniversary of SDUT and continuously optimize the alumni-related work. Firstly, we should continue to strengthen the construction and organization of the alumni association, shaping it into the “SDUT as the main body,alumni associations as wings” system to build 200alumni associations nationwide as soon as possible. Secondly, we should actively participate in the construction and management of resources, comprehensively strengthening exchanges and cooperation with the government, enterprises, research institutes, alumni, etc., to gather more resources for the development of SDUT. The Alumni Association should play the role of a liaison, coordinator and server between the Alma mater and alumni and strive to build a community of alumni and Alma mater with shared future. Thirdly, we must solidly plan and prepare for the 70th anniversary. The ceremony officially issued the Assembly Call of the 70th anniversary. It is necessary to strengthen systematic thinking, make overall planning, and strive to make the 70th anniversary a grand event to sum up the history, carry forward the culture of SDUT, unite and gather strength, as well as explore and innovate.
The ceremony saw the appointment of ambassadors of 70th anniversary. SDUT selected the first batch of twenty ambassadors who have fought in the front line of teaching and research as well as service management and are familiar with the history and situation of the school. President LI Yuxia issued letters of appointment to them.
At the end of the ceremony, HU Xingyu, secretary of the Party Committee of SDUT, LI Yuxia, president of SDUT, WEI Zhenwen, president of the Qingdao Alumni Association, LU Tianbao, president of the Binzhou Alumni Association, JIA Qingxuan, president of the Beijing Alumni Association, TAO Zonggang, president of the Guangzhou Alumni Association, ZHAO Hualong, the representative of celebration ambassador, and CHENG Caixin, Presidium candidate of the Student Union of SDUT, jointly launched the 1,000-day countdown to the 70th anniversary of SDUT.
During the forum session, LI Cunfeng, deputy director of the Alumni Work Office, vice president, and general secretary of the Alumni Association of Peking University, made a keynote report, sharing his experience in organization, information construction, as well as fund construction. ZHOU Bohu, president of Jinan Alumni Association, CHENG Haifeng, vice president and general secretary of Zibo Alumni Association, and president of Youth Innovation & Entrepreneurship Alliance, and ZHANG Botao, president of Beijing Youth Alumni Association, respectively made reports on the work experience of alumni organizations. The head of the Development & Planning Division made the work report of the Alumni Association and issued the Manual of Standardized Construction of Alumni Organizations.