The years are passing by, the summer begins, and another graduation season is here as promised.
On the morning of June 29, the 2024 graduation ceremony and degree awarding ceremony of Communication
University of China was grandly held at the Student Activity Center.
Deputy Party Secretary and President Zhang Shuting, Deputy Party Secretary and Secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission Lin Haibo, Party Standing Committee members and Vice Presidents Liu Shouxun, Li Xinjun, Wang Hui, Yang Yi, Chai Jianping, Party Standing Committee member and Organization Department Director Xu Hongmei, United Front Department Director Zhang Shaohua, Assistant to the President Jin Wei and members of the University's Degree Evaluation Committee, together with more than 5,000 graduates, gathered together to witness this graduation ceremony. The ceremony was presided over by Deputy Party Secretary Li Zhong.
Performers from various disciplines and representatives of graduates presented the opening song and dance “Lush Branches and Leaves”, which was jointly created by teachers and students from our School of Music and Recording Arts.
At 8:30 a.m., the graduation ceremony officially began with everyone standing up and singing the national anthem.
Party Secretary Liao Xiangzhong was unable to attend the ceremony because he was studying at the Party School, so he wrote a graduation message for the students with deep affection.
Dear students,
When artificial intelligence sweeps the world with thunderous force,
You have graduated!
The era of great changes is like a dream!
The great changes that AI brings to human society may be beyond your cognition and imagination!
At this moment, you set out from the place where the heart lamp is lit,
Facing the huge waves, running towards the distance.
Please don't forget:
You are here for the future!
The great era that belongs to you has arrived!
I hope that students will have the ambition to serve the country through the media,
Follow your dreams with all your heart, and dare to compete!
Sing on the waves and drive the light forward!
I hope that students
Be affectionate, righteous and principled,
Work colorfully and effectively,
Live interestingly and tastefully!
Go to pursue, embrace and taste the nine haves life.
After several years, students
Maybe feel the haziness and beauty of Lushan Misty Rain,
Maybe appreciate the surging and heroic Zhejiang Tide.
No matter what kind of human scene you experience,
I hope that everyone can truly understand
the wonderful meaning and wisdom of Lushan Misty Rain and Zhejiang Tide!
Work hard and live happily!
Live up to this life and the times!
Classmates, the future belongs to you, happy graduation!
Bless you!
Li Xinjun read out the Resolution on Graduation Qualification and Degree Awarding for the Class of 2024 Undergraduate Graduates.
Liu Shouxun read out the Resolution on Graduation Qualification and Degree Awarding for Master's and Doctoral Degrees for the Class of 2024.
Fan Zichen, a 2024 graduate of the Advertising School who was awarded the title of Most Beautiful Family in China, took the stage with his father Fan Zhigang and mother Song Huifang. Song Huifang spoke as a parent representative, sharing her son's growth and changes in the four years of college, thanking the school for its education and training, and wishing the graduates to be strong and make continuous progress in their future lives.
Zhao Xinli, dean of the School of Advertising, spoke as a representative of the faculty. He shared his own experience in studying and researching, and told the students not to set limits for themselves, to downplay their majors, strengthen their abilities, maintain perseverance and passion, use a broad vision to achieve great things, and become cross-disciplinary and integrated compound talents.
Zhang Yang, a 2007 journalism graduate, Xinhua News Agency reporter, and winner of the first prize of the China News Award, spoke as an alumni representative. By reviewing her own learning and working experience, she encouraged the students to keep up with the pace of the fast-paced era, cherish every slow motion, and pursue their own meaning and value. She was grateful to her alma mater for teaching her the courage to embrace change and the confidence to cross the times, and wished the graduates a bright future.
Lin Haibo read out the commendation decision for our school’s 2024 “Outstanding Graduates of Colleges and Universities in Beijing”, “Outstanding Graduates at the School Level”, “Three Good Students” and “Outstanding Student Leaders”.
Twelve Olympic torches that had participated in the relay were displayed at the ceremony.
Graduates Tang Qinhan, Li Yujia and Geng Peihao, who had participated in volunteer service for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, spoke as representatives of the graduates. They reviewed their respective experiences in volunteer service for the Olympic Games, shared their gains and experiences in the process, and jointly called on students to cherish their dreams and become media professionals with an international perspective who are moral, dedicated, knowledgeable, and competitive, promote morality, and apply knowledge to the world.
Since the first participation in the Olympic Games broadcasting in the 1980s, Communication University of China has never been absent from the Olympic front line for more than 40 years, and has made special contributions to the dissemination of the Olympic spirit in China and the world. Among this year's graduates, nearly 300 people participated in the volunteer service of the Beijing Winter Olympics. Their selfless dedication and outstanding performance have won wide acclaim from the international community.
Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee, also sent his blessings to the graduates of Communication University of China through a video. In his speech, President Bach said that the graduates of Communication University of China have not only achieved excellent academic results, but also demonstrated outstanding volunteer service capabilities and team spirit in international sports events. Everyone's dedication and hard work have made important contributions to the successful hosting of the Olympic Games. President Bach praised Communication University of China as a famous university known for its academic excellence and communication field, and played an important role in the dissemination and promotion of the international Olympic movement. He also encouraged graduates of Communication University of China to follow the example of outstanding alumni and spread the Olympic spirit of faster, higher, stronger and more united. Finally, President Bach expressed his best wishes for the 70th anniversary of Communication University of China.
Amidst warm applause, Zhang Shuting delivered a speech entitled Be Your Confident Self and Reach Infinite Possibilities in Life, sending his best wishes to all graduates and expressing his gratitude to the hard-working faculty and staff, parents, alumni and people from all walks of life who care about and support the development of the school. He encouraged the graduates to be confident media professionals, to determine their direction with a sense of mission, to embrace challenges with creativity, to realize their ideals with action, to face ups and downs with composure, to walk their own Long March and reach infinite possibilities in life.
Zhang Shuting thanked President Bach for his high recognition of the school's contribution to the international Olympic cause and his good wishes for the school, and encouraged the graduates to continue to carry forward the Olympic spirit and show the world the confident demeanor of Chinese youth in the new era.
Zhang Shuting reviewed the growth process of this year's graduates. He said that the students worked hard, cherished the spring, faced the rising sun, and grew vigorously, leaving a unique mark in the history of the school and writing their own youth stories.
The direction of the gears of personal destiny is always embedded in the direction of the surging tide of the times. Zhang Shuting emphasized that there is no standard answer to the questions of the times. Everyone can write a unique and wonderful answer through their own efforts. Be confident and reach the infinite possibilities of life. The premise of self-confidence is belief. Students should believe that the four confidences give everyone the most solid confidence in life; believe that all the efforts and gains in CCUT give everyone the hard-core strength of confidence; believe that artificial intelligence brings infinite possibilities to the media ecology and builds a broad stage for everyone's life.
Zhang Shuting expressed four expectations to the graduates. First, they should have a firm sense of mission of I wish to serve the country for the rest of my life, always have the country in my heart and the world in my eyes, tell China's stories well and spread China's voice well; second, they should maintain the innovative spirit of the ingenuity of nature and the constant innovation of man, dare to think and act, dare to take risks and try, actively expand the boundaries of their careers, climb higher to their ideals and go further in life; third, they should persist in the action of never return until Loulan is conquered, improve sustainable competitiveness with persistent action, confidently embrace the future and meet challenges; fourth, they should cultivate a calm mind of better than strolling in a garden, not afraid of wind and rain, and not afraid to move forward.
Zhang Shuting fondly recalled the development of the school from the Central Broadcasting Bureau Technical Personnel Training Class to the current Double First-Class University. Generations of CCUT people are loyal, confident, tolerant, and competitive. They have always walked in the same direction with the Party and the country, and have written a chapter of CCUT that is worthy of the motherland, the people, and the times. This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the school. We welcome graduates to return home as alumni in September.
Don't worry about the thousands of miles, there will be a breeze. Zhang Shuting encouraged students to be ideal and responsible activists, be confident, and touch the infinite possibilities of life on the new journey of comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization.
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Ding Wenhua, Chinese astronaut Liu Yang, CCTV host Kang Hui, Vice President of the China Television Drama Directors Association Yang Yang, and International Olympic Committee Culture and Olympic Heritage Committee member Hou Kun, as well as other outstanding people and alumni from all walks of life sent their graduation wishes to the graduates, encouraging them to give full play to their professional characteristics, tell China's stories well, and make more contributions to the development of the global media industry.
At the end of the ceremony, the atmosphere reached its climax with the song medley To Youth and the joint singing of the school song There is a row of young poplars on the campus.
Zhang Shuting and other members of the school's degree evaluation committee presented degree certificates to representatives of graduates who received doctoral, master's and bachelor's degrees.
The planning, design, directing, filming, live broadcasting, and promotion of this graduation ceremony were all undertaken by teachers and students, which reflects the professionalism of our teachers and students in the field of media integration and is the result of the school's multi-disciplinary joint internship teaching practice. Teachers from the School of Drama and Film led students from the photography major to capture the precious moments of the degree awarding for each graduate.
The graduation ceremony was broadcast live on more than 30 platforms, including Xuexi Qiangguo, Weiyan Education, People's Daily Client, People's Video, Xinhua News Agency New Media Matrix, Xinhuanet, CCTV Video, CCTV.com, China Daily New Media Matrix, China Youth Daily, Beijing Daily, Beijing News, Beijing Time, Sichuan Observer, Shandong Radio and Television New Media Platform, Guizhou Radio and Television New Media Platform, WeChat Video Account, Sina Weibo, Douyin, Kuaishou, Baidu Baijiahao, iQiyi, Sohu Video, the APP and Website of CUC.
Reporter: Shang Xinying
Photographers: Shen Haowen, Wang Yunqi, etc.
