[New Hunan] The president of Hunan University of Commerce Chen Xiaohong said: ”Don't be an exquisite egoist.”
2016-11-23
Today students from all corners of the country come to the foot of Lushan Mountain and the bank of Xiangjiang River and the beautiful Hunan University of Commerce, here I give heartfelt congratulations and warm welcome to all freshmen on behalf of the university, secretary Yayang and over 20,000 teachers, students and staff, and also sincerely thank your parents for their hard cultivating all of you!
Speeches delivered by representatives of old boy, freshman, teacher and parent just now are very good. Our university has a glorious history for 67 years, and it was renamed for many times with address changed for many times within 67 years, and our university always shares the same breath with our nation and follows its fortunes and continuously develops. Generations of members of Hunan University of Commerce have taken the responsibility of cultivating "Economic Hunan Army" and also kept it in mind to drive spanning development of the university.
Our university is an excellent university upon undergraduate course teaching level evaluated by Ministry of Education. In the 67-year teaching course, our university has cultivated many excellent entrepreneurs and outstanding professional managers, and over 100,000 students of Hunan University of Commerce have become current leaders, making contributions during serving economic and social development and creating anecdotes and legends. Now the university is coming toward us with sonorous footsteps based on glorious history!
When understanding history, you can know today's magnificence better and understand tomorrow's responsibility and goal better. What's the target of Hunan University of Commerce? Our target is to strive to build a high level university of finance and economics by reform and innovation, connotative development, quality promotion, establishing feature and creating brand. Thus, students shall realize the target in full sail with the spirit of seizing every minute in the future! I believe that the future Hunan University of Finance and Economics can become true in our era!
Standing on the new starting point of four-year college life, students, you have many longings and aspirations, are you ready for acting out for your longing? As the president, I put forward three hopes for everyone.
Firstly, I hope that you can show high ideals and have sincere behavior.
As an old saying goes: "You won't be successful without ambition". Students, you must have a dream, faith and responsibility. In case of wanting to be successful and gaining notable success, it's necessary to first show your high ideals. General Secretary Xi said: "Stay true to the mission and firmly move ahead. The original intention of Party is to make country prosperous and strong and people happy. Now we insist on walking the road of innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing, which depends on guidance of original intention and we walk the right road.
Students, what are your original intentions and ambitions? I have read an essay written by Taiwan proser Lin Qingxuan. He said: "return to the simplest original intention, leave the noise in the world alone, only hope we can be slightly delighted and see the world with lustration heart". I think that we need to be quiet and ask our original intention in the increasingly impetuous era with fast development and multiple choices, and don't forget our belief, lose our soul and direction for moving ahead due to walking too fast and move ahead with soul.
Of course, your goals cannot be too worldly or you cannot only pursue money and fame and gain, don't be an exquisite egoist or indifferent egoist. If you want to be a salesman, set the original intention of not selling forged and fake commodities or not swindling all your life. If you earn RMB 100 million, you shall think about how much money I can donate to repay the society, country, family and alma mater. It's the requirement of our school motto "Sincerity & Credibility".
Secondly, I hope that you can study hard and keep on thinking.
It's an era of information explosion with constantly changing conditions today. Internet, mobile internet, Internet of things, big data, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, cloud computing and green technology, etc., are thoroughly changing the world and our life. In the face of the changing world, we can't behave like the ostrich burying its head in the sand and we shall bravely adapt to change and embrace change.
It's required that students must have system thinking, be diligent, be quick at thinking, find good interest, look for the truth, be innovative and learn to choose. Because only by constantly learning in such era, you can keep up with the pace of the era, be easy to deal with everything and won't be out and weeded out. The excellent schoolfellow Ning Songkai in Guangdong Class in 1996 of our university came back to the university some time ago and donated to set up "Award Fund for Thanking Excellent Teachers". He once was a policeman, and later he came to our university for learning, and he said that he much deeply felt that knowledge changes destiny after more experience and struggle accumulation. Now he becomes the elite with venture success in Guangdong, and also an entrepreneur understand thanksgiving well. Students, "an educated gentleman cannot but be resolute and broad-minded, for he has taken up a heavy responsibility and a long course", "God rewards the diligent" and "there is no difficulty if you are diligent enough. I hope everyone can be a person studying hard all your life, continuously pursue new knowledge, grasp profound specialized knowledge, and keep curiosity and imagination, arm your brain with knowledge, make your brain full of knowledge first, and then make your pocket full of money and strive to become elites influencing Hunan, China and even the world.
Thirdly, I hope that you can be self-disciplined and positive.
Everyone shall be his own master. Self-discipline is a required course for life, especially in university. It says that forming thought can cause corresponding behavior; Forming behavior can cause corresponding habit; Forming habit can cause corresponding character; Forming character can cause corresponding fortune and future. Cultivation of self-discipline ability is the key for forming good behavior and habit.
We think a good university shall have beautiful scenery as well as good atmosphere. Only good atmosphere can cultivate excellent talents with good character. Therefore, please don't be "smartphone addict", "Phone Freak" or "video game addict", read more classical works accumulated for a thousand years, "one who is filled with knowledge always behaves in elegance" and don't read box news formed in a rough way; Spend more time to participate in collective activity and club activity to exercise the ability of communication, and don't indulge in illusion of virtual world; Learn and cultivate more own scientific methods, just attitude and manful determination, and don't waste life in current games and having fun. Don't cheat on an examination, say goodbye to sluttery and indolence, don't allow making trouble out of nothing, talebearing, cyber-violence, selfishness or rascality by cultivating self-discipline ability. Hope students can strive to make diligence and excellence become a habit, have sincere, kind, upright and other good quality, and gather sufficient positive energy to make your life become colorful!
(This is the speech by President Chen Xiaohong at the 2016 freshman opening ceremony of Hunan University of Commerce)
