On the afternoon of January 13th, Qufu Normal University held a grand New Year's Festival Greeting Activity in 2020. Qi Wanxue, Xia Yunjie, Feng Chong, Xu Sisheng, Lu Guoqiang, Guo Qingbing, Zhang Longhai, the leaders of school party committee, with retired veteran comrades representatives, representatives of staff of various departments gathered together to welcome the Spring Festival and discuss how to develop the school better.

On the spot, the party was decorated with red lanterns, the traditional word "Fu" Chinese knot and the red auspicious clouds of the stage background that set off a strong flavor of the year. The slogan “The revival is strong, Quyuan spring is beautiful” highlighted the cultural confidence and mission of Quyuan people.

Qi Wanxue, secretary of the party committee, delivered an inspiring speech at the meeting, made an inventory of the achievements, looked forward to the future of school and sent new year’s greetings to everyone.

Looking back to 2019: Quyuan has made brilliant achievements in every aspect

Qi Wanxue pointed out in his speech that in 2019, the school led the work with the spirit of the party building, carried out solid education on the theme of “Remain true to our original aspiration and keep our mission firmly in mind”, comprehensively and strictly administered the party and continued to improve the political ecology of the campus. The development of school connotation has been got achievements frequently, in personnel training, discipline construction, scientific research and innovation, teaching staff, cultural schools and other aspects had continuous developments, highlighted new achievements. Comprehensive strength and school reputation continues to climb, the campus changed rapidly and various undertakings showed vigorous vitality. The external environment also showed a positive trend, the development of schools got attention, support by the Ministry of Education, Provincial Party Committee and Provincial government.

Qi Wanxue stressed that all the achievements made in 2019 were made by the cadres, teachers and students of the whole school who makes a great contribution, this can not be separated from the great help of retired cadres. It is hoped that the veteran comrades will continue to pay attention to and support the development of schools, and contribute wisdom to the development of various undertakings in schools. All functional departments of the school should further strengthen their sense of service and responsibility, be sincere and eager to do a good job of service for veteran comrades, so that every elder has someone to rely on, has something to do and enjoy the elderly.

Looking forward to 2020: Quyuan has hopeful futures

In his speech, Qi Wanxue gave high respect and sincere wishes to the teaching staff and retired veteran comrades who have made positive contributions to the development of the school.

Qi Wanxue said, today's Qufu Normal University is in the best historical node, we are full of confidence and expectations for the future. At the beginning of 2020, the school has made many achievements: first, the school was selected as the "the construction base of teachers’ ethics and style of Ministry of Education ", a total of 10 schools across the country, our school is the only selected units in Shandong Province; Second, the West Campus, has been explicitly built by Jining City, will start after the year, to solve the problem that troubled us for many years of poor space for running schools; Third, the Provincial Education Department is about to sign an agreement with Jining City to jointly build Qufu Normal University, to support our school to become a key universities in Shandong Province. That brings new advantages, and add new engines for our school to revive the glory of Quyuan and build a hundred-year historical university in Confucius' hometown.

Qi Wanxue stressed that 2020 is the decisive year to build a well-off society in an all-round way and achieve the goal of the first hundred years of struggle. It is also the key year to adhere to the law and speed up the modernization of the school governance system and governance ability. The whole school are guided by Xi Jinping's thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, and fully implement the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Party and the previous plenary sessions of the 19th CPC National Congress and the spirit of the National Education Congress. With the spirit of toughness and kindness, we want to work together and continue to struggle, accelerate the pace of building the first-class university in Confucius hometown, and achieve the goal of reviving the glory of Quyuan.

Welcome New Year: Feel the Warmness of Quyuan Family

At the party, Qufu Normal University’s teachers and students dedicated a wonderful performance performance of literature and art for retired veteran comrades, representatives of the staff of various departments to feel the warmth of the Quyuan family.

After the performance, Qi Wanxue and other veteran comrades and teachers on the scene shake hands and extend festival greetings one by one.

The veteran comrades and the teachers attending the Spring Festival delegation have said that the school’s development in recent years has been bright and changing with each passing day. In 2019, the school has made a number of breakthroughs in various aspects, these achievements encouraged people with full of confidence and expectations for the future development of Quyuan. They wished the school in 2020 will achieve greater development in constructing the first-class university in Confucius hometown!