Themed as “ask about needs, talk about growth, do practical things, and seek development”, the reception day with the president and Party secretary of Xi’an Peihua University was successfully held on April 30 in the cafe on the third floor of the Innovation Center on campus, to build a bridge between school leaders and young people, to implement the concept of “do practical things for students”, to further safeguard the rights and interests of young students in Peihua, and to “create a good learning atmosphere and educate good young people of the new era”.
The event was hosted by Dong Ying, Secretary of the Youth League Committee, and attended by Liu Feng, Party Secretary of Xi’an Peihua University; Quan Yongtai, Director of the Student Affairs Department of Party Committee; Zhang Jingyuan, Director of the Logistics Service Center; Min Bo, Deputy Director of Weizhi Library; Meng Qian, Assistant Director of the Educational Administration Centre; Wang Bin, Deputy Director of Peihua Hospital; Jiang Junrui, Director of the “One-Stop” Community Work Office; Lv Gailian, teacher of the Development Center for Students’ Potential; Ji Fangfang, Head of the Preventive Care Department of Peihua Hospital, and relevant teachers from the Youth League Committee, Student Service Center, and Funding Management Center, and 15 student representatives selected through the registration channel for the Reception Day with the President and Party Secretary.
Icebreaker Game
In order to let the participating teachers and students get familiar with and communicate with each other quickly, before the activity started, Lv Gailian, teacher of the Development Center for Students’ Potential, organized everyone to sit in a circle and play a game called “Make Raindrops”. In the stormy applause, the event started in a pleasant and relaxing atmosphere.
During the two-hour face-to-face communication, students made suggestions to the school leaders on educational administration, logistics, career planning, campus safety, etc., and Party Secretary Liu Feng and the heads of relevant centers gave positive responses to the students.
Min Bo, Deputy Director of the library, and Jiang Junrui, Director of the “one-stop” community work office, answered the questions from Sang Wei, a student from the School of Media and Design, about the school library and the public study room of the student dormitory building, where people left without clearing the tables and occupied seats at will. From the perspective of management, the two teachers answered that the library, student managers of each floor and teachers on duty in the dormitory building would strengthen management and give regular reminders. They also called on students to take care of the public environment, study when they are there, take all the stuff when they leave, and jointly create a harmonious learning atmosphere.
Sun Qiang, a student majoring in Electronic Information Engineering from the School of Intelligent Science and Engineering, hoped that by adding practical courses, students could go out of the classroom and into the laboratory to improve their professional skills. Ms. Meng Qian, Assistant Director of the Educational Administration Centre, gave an explanation from the point view of different majors and their requirements set in the professional personnel cultivation project, including the course arrangement, plan and class hours for internships and practical courses. She also reminded students to lay a solid foundation of theoretical knowledge, improve their practical ability with solid theoretical knowledge and strive to be the practical and technical talents.
In response to Zhao Mei, a student from the School of Medicine, Wang Bin, Deputy Director of Peihua Hospital, explained in detail the procedure of medical treatment and pharmaceutical procurement. And he added that the over-the-counter products can be purchased directly in the campus hospital while prescriptions and other pharmaceutical that require medical advice from doctors can only be purchased after seeing the doctors. At last, he assured that all medical staff at the campus hospital will do their best to keep the students healthy.
Yang Ze, a junior student from the School of Humanities and International Education, said that when he participated in social practice activities to “bring Culture, Science and Technology, Hygienic Health to the Countryside”, where he had applied what he had learnt in classroom to social practice, he found that attending lectures is not the same as giving lectures, so he suggested that the school should hold more lectures made by senior students sharing their teaching experience. Quan Yongtai, Director of the Student Affairs Department of Party Committee, answered that the Learning and Development Section of the Student Service Center, the Youth League Committee, and each school will hold regular experience sharing activities named “Seniors Say” and regular lectures by “Peer Lecturers” in student community, where experienced seniors can answer questions and share experiences to provide more opportunities for more students to know more about “their stories on the podium”. He added that in the future, the Learning and Development Section of the Student Service Center and the Youth League Committee will widen their publicity with more channels to let more students know and participate in these experience exchange activities.
Min Bo, Deputy Director of the library, added that he hoped that students could take all their initiative to study, plan their spare time reasonably, and make good use of the rich learning resources in the library, so that they could gain knowledge in the classroom, practice skills on campus, and develop their talents in practice.
Li Haonan, a student from the School of Intelligent Science and Engineering, mentioned that motorcycles and electric bicycles on campus are at high speed and park randomly. Zhang Jingyuan, Director of the Logistics Service Center, replied that for those traffic safety problems on campus, the university will introduce relevant rules and regulations to standardize traffic management, such as registering the owners’ information of all the motorcycles and electric bicycles on campus, asking the owners to sign a commitment to driving safely on campus, setting speed limits based the time and location, setting up more parking lots with roof and more charging stations for motorcycle and electric bicycles, and adding bullet bags, firewalls and other fire prevention equipment and facilities. At the same time, he called on students to be truly aware of safety, advocate green mobility, and strive to keep the campus safe and stable.
Xue Siyi, a student from the School of Humanities and International Education, pointed out that the installation of window limiters had made student apartments less ventilated, so she hoped to better ventilate the room while still ensuring safety.
Zhang Jingyuan, Director of the Logistics Service Center, and Jiang Junrui, Director of the “One-Stop” Community Work Office, patiently explained the purpose of installing window limiters in student dormitories, and assured that they would investigate the dormitories and seek proper adjustments of window limiters to satisfy the students’ need of room ventilation according to the actual results of investigation and under the premise of ensuring safety.
Zhang Bicen, a student from the School of Humanities and International Education, reported many problems in the reservation system for the public washing machines in the dormitories, and that the machines were often used by non-reserved users. The washing machine hadn’t been cleaned in time after frequent use so that the clothes could not be well washed. The washing machine often malfunctioned, and the repair was quite slow after the problem was reported. The barreled water was not delivered in time.
Zhang Jingyuan, Director of the Logistics Service Center, assured the students that the Logistics Service Center would improve its supervision and management, and communicate with sellers soon to improve service quality.
In conclusion, Liu Feng, Party Secretary of Xi’an Peihua University, said that the university would integrate the resources and parties of all sides, focus on the problems in the management and education, adhere to multi-role participation, multi-channel communication, guarantees of many aspects, and promotion in every aspect, do practical things, really solve the most pressing difficulties of high concern to the students, and effectively relieve students of their worries, so to enhance students’ sense of happiness and fulfillment on campus.
Liu Feng gave some suggestions to the young people in Peihua. First, they should care about the development of Peihua and make suggestions actively so as to build a beautiful campus together. Second, they should keep a watchful eye and try to be a supervisor everywhere, so that when they spot some improper behavior, they should stop and report them in time. Third, they should accumulate their knowledge, read more books, restrain themselves, and take initiative to behave well on campus.
After the exchange, Liu Feng and other teachers sent pot plants named “seedling of Peihua” to the students as gifts in the hope that the students, like the plants, take in the “water” of knowledge and skills in Peihua, take root deep down, grow towards the sun, and thrive like the seedlings.
Reception Day with the President
Reception Day of the President in Peihua has been set up since 2015 to establish a communication platform, keep the channels of communication open, collect students’ suggestions about the work of the university, enrich the campus culture, promote development and construction of Peihua, and inherit the school-running philosophy of “putting people and morality first”. The Reception Day has provided more channels for teachers and students to participate in school development, guaranteed the teachers and students’ right to know, participate in and supervise the work in the university, improving the teachers and students’ satisfaction with the work in the university, and creating a good atmosphere of campus culture.
On each Reception Day of the President, students are randomly selected by the system to meet face to face with school leaders and teachers from all departments, and ask and answer questions about the problems students encounter in life and study.
Reception Day of the President and Party Secretary is one of the ways for Peihua to listen to students. In addition, Jiang Bo, Chairman of the board of Peihua and leaders of departments at all levels also shared their personal or office telephone numbers with teachers and students for them to report problems conveniently. The university advocates and implements humane and transparent management in education, management and logistics, so that teachers and students can make suggestions through multiple channels. All the people in Peihua supervise and promote each other top-down or bottom-up, forming a harmonious, positive, clean and upright atmosphere.
