Efforts of Seventy Decades to Chase the Light Endeavor of A Century to Pursue the Dream ---A Celebration Held for the 70th Anniversary of SUEP

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The evening of October 16 witnessed a brightly-lit open theater and a big party of distinguished guests. The celebration of the 70th anniversary of the founding of our university started at 6:30 P.M in the playground on Lin’gang Campus. Among the distinguished guests on the spot, there are Ling Mingfu, Party Secretary of SUEP, Li Hexing, president and Vice Party Secretary of SUEP, and three vice presidents like Weng Peifen, Feng Jinzhang and Fu Yang. Besides, executives from different departments, heads of all the colleges, and Secretaries of the Youth League from all the colleges were invited to watch the show along with 3,000 students. The show was live televised via the social media of our university on the Internet. The online audience outnumbered 71, 000. 

With the theme “Efforts of Seventy Years to Chase the Light and Endeavor of a Century to Pursue the Dream”, this big evening party was split into the first half “Blue Is the Color of Electric Power” and the second “Red is the Color of Chinese Dream”.

The first half began with the chorus The Path of Light and the singers are from the College of Humanities and Liberal Arts, the Labor Union, and the Department of CPC Publicity. They sang praise of the remarkable achievements of this university and extolled the glorious history of CPC during the past century. 

The dance Red presented by the Street Dance Society kindled the passion of the audience immediately, which fully displays the vigor and vitality of SUEP students and their enterprising spirit. Gu Wenchang and Zhu Jie, two alumni, sang the song Chasing the Light on behalf of their colleges to recall their beautiful university days. The Faculty Choir and the Faculty Dance Troupe presented Mien as a handsel to the 70th anniversary of the founding of the university. From their performance we saw another bright side in them out of the classroom. 

The dance Smart SUEP and Thrilling Youth was performed by the dancers from the College of Electronics and Information Engineering and the College of Automation Engineering, which showed the amazing scientific mentality of our university students. Their neat and uniform dance highlights the disciplinary ascendency and achievements of our university.

Singers from each college sang the song Tomorrow Will Be Better to express their best wishes to the university. They joined efforts to cut into pieces the birthday cake exclusively for the university and shared the happiness with the faculty and students present. All the staffs and students also expressed their wishes in their own ways. The open theater was lit up by the neon light sticks and the event reached the climax.

In the second half, the University Choir took the lead to chant the song Applause for the New Century. On behalf of all the faculty and students of SUEP, they made our voice heard that while in youthful days, we will embrace the new century with passion; we will start a new journey and strive to make greater achievements in the future. The Heart of Light presented by the University Drama Society brought all the audience back to the first day they came to the university and the words their parents said to them. It is regarded as the first gift to the freshmen and it is also the mission for SUEP people to go on undertaking. This year coincides with the centennial anniversary of the founding of CPC. One more time we were basked in the sunlight of CPC as the University Dance Troupe danced Sing a Folk Song to the Party. With the song Internationale,the Music Studio of the university brought us back to the past. Without the efforts and sacrifices of previous generations in the past century we wouldn’t have enjoyed freedom and a happy life. From the performance Chasing the Chinese Dream offered by the University Folk Music Society, the College of Economics and Management, and the College of Foreign Languages we felt again the tremendous changes in China during the last hundred years.   

When all the performances were over, the faculty and students finished making their gifts for the university. All the blessings were embodied in the calligraphy works, engravings and paintings. Meanwhile, congratulatory messages came from all over the country to the university. The event came to the end as the faculty and student sang together the song The Brightly-lit China.    

Delegates from Shanghai University of Sport and Shanghai Oceanic University also brought us a wonderful show to express their blessings to our university. The students from the Dance Troupe of Shanghai Oceanic University danced the dance The Newly-dressed West Lake. They presented the beauty of the West Lake and their youthfulness with body movements. The delegate from Shanghai University of Sport displayed their skills in rope jumping and performed Rhythm of Martial Arts to reveal the colorful life of modern university students, and their vigor and vitality. The patriotism of Chinese people and Chinese martial arts are virtually of the same origin.

Now we have been in the same boat for 70 years and we will go on to share the future. With the guidance of the concerned departments of the university, all the participants have been encouraged to exhaust their potentials. This celebration for the 70th anniversary of the founding of the university combined morality education, revolutionary education, traditional culture, and the disciplinary features into their performances and was highly acclaimed by the faculty and students.