CWU Launches Serial Activities in Summer

China Women's University (CWU) launched a series of activities during the summer vacation, aiming to consolidate students' ideological and political ideas, improve their practical abilities, and enhance their social responsibility.

Students who major in International Chinese Education made a trip to Tianjin from July 15-20 to visit Dagu Fort Ruins Museum, Beiping-Tianjin Campaign Memorial Hall, and the Memorial to Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao.

The students were touched by the great revolutionary friendship between Zhou Enlai and his wife Deng Yingchao, and studied the achievements and noble qualities of the proletarian revolutionist. 

The series of visits made students realize they are duty bound to maintain the unity of the state and ethnic solidarity, and strengthened their spirit of patriotism and sense of honor, organizers said.

Zhang Jie, deputy secretary of the general Party branch of the CWU's School of Culture and Communication, led some students from the Broadcasting and Hosting Department to visit Qiangdao, east China's Shandong Province, and participated in a public welfare activity named “Listening to Children's Songs”.

At the invitation of China Children and Teenagers' Fund, CWU students hosted the event and performed a children's drama Zootopia. They've carried forward the concept of public media, and showed the importance of art language in promoting teenager's healthy growth.  

Led by Cui Li, a teacher from the School of Culture and Communication, some 10 students participated in a travel activity with the theme "New Red Star Over China". CWU president Liu Liqun and vice-president Liu Meng also attended.

The activity was named after Red Star Over China, a book by Edgar Snow, a U.S. journalist known for his writing and articles on Communism in China and the Chinese Communist revolution.

The event aimed to remember and carry forward the country's national spirit by retracing the places that Snow visited during his time there.

Attendees also included some 130 teachers and students from 11 universities in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, and mainland China. As well as following the path of the Red Army's historical Long March they also visited several western Chinese cities including Zhengzhou, Xi'an, Yan'an, Tianshui, Lanzhou and Yinchuan.

The activity helped develop students' knowledge on the history of the Long March and the men and women who were responsible for the Chinese revolution. In addition, students learned from each other, built up understandings and friendships, and contributed to promoting the all-round development of cross-straits relations.

At the closing ceremony, CWU students performed several language programs and won high praise. Cui Yongyuan, a famous China Central Television (CCTV) host, took pictures with the students, and hoped that they could study hard, strive to improve their professional skills, and become qualified journalists in the future.

(Source: China Women's University/Translated and edited by Gender Study Network)