CWU Leaders Take Trip to Cities, Historic Sites in W China

Accompanied by some 10 teachers from China Women's University (CWU), Liu Liqun, CWU's president participated in a travel activity on the theme of "New Red Star Over China", which launched on August 28.  

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 the mainland of China. As well as following the path of the Red Army's historical Long March they visited also several west China 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.

To mark the 80th anniversary of Snow's first visit to the Shanxi-Gansu-Ningxia revolutionary region, the event was co-sponsored by the National Institute of Strategic Communication at Peking University, Tsinghua University, Hong Kong Baptist University, and some other 40 universities in China.

During the activity, Liu also visited Lanzhou Jiaotong University (LZJTU), and exchanged opinions with LZJTU's president on the school-running characteristics, talent cultivation strategy, and the situation of enrollment and employment.

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