On the morning of May 19th, Nankai Foreign Language Alumni Association held an exhibition to display the photography pieces from our alumni Gao Qiufu, Lan Hongguang, Rao Aimin and the badges from Luo Chengjian in the College of Foreign Languages. Our alumni from Beijing, Tianjin and other places and some teachers and students attended the opening ceremony.
Present at the opening ceremony were Zou Yujie, Party Committee Secretary of CFL, Yan Guodong, Dean of CFL, Ma Hongqi, vice dean of CFL, Liu Guimin and Shi Yunyan, professors from the Japanese Department, Gu Hengdong, professor from the Russian Department, and Zhang Guizhen, professor from the German Department.
Present at the opening ceremony were Zhao Wei, president of Nankai Foreign Language Alumni Association, Xu Chaoyou, president of Beijing Branch of Nankai Foreign Language Alumni Association, Cai Yintong, general secretary, Fan Xihe, president of Tianjin Branch, and other alumni.
The forum and opening ceremony were presided over by Ma Hongqi and Zhao Wei.
Yan Guodong delivered a warm speech on behalf of the College of Foreign Languages. He highly praised the four alumni for caring about the development of the college. Holding an exhibition of the photography pieces and badges on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Nankai University was really memorable to our alumni, CFL, and Nankai University.
Our alumni Lan Hongguang, who was admitted into the Japanese Department in 1981, and Rao Aimin, who was admitted into the Russian Department in 1988, delivered their speeches. They said that they were really excited to come back to Nankai University, which they had missed so much! Although they had graduated for many many years, Nankai University as well as the College of Foreign Languages had always been their spiritual home and they were pround of being NKUers! They added, “over the past years, we have worked for the Xinhua News Agency as photojournalists. We have always kept pace with the outside world and recorded the great changes. Our job is ordinary, but it is also great because we are able to know what is happening in China, why China has made so many achievements in the past 40 years, and what we can do to better China’s future. As NKUers, we are pround to see all the great changes and we believe that the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is an irresistible historical trend! So on the occasion of the 100th anniversary, we are holding such an exhibition to inspire our young college students to work hard for our country.
The photography exhibition displayed three photos of Premier Zhou Enlai in the classroom of the CFL provided by Gao Qiufu, who was admitted into the English Department in 1958, was vice president of Xinhua News Agency. These three photos were taken when Premier Zhou came to Nankai University on May 28, 1959 at its 60th birthday.
The badge exhibition displayed over 100 delicate badges made by Luo Chengjian, who was admitted to the Translation Department in 2014. Some of the badges were designed for Nankai University and some of them were national badges of different countries, which had attracted our teachers and students. He promised that he would like to design more beautiful commemorative badges for the centennial celebration and donated them to NKU as gifts.
