On April 28, 2019 track and field meet and the second sports culture and art festival of UJN were held at the sports venue in a warm atmosphere. School leaders Xu Jingyan, Zhang Shiqiang, Zhang Shuoqiu, Wang Zhi, Chen Yuehui, Cui Guilu, heads of all departments, athletic teams of faculty members and students from all schools, all athletes, referees, some representatives of faculty and students attended the opening ceremony. Deputy Secretary Zhang Shuoqiu presided over the ceremony.
In April, after the baptism of the spring rain, UJN takes a lively look with blooming flowers and lush grass. At 8 o'clock in the morning, the opening ceremony was held grandly. Along with the melody of Athletes Marche, youthful and energetic students from all schools marched into the venue. Their various performances displayed their positive values and taste. Then teams of faculty members walked through the rostrum with full spirit and enthusiasm showing their strong will and confidence to build a high-level university.
After the flag-raising and anthem-singing ceremony, Xu Jingyan, Secretary of the Party Committee of the UJN, announced the commencement of 2019 track and field meet and the second sports culture and art festival.
President Zhang Shiqiang delivered an opening remark. He pointed out that our country and the CPC have always attached great importance to sports. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized in the report of the 19th National Congress that it is necessary to extensively carry out national fitness activities and acceleratingly make China a great power in sports. In recent years, UJN has closely focused on the fundamental tasks of cultivating both characters and skills of the students, formulated and implemented regulations for sports tests according to “National standards for physical fitness and health”. Besides, it has also held sports culture and art festivals, organized a series of school-wide competitions in fields of aerobics, volleyball, tennis, football or basketball, as well as various fun activities. In the past year, teachers and students of our school have participated in 12 national and provincial track and field meet projects, and have repeatedly achieved good results in sports events such as the 14th Shandong Track and Field Games for College Students and 2018 National Tennis Invitational Tournament for College Students.
Moreover, Mr. Zhang stressed that doing sports lays an important foundation for a person’s development. It is irreplaceable in terms of improving individuals’ physical fitness and health condition, all-round development as well as spiritual and cultural life and stimulating teachers and students to pursue excellence and make breakthroughs. It is hoped that in the spirit of sports— to take part is what matters, teachers and students can take the opportunity of annual track and field meet and sports culture and art festivals to actively participate in the national fitness activities and endeavor to build an innovative, international and unique world-class university!
After the oath of referees and representatives of athletes, “vigorous aerobics” was performed by students, whose beautiful dresses, excellent performance, neat queues, and standardized movements embodied their spirit of hardworking and forging ahead and won rounds of applause and exciting cheers from the spectators.
After the opening ceremony, various competition events started. The athletes tried their best to make a breakthrough and presented a wonderful sports feast for the spectators on the spot.