(Correspondents: Lin Yuqi, Li Ziyu, and Wu Dandan)
To consolidate the School’s achievements in promoting high-quality employment and encourage graduates to serve at the community level and contribute to public well-being, the School of Management held a symposium on June 11 for students recruited through civil service examinations. The event, part of the “Looking Back and Looking Ahead” series for graduates, took place in the One-Stop Student Community in Teaching Support Building No. 7.
Participants included Li Zhixu, Deputy Secretary of the University Party Committee; Xu Kai, Deputy Director of the Student Affairs Department; Zuo Hui, Secretary of the School of Management Party Committee; Yan Huafei, Dean of the School; Luo Qiong, Deputy Secretary of the School’s Party Committee; community mentors; counselors for graduating students; and 20 representatives of the Class of 2026 who had secured civil service positions. The event was chaired by Luo Qiong.
Li extended warm congratulations to the 36 students from the School who had secured positions in public service and the five students selected for the University Student Volunteer Service Program for Western China. He recognized their achievements as the result of sustained effort and commended their aspiration to serve the people.
He subsequently delivered a presentation entitled “Serving at the Community Level and Advancing Public Well-Being: Adding the Most Meaningful Chapter to Youth Through Tangible Achievements.” Focusing on four areas—working for the public good, benefiting the people, making evidence-based decisions, and taking concrete action—Li drew on General Secretary Xi Jinping’s practices in establishing and upholding a sound view of performance while working in Hebei, Fujian, and Zhejiang.
Li encouraged the students to reflect deeply on their original motivation for entering public service and on the responsibilities and missions associated with their future positions. He guided them in considering for whom achievements should be pursued, what kinds of achievements should be pursued, and how such achievements should be attained, thereby establishing a firm ideological foundation for serving at the community level, acting pragmatically, and improving public well-being.
Li concluded by expressing three expectations for students preparing to work in towns, subdistricts, and other community-level positions. First, they should uphold public-mindedness and demonstrate loyalty, dedicating their youthful aspirations to the greater good. Second, they should take responsibility through practical action and fulfill their duties with commitment. Third, they should remain modest, preserve integrity, maintain clear ethical boundaries, and retain the selfless character of public servants.
During the symposium, the student representatives introduced the positions they would soon assume. The participants also studied Parts III and V of Excerpts from Xi Jinping’s Discourses on Establishing and Upholding a Sound View of Performance in their original form.
During the student-sharing session, Liu Jingfeng, who was admitted to Chongqing’s Selected Graduates Program; Liang Yuqing, who will join the Policy Research Office of the CPC Hanyang District Committee in Wuhan; and Wang Yipei, who will work at the Xishui County Tax Service of the State Taxation Administration, delivered remarks informed by Li’s presentation. They discussed their studies and lives at the University, the insights they had gained, and their determination to fulfill their future responsibilities.
The students expressed their gratitude for the attentive cultivation provided by the University and the School, the careful guidance of faculty members and administrators, and the support of their fellow students. They pledged to follow the teachings of their alma mater, demonstrate their original aspirations through concrete action, fulfill their responsibilities through steadfast effort, and repay the University through tangible achievements in their future positions.
The School carefully prepared three special graduation gifts for the students. The first was a book on China’s revolutionary history, Red Star Over China, intended to encourage them to carry forward the revolutionary legacy and draw strength for continued progress. The second was a letter entitled “Let Youth Shine Through Service to the People,” conveying the School’s hopes that graduates would serve at the community level and allow their youth to flourish. The third was a collection of appointment certificates for community mentors, designed to strengthen the educational team of the School’s One-Stop Student Community, improve its comprehensive “Four-All” education framework, and sustain its commitment to student development.
The event served simultaneously as a mobilization meeting for graduates embarking on a new journey, a forum for reviewing and sharing experience, and a practical educational activity.
Going forward, the School will continue to strengthen its educational initiatives, consolidate successful experience, and build platforms through which outstanding students and graduates can exchange insights and pass on their experience. It will guide graduates in maintaining firm ideals and convictions and undertaking the responsibilities of the times while encouraging more young people to serve on the front lines at the community level and write a meaningful chapter of youth through service to the people.
(Reviewed by Luo Qiong and Zuo Hui)
