On September 11, the opening ceremony for the graduate students of 2025 cohort was held at Puhe Campus of Liaoning University (LNU). Pan Yishan, Secretary of the University Party Committee, attended the ceremony and delivered a speech. Yu Miaojie, Deputy Secretary of the University Party Committee and President, also extended a warm welcome and sincere wishes to the students, while attending a training program for young and middle-aged officials at the Party School of the Central Committee of the CPC. University leaders Zhang Hongxin, Wang Peng, Qiu Huanguang, Yan Hai, Lu Hui, and Lu Anhui, as well as Standing Committee members of the University Party Committee Tong Yan and Wu Jilong, attended the ceremony.

 

The opening ceremony began with the solemn national anthem.

 

Pan Yishan delivered a speech titled Be the Problem-Solver Answering the Questions of Chinese Modernization, exploring with the students how to pursue a graduate life that is worthy of themselves and the era. He pointed out that talent is the most solid foundation for Chinese modernization. As the pinnacle of the national education system, graduate education is the apex for cultivating innovative talent. The quality of graduate training determines the academic heights of a university and the educational achievements and also profoundly impacts the process of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

In his hope, students will root themselves in ideological and political education, engaging in soul-shaping endeavors by attending well-grounded ideological and political courses, studying meaningful specialized courses, and making good use of dynamic comprehensive ideological and political education. In his vision, students will focus on the process, doing what is appropriate by strengthening professional accumulation, research training, and academic refinement through three stages: foundation building, tempering, and sublimation. In his outlook, students will align with key elements, concentrating efforts on enhancing abilities by taking notes, reading literature, and selecting real research topics. In his expectation, students will connect with the era, striving to make a difference by demonstrating responsibility, integrity, innovation, and diligence, bravely becoming who answer questions, stand firm at the forefront and “problem-solvers” who dare to explore.

 

Zhang Hongxin presided over the opening ceremony.

Wang Peng, Qiu Huanguang, Yan Hai, Lu Hui, and Lu Anhui attended the ceremony.

Jiang Yuan, a 2013 journalism graduate, spoke as a representative of alumni.

Li Yuwei from the School of Environment spoke as a representative of graduate supervisors.

Li Chenning, a 2023 doctoral student in inorganic chemistry from the College of Chemistry, Cheng Yuxuan, a 2025 Juris Master student (for Non-Law Graduates) from the Law School, and Li Bing, a 2025 doctoral student in the study of the sinicization of Marxism from the Marxism College, spoke as representatives of current graduate students, new master’s students, and new doctoral students, respectively.

Leaders from various graduate training units within the university, heads of functional departments and relevant institutes, faculty representatives, graduate counselors, and all graduate students attended the opening ceremony.