On September 11th, SMXMU’s 2016 MBA opening ceremony and high-end forum was solemnly held. The ceremony started with the solemn national anthem, followed by the welcome speech delivered by Prof. Wu Daguang, the vice president of XMU. In his speech, president Wu hoped the new MBA students should keep their peaceful mind and firm persistence during their studies and expressed his expectation that they should know more about the history of XMU and it’s way of becoming “The Strongest Academic Institute in the South”, and they should stick to XMU’s spirit, feeling proud of being one of its members. After that, Prof. Ye Jianming, the dean of School of Management spoke of the rich connotation of XMU by referring to its beautiful scenery and well-designed buildings and encouraged the new students to cultivate the personalities of honesty and simplicity as a XMU student and the team work spirit to cooperate and help others while achieving self-improvement. At last, Prof. Ye sincerely welcomed these 411 students to join the warm family of SMXMU. Qian Weihua, the representative of the new students, shared the reasons why he chose SMXMU’s MBA courses after acquiring the doctor degree abroad. He said, facing with the challenges of technical research and management work, he hoped to maximize his contribution to his employers and industry and fulfill his social responsibility by acquiring systematic knowledge and applying it to real practice.
Led by the vice president of MBA League and ministers of the departments, all the teachers and students sang the school song in chorus. After that, Prof. Dai Yiyi, the vice dean of SMXMU, announced the opening of the High-end Forum, a traditional section of SMXMU’s MBA opening ceremony. Wang Longchu, the director of Xiamen SASAC, the general secretary of the CPC party committee of Xiamen Xiangyu Group, and the adjunct professor of SMXMU, gave a creditable lecture to the 2016 new students, touching every audience with his persistence and dream. Mr. Wang took the office of the vice president of Xiangyu Group in 1996 after leaving Fujian provincial government. As one of the co-founders of Xiangyu Group, he led the Group from nothing to great prosperity and worked diligently in the past 20 years. The success of Xiangyu Group also enlightened the audience in several ways: first, the secret of success lies in the strong determination to achieve a mission, in this case, the profit-making goal of a state-owned enterprise, the developing strategy to build a platform-running company and the operation mechanism of marketization; second, the wisdom and power of a team should be activated--some key strategic decision were made under the wisdom of Xiangyu’s management team; third, always keep in mind the employees’ happiness and their sense of belonging; fourth, when planning future development, bravery is crucial, and only with the bravery to face difficulty could we realize larger value on big platforms. Mr. Wang attributed his acquisition of the new post in SASAC to his 20-year experience in Xiangyu Group. Mr. Wang’s sincere speech conveyed his expectation that students should grow with the enterprises and stick to their dreams. A burst of thunderous clapping came out of the audience in the end of the speech.
As another tradition of the ceremony, Prof. Zhu Shuiyong , from the Chinese Department of the School of Humanities, talked about XMU’s cultural personality, which was reflected by the great foresight and overwhelming bravery when the school-founder Tan Kah Kee founded the University, the history of Xiamen University’s reserving itself well when other universities were combining and changing names and the notion of Tan Kah Kee when building school. The students were proud of and deeply moved by the school motto of “Commitment to Excellence, Striving for Perfection”.
