On the afternoon of March 29, the School of Foreign Languages successfully held the first multi-language recitation concert of "Ode to One Hundred Years of Beauty · Song of Righteous Youth" in Tsung-Dao Lee Library.

 

 

Xiao Guofang, vice president of the Trade Union of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, delivered the opening speech. He said that the School of Foreign Languages was privileged to produce a multi-language reading concert, a vivid illustration of its characteristic, and also a reflection of the wisdom and courage of SFL people. In recent years, the School of Foreign Languages has developed by leaps and bounds, especially in the field of discipline construction, and has made gratifying achievements. On the way to the university’s goal of becoming a "comprehensive, innovative and internationalized” world-class university, the people of SFL have been diligent and dedicated to their work. The construction of the first-class SFL cannot be separated from the construction of the first-class Trade Union. Trade unions should play an important role in ideological and political guidance, and do a good job in the unity project and the creativity project. Xiao Guofang wished the event a complete success.

 

 

The concert began with the chorus of "Never Forget the Original Aspiration" performed by the SFL’s faculty chorus. As the lyrics went, "Never forget the original aspiration, keep marching forward" , the song sang out the faith in the Party and the vow of remembering the original aspiration, and the heartfelt voice of "sticking to the original aspiration of education and bravely undertaking the mission of educating people".

 

 

Through the wonderful multi-language reading, the Japanese, German, French and Russian Trade Union Group of SFL presented the grand blueprint of the 20th National Congress of the Party, that was, the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation through Chinese modernization.

 

 

Teaching Department 2 of the College English Division recited the poem "Reading China" with great passion, expressing teachers and students’ deep love for their motherland.

 

 

8 female teachers from SFL’s dance team danced to the song "Our Life is Full of Sunshine", showing women college teachers’ youth and vitality. 

 

 

14 teachers from the Teaching Department 2 of the College English Division recited the poem "The Moon of the Xijiang River · Jinggangshan", singing high praise for the heroic fighting spirit of the Jinggangshan soldiers who held fast to the base, expressing their admiration for the revolutionary martyrs.

 

 

The stage play "The Never Dying Radiowave" performed by the Administrative Trade Union Group vividly reproduced the hard work and sacrifice of the Party’s sons and daughters who worked on the hidden front.

 

 

The Japanese, German, French and Russian Department Trade Union Group performed the recitation of the poems of the 24 solar Terms in multiple languages, and practised Tai chi, which gave the audience a glimpse of the profound traditional Chinese culture.

 

 

In addition, College English Division Trade Union Group and the Postgraduate College English Division vividly recreated classic works such as "To the Oak Tree", "Farewell to Cambridge", "Katyusha", "A Thousand Mountain and Water is Always Love" and performed "You Raise Me Up" and the English version of "The Same Song".

 

 

The event ended with the melodious singing of Friendship Forever. SFLers, who upheld the motto of “bridging the ancient and the modern, learning from China and western”, have learned from the past and present, making great strides in their development and having remarkable achievement. Through this event, the teachers and students of the SFL carried out more in-depth study of the spirit of the Party's 20th National Congress, which further enhanced SFL teachers and students’ patriotic feelings and sense of responsibility and boosted their cultural confidence, so that they could tell the Chinese stories to the world well.