Soft rain saw off graduates with grace; Liaoning University’s love left its trace.
By Puhe River’s gleaming tide, tassels of mortarboards turned with pride.
On June 28, 2025, the 2025 Graduation & Diploma Awarding Ceremony of Liaoning University was held at Puhe Campus. Potential students from three campuses gathered together at Puhe Campus with laughter and dreams.
Pan Yishan, Party Secretary of Liaoning University and Yu Miaojie, Deputy Party Secretary and President attended the ceremony. They were joined by other university leaders, including Zhang Hongxin, Huo Chunhui, Wang Peng, Qiu Huanguang, Yan Hai, and Lu Hui, as well as Tong Yan and Wu Jilong, the Standing Committee members of the Party Committee. Chen Aixue, an alumna representative, was invited as a guest of honor. A 2001 graduate in Public Finance, Chen currently serves as a deputy to the 14th National People’s Congress (NPC) and dean of the School of Economics at Inner Mongolia Minzu University. Members of the University Degree Evaluation Committee, along with heads of academic departments, administrative offices were also in attendance.
Pan Yishan presenting diplomas to graduate representatives
Yu Miaojie delivered a speech at the graduation ceremony. Under the theme “How fortunate I am to be born in this special era”, he gave graduates six pieces of advice that would become “the Last Lesson” . He urged them to transcend the “small self” and embrace the greater whole. The real growth lies on integrating personal ideals with the nation’s development rather than solitary refinement or self-centered individualism. He encouraged graduates to hold steadfast faith, conviction and confidence. They should cherish personal bonds and nurture greater love, a genuine sentiment manifested in enduring devotion to the people, the nation and humanity, constituting a spiritual “homeland” more deeply rooted than any geographical coordinates. He expressed the hope that graduates would maintain attachment to their roots, cultivate national consciousness and extend their care to the shared destiny of humankind. It is important to pool small insights to forge grand strategies. Always keep an “empty-cup mindset,”, be willing to be a “beginner” and learn with humility as boundless as valleys.With a motto of learning through life and living to learn, he encouraged graduates to possess wisdom to cross boundaries, courage to innovate beyond conventions, and steadfast commitment to make improvement by harnessing technologies. Take small paths to behold grand prospects. Standing at the tide of humanity’s shared destiny, it is vital to see the true bearings in the coordinates of the era only by directing one’s gaze to the breadth of the world, the depth of history, and the horizon of the future. He urged graduates to develop forward-looking vision for strategic planning, international perspective for east-west mutual learning, and historical insight connecting past and present. Exercise prudence in small things to achieve greatness. Real self-discipline is not external constraint, but an inner relentless pursuit of excellence. He exhorted graduates to uphold integrity free from greed and arrogance, to cultivate self-awareness through constant introspection, and to demonstrate scholarly rigor in investigating things to extend knowledge. Mind minor details to illuminate great virtue. Through the consistent practice of attending to “minor details” in heart and manifesting them in action, one reveals that “great virtue” which stands upright between heaven and earth, thus transforming the ancient precept of “rectifying the mind with sincerity” into modern practice of “self-cultivation and harmonious living.” He exhorted graduates to respect the vulnerable to nurture benevolence, to revere rules to rectify conduct, and to shoulder responsibilities to achieve greatness.
Zhang Hongxin presiding over the graduation ceremony
Huo Chunhui announcing the list of postgraduate degree recipients of Liaoning University
Wang Peng’s presence at the graduation ceremony
Qiu Huanguang’s presence at the graduation ceremony
Yan Hai announcing the list of bachelor degree recipients of Liaoning University
Lu Hui’s presence at the graduation ceremony
Address by Chen Aixue, a distinguished alumna representative
Address by Wang Shaoyuan, a faculty representative, Ph.D supervisor and Director of Institute of Higher Education
Address by Du Chunqiu, a Ph.D graduate representative from Grade 2022, majoring in Ideological and Political Education of School of Marxism
Address by Zhang Kexin, a postgraduate graduate representative, from Grade 2022, majoring in Pharmaceutics of School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Address by Jin Yan, an undergraduate student representative from Grade 2021, majoring in International Chinese Language Education of the Institute of International Education
Prior to the ceremony, student representatives performed flash mob songs “Embarking” and “Shining”, recited the poem “Leaping into the Sea of People to Start Anew”, followed by an alumni message video.
The diploma awarding ceremony was held after the graduation ceremony. Members of the University Degree Evaluation Committee performed the tassel-turning ritual for graduate representatives.
On the eve of the graduation ceremony, the three campuses held the “Youth Pursuing Dreams, A Promising Future” themed graduation concert simultaneously.
Scholars in tassels, wings ready to fly,
Looking back, the path shines with pride,
Stepping forth, the world is boundless and bright .
Till seasons bring our reunion day,
May time in kindness gently sway,
May every scholar find their promising way.
Mountains stand tall where mentor trees grow wide,
Through endless years, school’s light still shines inside.
