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--- Macau University of Science and Technology Held Opening Ceremony for the New Academic Year

Macau University of Science and Technology held the 2014/2015 Opening Ceremony at 11.00 am in Block J, the Gymnasium of the University on September 13 (Saturday). More than 2000 teachers and students attended the grand ceremony. In the ceremony, seven faculties/college/school conferred the Dean’s List Scholarships on their students, and the university also conferred four University Awards, including the Outstanding Award of Health & Sports, the Outstanding Award of Social Services, and the Outstanding Award of Culture & Scholarship; also conferred were the Bank of China Research Award and the Teaching Excellence Awards.
The quality of the new students of MUST for this academic year has improved significantly; this has demonstrated that the social communities have given recognitions to MUST’s teaching, academic and research performances. In the new academic year, MUST. will continue to base itself on teaching and research, take in more intellects and talents, seize tight two keys, “quality” and “innovation”, continue to develop excellent quality education and outstanding research, and serve the Macau community. The University has also welcomed 40 new teaching and research staff and has invited renowned experts and scholars to join the university’s teaching and research force, aiming to greatly advance the university’s development in teaching and research.
In his speech for the Opening Ceremony, President Chair Professor Liu Liang noted that in its truest nature, the history of human civilization is itself a history of integration of science and technology and human spirits. Human spirits center on the concern for the meaning and value of life, promote benevolent compassions for mankind, and pursue the ultimate truth and beauty of life. He advised the students to set as their goal to take up their commitments, cultivate their study with diligence, set good moral examples, and improve themselves, to use this goal to measure their studies and personal conduct, and to incorporate their personal dreams into the development of the societal civilization; he reminded the students to bind and shape themselves with noble moral standards and life values while they are aspiring high and perfecting their academic studies with hard work, to ascend the highest grounds where the ultimate truth and beauty resides, to act on the ancient wisdom words of “when you see men [sic] of worth, you should think of equaling them; when you see men of a contrary character, you should turn inwards and examine yourselves”, and to make themselves a person with both professional knowledge and human qualities because only people of this type are talents in the real sense and only this will enable them to create an extraordinary life out of their daily practices of serving the community; he requested the students to stick to the core values of the society, uphold the attitude of “modesty and honesty” in being a person, keep a mind that is as broad and accommodating as “the sea that accommodates all rivers” in judging a person, understand the rules of “accommodating differences, seeking similarities while keeping differences”, adopt the “peaceful, rational, mature, and responsible” way in conducting things, and apply their accumulated professional knowledge and moral qualities to help advance the development of societal civilization and make themselves a major contributor to the era.
The teacher representative then advised the students to set up goals, take actions, and live a fulfilling, unregretful, and meaningful life at MUST. Afterwards, two representatives of the new students expressed their expectations of and goals for their university life; the alumni representative expressed good wishes to the new students. In the end, the teachers and students sang the university anthem, and the opening ceremony ended successfully in a cheerful tone.

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Opening Ceremony of Academic Year 2014/2015

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President, Chair Professor Liu Liang delivered the speech

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Mr. Jiang Wei Kui, Assistant Manager of Bank of China Macau Branch presented the BOC Research Excellence Award.

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Ms. LI Shan Shan spoke on behalf of all the Graduate freshmen