This promotional video from Tsinghua University is going viral! What does it mean to be the first college student in your family?
Recently, a Tsinghua University admissions promotional video made many people cry.
does not sell beautiful characters of handsome men and beautiful women, and it does not even use the signature Xue Shen offensive.
On the stage of the Tsinghua University auditorium with a simple setting, the promotional video tells the story of a group of Tsinghua students, all of whom are the first college students in their families.
What does it mean to become the first university student in your family in China? In its 2019 promo video From One to Infinity, Tsinghua University answered this question by gathering its students who happened to be the first university student in their families. What does it mean to be the first in your family to go to college? In the 2019 promotional video, a group of Tsinghua University students who are the first in their families to be college students answered this question.
Some netizens said that while some promotional videos were still talking about beauties on campus and quiet times, this promotional video was already talking about Wuwen Xidong and the rushing river.
The video soon went viral. It was watched over 8 million times two days after being posted on Sina Weibo, China's Twitter-like social media. It's message was echoed by many netizens whose lives have been transformed by education. Many say they've been inspired. The video quickly went viral, with more than 8 million views on Sina Weibo two days after it was posted. This resonated with many netizens who had been educated to change their destiny, and many said they were inspired.
In the short film, Vice President of Tsinghua University Xue Qikun invited some Tsinghua students.
Xue Qikun is the first college student in his family.
Now, this post-60s generation is a top scientist, but at that time he was just a cowherd boy in Qilu.
Somehow, an academic career wasn't so smooth for Xue, the vice-president of Tsinghua University. He failed twice in his postgraduate entrance exam and spent seven years to get his doctorate. Over the past 20 years, he worked over 15 hours per day and finally discovered the quantum anomalyous Hall effect in a magnetic topological insulator, a Nobel-worthy scientific achievement. The path to study for this post-60s generation was not smooth either. Three years of postgraduate entrance exams and seven years of Ph.D. For more than 20 years, he worked 15 hours a day and finally led the team to take the lead in discovering the quantum anomalous Hall effect and achieved Nobel Prize-level scientific research results.
He never expected that he would become one of the youngest academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences at the age of 41.
Gathered by vice-president Xue Qikun, those Tsinghua students in the video varied from volunteer teachers in China's countryside to a basketball player on the school team, from an engineer participating in the Beidou Navigation Satellite System project who is keen on Chinese poetry, to an entrepreneur involved in developing artificial intelligence chips. Tsinghua Vice President Xue Qikun brought together a group of Tsinghua students. Some of them are rural teachers, some are basketball players on the school women's basketball team, some are Beidou satellite navigation system engineers who have won three consecutive poetry competitions, and some are entrepreneurs in the research and development of artificial intelligence chips.
Their lives seem to have no overlap, but their destinies are inadvertently connected.
But they are related by one identity as the first university student in their families.
Now you may think that it is not unusual for college students to grab a lot of them.
But in the 1990s when the college admission rate was only 5%, if any company could recruit a college student, it would be a good thing.
Until 1999, the country ushered in a major event in the history of education-the expansion of enrollment in colleges and universities.
In 1999, the country launched a strategic policy of higher education expansion to give more students the opportunity to receive higher education, meeting the needs of a growing number of high school graduates. (Xinhua) In 1999, China launched a strategic policy of higher education expansion, Give more students the opportunity to receive higher education.It meets the educational needs of the increasing number of high school graduates year by year.
Building schools, hiring professors and offering scholarships to underprivileged students, the Chinese government deployed many measures to expand college enrollment. (Xinhua) Building schools, hiring professors and offering scholarships to underprivileged students, the Chinese government deployed many measures to expand college enrollment.
That year, Chinese universities enrolled a total of 1.59 million college students, an increase of 47% over the previous year.
I think the most proud achievement of Chinese education is that countless families who have never graduated from college have become their first college students.
Today, more than 70% of college students are "first-generation college students." You can't imagine how much change this will bring to every family and the country. This "one" will burst out with infinite power. The comment area of
is even more touching than the original film:
In addition, I don’t know if you have noticed the BGM of this song.
"To be free and unafraid." Free and fearless. It also fits the temperament of Wuwenxidong at Tsinghua University.
This is the third time Shang Wenjie, a top student who graduated from Fudan University , has sang for China's top universities. In the 2016 Peking University promotional video "Starry Sky Diary", her little star chorus was really shocking.
On Zhihu, someone posted a question: How to evaluate Tsinghua University’s 2019 admissions promotional video "From One to Infinity".
@Ezawa Tami, a PhD candidate in the Department of Chemistry at Stanford University, said that this is the meaning of the Chinese Dream. We excerpted his answer:
This is the Chinese dream. What is the Chinese Dream in the minds of children? No matter your background, as long as you work hard, the top universities in the country will see you and give you the opportunity to get out of the mountains, out of the desert, out of poverty, and onto the stage.
In the article, he told the story of Amanda Te, a Cambodian girl he met in the United States. The following is part of her interview:
Like most Cambodians, I grew up in a donut shop.My family came to America with literally nothing . No belongings, no money. I had to grow up fast: early mornings, late nights, rude customers, no air conditioning, no wifi, 110 degree summers.
Like most Cambodians, I was in a donut shop grown up. When we came to the United States, we were almost broke. The family is living in poverty and has no money. I had to let myself grow up quickly, live like the stars, and face rude customers. There is no air conditioning, no internet, and it is over 40 degrees in the house in summer.
Honestly, I didn't think anything of it, it was life. A life my parents were teaching me to rise above and change with education.In high school, I became president of many clubs and graduated valedictorian.
Honestly, I I didn’t think much about my origins, it was just life. My parents told me to use education to change my destiny. In high school, I became president of the tennis club and graduated with honors.
My background only became an obstacle in college, when I learned how different I was from everyone else. Freshmen year, I thought I'd drop out because the heavy reality of being a low-income, first generation, Cambodian woman was no longer a title. But now I'm on my way to becoming one of the first female Cambodian software engineers. My background made it difficult for me in university, and I felt different from others. In my first year of college, as a first-generation Cambodian woman living in the United States with a low income, I almost dropped out of school. The reality was too heavy. But now, I have come out of the woods and become the first female software engineer in Cambodia.
I don't see people like me at Berkeley because there isn't a lot of us. I was given an amazing opportunity to create a future that I statistically shouldn't have, and it only takes one person to pave the way. There aren't many people like me in Berkeley. I was given this tiny, amazing opportunity to create my own future. Such a change only needs to start with one person.
Note: Berkley refers to the University of California, Berkeley, a prestigious school in the United States.
Currently, 17% of Berkeley students are first-generation college students, but in China the figure is 70%, and most of them have a harder time than Amanda. Many people are talking about the American Dream, but we need the Chinese Dream even more. Children from poor families, as long as you are a nugget of gold, there will be a place for you to shine. Three of my classmates in high school came from poor villages in national-level poverty-stricken counties. However, they not only entered good majors in good schools (Tsinghua University Electronic Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and Central Finance Accounting), but they also received state funding to complete their studies and find a job. A good job.
Of course, I hope there will be more Tsinghua universities in China to cultivate more talents and give more people the opportunity to show their potential. I don’t want us to have only one Tsinghua University. As for fifty or a hundred, the more, the better.
As Vice President Xue Qikun said in the video:
As the first college student in our family, we had difficulty integrating into campus life, were in trouble academically, and were hesitant about our future choices. But each of us is the first in every family and ourselves. These countless ones give birth to the infinite hope of our China. The "one" of
seems ordinary, but all futures and hopes also start from this "one".
Editor: Li Xueqing
Source: China Daily
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