The fire of the 2010 Shenzhen Universiade is going to be collected on the Beijing University campus and starts the first relay on Tsinghua University campus. That is what Vice Chairperson of the Executive Committee and Director-general of the Executive Office Liang Daoxing and the full – time Deputy Director of the Executive Office Zhao Guanghua achieved with the help of the State Ministry of Education, after Liang and Zhao finished their trip to Beijing University and Tsinghua University from July 5 to 6.
The Universiade fire is to be collected on Beida campus initially, May 4, 2010
On July 5, led by Vice Chairperson of the Executive Committee and Director-general of the Executive Office of the Universiade Liang Daoxing, the working staff of the Executive office had preliminary communication with Beijing University on issues of fire collecting, by having conversations with Secretary of the school Party committee Zhang Yan, President Liu Wei, Secretary of the school Communist Youth League Committee Lu Chen, Secretary of the school sports department Party committee Zhang Rui, and Chief of the school sports department Liu Zheng in Beida. Both parties finally agreed, on May 4 of 2011, the 100 – day countdown of the Universiade, the fire collecting ceremony is going to be launched in Beijing University.
Liang Daoxing briefed the recent progress of the Universiade preparations. He said fire collecting is an important activity in the Universiade torch relay activities, and as well the most important ceremony before the opening of the Games. Every detail of the fire collecting ceremony is set to demonstrate the Universiade principles like youth, creativity, and fashion, and to spread out exploring spirit, global consciousness, awareness of environmental protection, and responsibility on both human beings and the substantial development of the mankind. All of these activities aim at promoting the education for all-around development in universities and increasing the pride of both the schools and the school students.
Leaders of Beijing University showed their welcome and expectation on the Universiade fire collecting ceremony to be launched on the Beida campus. They have arranged the school sports department to take the charge of cooperation with the Universiade Executive Office. Next, Beida is going to make an intensive study and deployment on how to hold the ceremony. They added, as the cradle of “May 4th” movement in the history of Chinese modern university education, Beijing University is a symbol of science, democracy, freedom and equality, which perfectly comply with the Universiade notions of “friendship, love, fairness, integrity, persistence, teamwork, uplifting, originality ”.
The first torch relay in Tsinghua University to celebrate the 100 anniversary
The next day, accompanied by officials of the State Ministry of Education, Liang Daoxing called at Tsinghua University, and had a talk with Secretary of the school Party committee Chen Xu, Secretary of the school Communist Youth League Committee Guo Yong, Deputy Secretary of the school Communist Youth League Committee Niu Ben, Chief of the school sports department Chen Weiqiang and Deputy Chief of school sports department Liu Bo, on choosing the Tsinghua University campus as the first stop of the Universiade torch relay in China.
Leaders of Tsinghua University extended their gratitude for the Universiade Organizing Committee’s selecting the school as the first stop of the nationwide torch relay. They hoped, to transfer the learning spirit of Tsinghua University years, they can well hold the torch relay activity on their campus next year when coincidently is the 100 anniversary of the university. The university leaders also noted, since the Universiade is a festival of the university students all over the world, the Universiade torch is supposed to be passed among young students. At the campaign, not only will they feel proud and honored, but also their mental outlooks and enterprising spirits can be exhibited in front of the whole world.
Later on, Secretary of the school Communist Youth League Committee Guo Yong showed the staff of the Executive Office Large – Scale Event Planning Department around the campus, and had an inspection on the previously decided routes for the torch relay. On the site afterwards, the Universiade Executive Office discussed in depth with some leaders of the State Ministry of Education such as department Chief Yang Guiren, Secretary – general Yang Liguo, Deputy Secretary – general Xue yanqing, Chief Lu Xun, on issues of the nationwide Universiade torch relay, including the torch relay routes on campuses, universities to be involved, and the methods of torch relay.
As China’s top universities, Beijing University and Tsinghua University will jointly hold the Universiade fire collecting ceremony and the first torch relay activity for the Universiade to be held in Shenzhen. Both of them expressed that the students of the universities are now looking forward to the Universiade fire collecting and torch relay, and they are longing for involving themselves in those activities, for they think they are as well the host of the 26th Universiade.