Sep.11, 2017
Source: News Center
Author: Li Weimiao, Nie Peiwen
Photos: Du Mingcan
Publisher: News Center

JNU welcomed 10,208 new students from over 50 countries and regions on Sept. 9 and held the 2017 opening ceremonies on its main, Shenzhen, Zhuhai and Panyu campuses. Undergraduate training camp also opened.

（The opening ceremony）
A total of 6,364 freshmen enrolled this year, of whom 4,472 are from mainland China and 1,892 from overseas. New postgraduates total 3,844, of whom 3,226 master’s degree candidates and 268 doctoral candidates are from mainland China, and 271 master’s candidates and 79 doctoral candidates are from overseas. In addition, 111 undergraduates are enrolled in the Joint Institution of JNU and Birmingham University; in every major, their lowest grades are all more than 50 points above the local college entrance examination scores.
At the opening ceremony, President Hu Jun expressed sincere welcome and congratulations to the 2017 freshmen on behalf of JNU’s faculty. He said JNU is one of the long-standing universities in Chinese history with the mission of spreading Chinese culture to the world. He also said he hoped those freshmen would inherit and carry forward the JNU spirit and contribute to building JNU into a first-class university.

（President Hu Jun speaking）

（Awarding of badges to freshmen representatives）
After the opening ceremony came the undergraduate freshman training camp. Hu introduced its program, purpose and significance. He also pointed out that in the last five years more than 30,000 JNU students started their university lives, changed their academic attitudes and fell in love with Jinan via the camp. The program, currently being optimized, is to be held by JNU’s five campuses at the same time as the ＂Freshmen Eve Gala＂ so that all teachers and students may enjoy and learn from it.

（Representatives being awarded badges at the freshman training camp）

（The warm atmosphere at the opening ceremony）