Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 6th. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the State and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, sent a letter on the 6th to congratulate Xiamen University on its 100th anniversary, and extend warm congratulations and sincere greetings to all teachers, students and alumni at home and abroad .
In his congratulatory letter, Xi Jinping pointed out that Xiamen University is a university with a glorious tradition.
Over the past 100 years, the school has adhered to the ambition of the patriotic overseas Chinese leader Mr. Tan Kah Kee, formed an excellent school spirit of "patriotism, revolution, self-reliance, and science", created distinctive school characteristics, and cultivated a large number of outstanding talents to contribute to the prosperity of the country and the happiness of the people. The overseas spread of Chinese culture has made a positive contribution.
Xi Jinping emphasized that my country has embarked on a new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country.
It is hoped that Xiamen University will fully implement the party’s educational policy, earnestly implement the fundamental task of cultivating talents for the party and the country, advancing with the times to build a world-class university, and comprehensively improve the ability to serve regional development and national strategies, and to strengthen China National cohesion and centripetal force have made new and greater contributions to the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country and the realization of the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Xiamen University was founded in 1921 by the famous patriotic overseas Chinese leader Mr. Tan Kah Kee. It is the first university founded by an overseas Chinese in the history of modern Chinese education.
Over the past 100 years, the school has been adhering to the school motto of “Continuously Strive to Strengthen and End with the Best”, taking serving the country and serving the people as its own responsibility, and has successively trained more than 400,000 outstanding talents for the country, forming a distinctive school-running characteristic.