On the bank of the Xiangjiang River, on the campus of Hunan University, Yuelu Academy is still full of songs after thousands of years.

  On September 17, 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping came here to investigate and investigate.

  "It was a drizzle that day, but the front of the academy was still full of students." Recalling the scene at that time, Yu Miaoyi, a master student at Yuelu Academy, still remembers it vividly.

  When I heard that General Secretary Xi Jinping was coming, teachers and students came from the laboratory, library, classroom, and dormitory one after another, and gathered on the front porch of the Hunan University Auditorium opposite Yuelu Academy. There were bursts of warm applause and cheers.

  General Secretary Xi Jinping said to the classmates with a smile: "It's a pleasure to meet you. It reminds me of the two sentences of Yuelu Academy, 'Only the Chu has talents, and the other is prosperous'."

  "Your age is right at the right time, 20 to 30 years old, our second hundred years to 2050, there are still 30 years, you should be the backbone of this era to take over the baton."

  Facing the students, General Secretary Xi Jinping said affectionately: "I hope that the students will live up to their youth, youth, and the times, cherish the time to study hard, master knowledge, and establish a correct world outlook, outlook on life, and values. The first button in life, walk the path of life well, and contribute wisdom and wisdom to the realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation."

  During this inspection, General Secretary Xi Jinping also walked into the ideological and political classroom, earnestly instructing the students to grow and become talents, and raising expectations for the students to inherit the excellent traditional Chinese culture.

  "To run ideological and political courses well is to think new and innovate in classroom teaching; to have deep feelings, and to cultivate a group of young people with family and country feelings. Ideological and political teaching should organically combine classroom teaching with practical teaching."

  "We must strengthen self-confidence in the road, theory, system, and culture. Among them, cultural self-confidence is a more basic, broader and deeper self-confidence. Contemporary students must further strengthen their cultural self-confidence in the process of inheriting the excellent traditional Chinese culture!"

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  General Secretary Xi Jinping listed well-known concepts such as "well-off" and "community with a shared future for mankind", and pointed out that these concepts are derived from cultural classics and originated from the excellent traditional Chinese culture; to teach students to take the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics, they must be deeply Deeply rooted in the fertile soil of China's culture, strengthen cultural self-confidence.

  "The encouragement of the general secretary has made me firm in my choice to stay in school for further study." said Lu Xiaocong, a 2021 Chinese Ph.D. candidate at Yuelu Academy, "I will continue to inherit the fine traditions of my predecessors in my future studies and research, and strive to excavate The unique ideological connotation in the excellent traditional Chinese culture connects one's destiny with the motherland and truly contributes to the development of the country."

  Chief planner: Fu Hua, Lv Yansong

  Director system: Zhang Sutang

  Planning: Sun Chengbin and Chen Erhou

  Producer: Zhao Cheng Liu Jie Sun Zhiping Li Jun Huo Xiaoguang Lai Xiangdong Fan Hua Qi Huijie

  Coordination: Li Zhongfa Wu Dan Huang Yue

  Text: Wang Peng Xie Ying

  Photography: Li Xueren

  Audio: Wu Weiling and Zhang Huan

  Visual: Bi Xiaoyang Li Jing

  Design: Jiao Xufeng Yin Zhe Lunma Development

  Coordinator: Hu Ruohan and Wang Xiaojiao

  Promotion: Li Ming Zhao Peng

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