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标题：高校师生欢度国庆【图】 Universities mark country's special days
《高校师生欢度国庆【图】 Universities mark country's special days》

海城日报·SHINE报道 Shanghai universities are celebrating the 71st anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China and paying tribute to the deceased who made sacrifices for their country.At Fudan University, a flag-raising ceremony was held on Thursday morning, which also kicked off a National Day sports competition.Jiao Yang, Party secretary of the university, led other leaders and more than 200 representatives of faculty and students to attend the ceremony.After watching the national flag guards hoist the flag, they sang the patriotic song “Me and My Motherland.”The campuses of the university have been decorated with national flags and lanterns to celebrate National Day and the Mid-Autumn Festival.Celebrations were held on Thursday to celebrating the 71st anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China and pay tribute to the deceased who made sacrifices for their country.More than 3,000 students and teachers participate in a marathon on the National Day. At the Minhang campus of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, a marathon was held after a flag-raising ceremony.Lin Zhongqin, president of the university, took part together with more than 3,000 teachers and students.On Wednesday, an episode from a drama about the history of the university made its debut on its campus in Xuhui District at an event to commemorate martyrs who were also its alumni.The event was held in front of the tombs of Mu Hanxiang and Shi Xiaowen, two former Jiao Tong students arrested and killed by the Kuomintang.Shanghai Jiao Tong University staff commemorate martyr alumni. Mu, from Tianjin, joined the Communist Party of China in 1947 when he was 23, two years after he was admitted to the university to study telecommunication management. He was killed on May 20, 1949.He had said: “I would like to turn into soil, so that the suffering people can step on me towards the bright front.”Shi, a native of Changzhou in neighboring Jiangsu Province, became a chemistry major at the university in 1945 when he was 19. He was killed with Mu when he was just 23.In May 1950, Chen Yi, the then Shanghai mayor, wrote an inscription on their tombstone: “Sacrifice for the good of all the people is worth commemorating forever.”Representatives of teachers and students from Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance visited Longhua Martyr Cemetery and laid flowers in front of the tombs of their martyr alumni Zhou Baoxun, Lu Feixun and Huang Bingqian.     媒体链接                                   Universities mark country's special days