A grand celebration was held at the auditorium on Xuhui Campus ECUST from 2 o clock in the afternoon of 10th September, 2010. Decorated with colorful flowers, the auditorium was fully occupied with students and faculties, with party and administrative leaders at the university level, leaders of secondary school level, outstanding young faculty members and students gathering there. They gathered there to celebrate teacher s festival Teacher s Day. The grand celebration was hosted by Shen Wei, Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Committee of ECUST.
It is the 26th Teacher's Day since its establishment in China and also the first since the promulgation of National Mid and Long-Term Program of Reform and Development (2010-2020) . Great achievements have been made in areas like the education and teaching, scientific research and management, industrial and logistic support in our school which can be proven by over 170 Awards and Honors of all kinds and at all levels.
At the celebration meeting, Vice-President Ma Yu-Lu announced the honor list of teachers who have received Awards for Recognition at the provincial or national level. And Shen Wei, Deputy Secretary of Chinese Communist Party Committee of ECUST, announced the decision of recognition for those excellent full-time and part-time ideological and political education tutors who help the young students politically and ideologically.
Those who won awards were congratulated with great applause from all participants of the celebration meeting.
President Qian Xu-Hong delivered a keynote speech themed as Students-Concerned, Quality- Oriented, Enhancement of the Spirit of School and Teaching, Improvement of the Style of Study and Examing , focusing on the major problems faced and the corresponding countermeasures in educating people around the school and in improving the quality of education and teaching.
SHEN Wei-Guo, Secretary of Chinese Communist Party Committee of ECUST, made a summary speech of the meeting, hoping that all faculty of ECUST will enhance the learning of professional ideals and ethics and self-education, and that they will truly foster the educational concept of People--Oriented Education , and that they will bear in mind their educating duty as shown in the motto - Successful Education Programs Lie in Conscientious Teachers .
On behalf of all students of ECUST, Hang Tianqi, a student representative from Class 084, Mechanical College, made an address at the meeting, expressing the holiday greetings to all faculties. Li Bing and Lin Mei, two teacher representatives, also made remarks at the meeting, exchanging their experiences and feelings in their teaching and educating career.