Inauguration ceremony for Shaanxi Elementary Education Resources Center of Research Development as well as Chong Yu Lou was held on the morning of July 10 in the Yanta Campus of SNNU.He Chongben, the professor of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, made a donation of 16,000,000 to building Chong Yu Lou. The leaders of the Party and the government attended this inauguration ceremony. They are: Yuan Chunqing, the governor Shaanxi Province; Zhu Jingzhi, the vice governor of Shaanxi Province; Guan Peijun, administrator of the Department of Normal of the Ministry of Education of the PRC; Mr. He Chongben and Mr. He Chongyuan; Zhuang Yongjie, the inspector of the Administrative Department of Shaanxi Province; Lv Mingkai, the vice administrator or of the Department of Education of Shaanxi Province; Zhang Baowen, the director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs of Shaanxi Province; Liu Lige, the chairwoman of the Women s Federation of Shaanxi Province; Jiang Xiule, the secretary of the Party committee of SNU; Fang Yu, the president of SNNU, and so on. More than 500 representatives of students and teachers also attended this ceremony.
Chong Yu Lou combines many functions such as training qualified personnel, scientific research, academic exchanges and teaching practice into one whole. After this inauguration ceremony, two centers, Shaanxi Elementary Education Resources Center of Research Development and Western Region Education Resources Center of SNNU of the Ministry of Education, will simultaneously move into the building of Chong Yu Lou, co-administering under a set of organizational structure.The main functions of the two centers embrace: undertaking the surveying for the requirements of construction of elementary education resources of our western region including Shaanxi Province, applied research and development of elementary education resources of western region, training of education of academic credentials and non-academic credentials based on application of resources, and providing the services of directions from experts.It is the constructive and expectant goal that the two centers will become the bases of research development and applied training of elementary education resources of Shaanxi Province and the whole western region through great efforts, relying on SNNU,positively integrating good resources of elementary education of outside and inside Shaanxi Province and home and abroad, researching and developing good resources in accord with the practical situations of elementary education of Shaanxi Province and the west region, and fully bringing the advantages of modern information technology into the practice. (trans.Tang Zhenna)