On May 18th, Lei Feng Square witnessed the grand opening ceremony of Lei Feng's statue of Shenyang Institute of Technology. At the invitation of the president, Xu Zunshan, deputy director of the Publicity Department of the CPC, Fushun and director of the Municipal Civilization Office, Li Qiang, deputy director of the Fushun Cultural Tourism Development Promotion Center and director of the Lei Feng Memorial Hall, Chen Xide, vice president of Fushun Vocational Technical Institute, vice president of the Lei Feng Academy, vice-chairman of the Ideological and Political Teaching and Research Association of Liaoning Province, attended this activity. The ceremony was chaired by Li Wenguo, vice secretary of Party committee and vice president of the Institute, along with more than 100 faculty members, including Wang Zhaobao, the board chairman, all school leaders, the backbone managerial staff and counselors. The proceeding began with speeches delivered by Chen Gang, SIT Secretary of the Party Committee and Chen Xide respectively.

The school board made the decision to place the statue at the new Lei Feng Square on campus to develop Lei Feng spirit, promote the cultivation of campus culture and actively fulfill the practical spirit of "Chasing for excellence, altruism and cooperation.", which could enhance the spirit perfectly and fully establish a People-Oriented Concept of Moral Education. Additionally, this will keep inspiring and encouraging all students to practice Socialist Core Value System.

In the address of Secretary Chen, he pointed that SIT has adhered to the concept of "Student-Centered Development"under the geography advantage. Besides, on the basis of the ideological and political education, the new focus is to cultivate an inimitable campus culture and to establish the base of ideological political education, with a focus on Lei Feng spirit. What's more, Chen emphasized the importance of humanistic quality-oriented education, which is the basic need of sustainable development, the important means of fostering humanistic accomplishment of colleges students, and one of the most effective points to enhance intelligent capacity.  Therefore, this will be an appropriate opportunity to implement the primary task of moral education by development of more qualified socialism constructor and successor.  

Chen Xide then presented it is the spirit that made ideological and political work of Shenyang Institute of Technology stylish--to popularize the campus culture and to cultivate students--which not only practices the spirit but also innovates such a situation being a pioneer of the times. That is fostered in accordance with the launch of imitating Lei Feng, and the exploration of moral education resources in the new ear interwove with the spirit.   The emergence of numerous good examples and excellent student's associations provide examples for learning the spirit of Lei Feng in Fushun, like Huang Chuanding, "national outstanding undergraduates of sacrificing himself for others", Lei Feng Trading Company, Hongzhi Promotion Society, Lei Feng Post.

All faculty always regard the promotion of Lei Feng's spirit as an important channel to practice the institute spirit. Gradually, the institute forms a unique education network through the interaction of classroom teaching, campus culture and social practice under the moral education. Further than that, it also signals a new situation in what has, until now, been a key element of campus culture, where everyone learns from Lei Feng and everyone imitates Lei Feng. The place of the status will surely call on more college students to learn and promote Lei Feng's spirit and practice the core values of socialism in the new era. It has the great significance for the average students to the completion of the status to cast their souls and cultivate noble ethics, which will be an encouragement for students of the realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

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Statue of Lei Feng: copper, 4.8 meters high, 1.6 meters wide, 2.8 meters long, with the life of Lei Feng on the back

The address of Chen Gang, SIT Secretary of the Party Committee

Li Wenguo to serve as a master of the ceremony, vice secretary of Party committee and vice president of SIT

The grand opening ceremony at 10 o’clock on May 18th

The status was unveiled by distinguished leaders and experts 1

The status was unveiled by distinguished leaders and experts 2

The pomp and circumstance of the ceremony