A Launching Ceremony Held for the Volunteers of the 4th China International Import Expo

On the afternoon of October 11, the mobilization ceremony for the volunteers of the 4th Import Expo was held in Conference Room 301 of the Academic Building on Pudong Campus. Weng Peifen, deputy Party Secretary of the university, Chen Shanshan, vice director of the Department of Student Affairs Division, Party Secretaries of all the colleges, secretaries of the Youth League of every college, and all the volunteers showed up in the launching ceremony. The ceremony was presided by Ma Guoxiang, secretary of the University Youth League and vice director of the Department of Student Affairs.

At the launch ceremony, all the attendees watched the video of the 3rd Import Expo. The volunteers nicknamed Small Leaves sang the song The Power of Youth created by themselves to show their great potentials and dedicated spirit. Along with Kang Hongxuan, leader of the  university volunteering team serving the 3rd China International Import Expo and deputy secretary of the Youth League of the College of Mathematics and Physics, Lu Ying, an outstanding volunteer of the 3rd Shanghai International Import Expo and one of the most distinguished Municipality-based volunteers for the year 2020 from the College of Economics and Management, was requested to speak. They shared their own experience as a team leader or a member of the volunteering team, recalling what they had seen and heard when they served the 3rd Expo. They encouraged the volunteers for this year to relay the torch and offer first-class service with enthusiasm to display the wonderfully youthful image of this university.

Ma Guoxiang elaborated the significance of the volunteering work and preparations for the 4th China International Import Expo. He stressed that at the request of the higher authorities, the Youth League of the university had worked out a plan for the volunteers of the 4th Expo and adopted some rigid measures to prevent and control against the Covid-19 Pandemic. The Youth League and all the Colleges of the university conducted an overall assessment and a strict selection of hundreds of applicants with their political awareness, volunteering experience, oral English proficiency, communicative skills and manners into consideration. Finally, 120 volunteers and 4 teachers to lead the teams stood out from the crowd. And then Chen Shanshan delivered the letters of appointment to the four teachers who were to lead the volunteers to serve the 4th Expo. The Party secretaries of all the colleges distributed gift bags containing some materials for the prevention and control of the Pandemic, creative cultural products and letters of appointment to the volunteers of volunteers etc. They urged that all the teachers and volunteers should bear in mind the instructions of the authorities, do their best to protect themselves from the Pandemic and strive to achieve new exploits during the Expo. All the volunteers followed Yang Yue, one of the four teachers and from the Youth League of this university,  to make a solemn vow. “We will stride and strive while in our youth. Let’s fight together for the Expo.” Xu Xiaotian, a teacher and secretary of the Youth League Committee of the College of Electronic and Information Engineering, and Zhang Yanjie, one of the four team leaders of the Expo and a teacher from the College of Electrical Engineering, shared their own understanding of the Expo. They couldn’t wait to start the volunteering work and they were confident to accomplish the missions as expected. To be the pride of and add splendor to the university, the city and the country, all the volunteers and the four teachers were prepared to plunge themselves into the volunteering work to offer the first-class service in high spirits and with great enthusiasm through the Expo.

 At the end of the ceremony, Weng presented a banner to the representative of volunteers and delivered a short speech. He claimed that it is President Xi Jinping that initiated the China Import Expo, which is a significant strategy to boost up the national economy. For “Small Leaves”,  volunteers of this university, it is a great honor to get themselves involved in it. So they must undertake the responsibilities to go all out to serve the visitors and guests. He said that the Expo is not only a platform provided for international trade and economic exchange, but a stage for young people to share their ideas and dreams of the future; What’s more, it is a good place for the volunteers of our university to display their images.  To help the volunteers and teachers accomplish the tasks while the prevention and control against the Pandemic has become a daily practice, Weng put forth four requirements to them as follows: Firstly, they should raise their political awareness and observe all the disciplines and principles. The university will back them up in all respects. All of them should bear the missions in mind and do their best through the Expo. Secondly, an enclosed style of management should be introduced and rigid precautions should be taken against the Pandemic. All the team members must act the instructions and take the overall situation into consideration. They must take the training session to prevent themselves from the Pandemic and acquire a good knowledge of the extra plans for emergencies. Only when they have the ability to keep themselves safe will the security of the university be guaranteed.  Thirdly, they should carry on the spirit of volunteers and show the youthfulness of the students from Shanghai University of Electric Power. All the volunteers are expected to display their friendliness, vigor and vitality, and confidence so that all the guests from home and abroad will be able to feel the youthful beauty of Shanghai. Fourthly, they should attach importance to publicity and promotion. They are encouraged to seize the opportunity to take up various challenges, undertake the missions and fulfill their responsibilities in the new era so that they will bloom like flowers on the march to build up a modern and socialist power.   

    Since 2018 China International Import Expo has been held every November in Shanghai. Every year the volunteers from this university offer good service to all the visitors and guests from all over the country and all over the world. In so doing, they not only display the essence of Shanghai Spirit, namely,  “Staying Tolerant, Seeking Excellence, Keeping Wise, and Remaining Modest” , but practice the university motto with actions. The volunteers from this university are believed to relay the torch and strive for more exploits. As members from Shanghai University of Electric Power, they are expected to make their contributions to ensuring the Expo of this year a secure, colorful and effective one.