The Unveiling Ceremony for the "Home-of-clouds Tower” Held Recently with the First Salon for Readers

Elegance is hidden in the pavilions and towers while fragrance is emitted from book pages. On October 12, the unveiling ceremony for the opening of the Home-of-clouds Tower was held on Yangpu campus. The Tower was named after Deng Yunxiang (home of clouds), a professor, folklorist and scholar of Redology from this university, which is a public cultural space and a home too for us to study Red History. Among the distinguished guests to start the ceremony there are: Zhang Hao, deputy director of the Department of Publicity of the Party Committee of Shanghai Education and Health Commission, Zhao Feng, vice general manager of the Sales Center of Xinhua Media Chain Co., Ltd. and GM of Shanghai Book City, Chen Guanning, a trustee of Shanghai Municipality-based Foundation for families of servicemen and martyrs and president of Red Star Painting and Calligraphy Academy, Weng Peifen, deputy secretary of the University Party committee, Zhao Jianming, a standing member of the University Party Committee and director of the Organization Department, and Shi Xiaohan, a standing member of the University Party Committee and director of the Party Committee Office. The ceremony was presided over by Zhang Xianzhi, a standing member of the Party Committee and director of the Department of Publicity affiliated to the University Party Committee.

Weng Peifen addressed his heartfelt gratitude to the Department of Publicity of the Party Committee affiliated to Shanghai Commission of Education and Health for their guidance and support, to Shanghai Xinhua Media Co., Ltd. for their staunch support and the active cooperation of all functional departments and colleges of this university. While building the “Home-of-clouds Tower we adhere to the principle establish an entitative space for readers and making reading a new fashion on campus. We stay committed to building a new cultural landmark on Yangpu campus so as to create a harmonious atmosphere and provide a public recreational place with elegance and refined taste for the faculty and students of this university. This turned over a new leaf in our efforts to build up a more intellectual campus. All the faculty and students, all the alumni and even people out of the university are welcome to the “Home-of-clouds Tower” to roam in the sea of books, seek truths, and enjoy every loving minute.  

Zhang Hao expressed his sincere congratulations on the completion of the “Home-of-clouds Tower”. He said that the campus studio for the faculty and students to read is a cultural community and an educational platform outside the class and a frontier to spread progressive ideas and advanced culture. It is the last mile to get through and an effective measure to promote campus culture. The Home-of-clouds Tower, as one of the physical book studios on the campuses of local universities, added splendor to the grandeur of colleges and universities in Shanghai with humanistic concern. It is hoped that the Home-of-clouds Tower will be a wonderful place for all.Zhao Feng said that Shanghai Xinhua Media Chain Co., Ltd. will continue to give staunch support to the ensuing operation and the construction of “Home-of-clouds Tower” and provide readers with more varieties of good books to meet the professional needs of teachers and student so that they can be fed better spiritually and use their expertise to make greater contributions to social development and economic growth.

Zhang Xianzhi pointed out that the establishment of the “Home-of-clouds Tower”, as one of the key projects of our university to serve the people and to educate Party history, is intended to build up a public recreational space on campus and a new platform for communication between teachers and students, and make reading a new fashion on campus. It is more than an endeavor to cultivate a Red garden where we know the laws and highlight the morality education by learning history and erect an innovative platform to train talents in all respects.

Among the participants in the opening ceremony there were reporters from Beijing and Shanghai media, managerial staffs of Shanghai Xinhua Chain Sales Center, executives of the functional departments of this university, Party secretaries of all the colleges and representatives of the faculty and students.

The ceremony was followed up with the first reading report in the“Home-of-clouds Tower”. Chen Guanning gave all the audience a lecture with the title They Died on the Threshold of the New Republic, especially for the faculty and students to encourage them to learning the centennial history of the Communist Party of China and carry on the revolutionary spirit. “Remember! The Party is your family and follow her toward Communism.” This was the last words dropped by Chen ErJin and Wang Manxia, Mr. Chen’s parents and two underground Party members, before leaving. After the founding of PRC, Chen Erjin and Wang Manxia were posthumously recognized as revolutionary martyrs by the Central People's Government with the certificates signed by Chairman Mao Zedong. In the lecture, Chen shared his parents' moving love story and their heroic exploits. He stressed that why now we have to review the glorious exploits of the martyrs and try to carry on their revolutionary spirit is that we must promote their undaunted dedicated spirit in the new era; only by acquiring skills for the construction of a modern socialist country will we be able to do our parts to pursue the Chinese Dream and realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

Zhao Zheng, deputy director of the Department of Publicity of the University Party Committee, said that Mr. Chen had shared us a wonderful and moving story, which was no other than a vivid ideological lesson and an immediate material for everyone to study the glorious history of our Party.

From now on the Home-of-clouds Tower will be a choice place for all to kill their leisure time on Yangpu campus. Looking out of the window, one can see the campus paths where people come and go. He can also feel the vigor and vitality away in the football court and tracks just an arrow’s. At this moment, it’s absolutely like in the heaven to choose a book, lean against a window or sit at a desk, slow down the pace of life and enjoy the marvelous inner tranquility.