Principal Jin Li's Message: Be an "Excellent and Interesting" Person, 118 Undergraduate New Students Come to Fudan to Receive Admission Notices New Students | Admission Notices | Fudan
"This admission letter can be preserved for thousands of years, I think it's amazing, like a cultural relic!" Li Kangxian, a 2023 physics freshman and graduate of Shanghai Middle School, rubbed the admission letter and sighed repeatedly. This morning, the issuance ceremony of the 2023 undergraduate admission notice for Fudan University was held at the Zhihe Hall in Guanghua Building. This year marks the 118th anniversary of the founding of Fudan University. 118 undergraduate students from provinces and cities such as Shanghai, Beijing, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangsu, Guangdong, and Shandong received admission notices on site, becoming the "new Fudan people" who have illuminated the century old starry sky.
"It is an important moment that will be remembered in one's life"
"I am very happy to come to Fudan with my parents and collect the admission letter on site. This is an extraordinary day in my life!" said Li Kangxian.
Today is also of great significance to Li Kangxian's mother. In 1992, she took the college entrance examination in Jiangxi and missed her first choice to apply for the Economics major at Fudan University; She graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1996 and applied again for the graduate program in economics at Fudan University, but still failed.
"I finally fulfilled my mother's dream of Fudan!" Li Kangxian said proudly. He has also been fond of Fudan University for a long time. "After the college entrance examination, filling out my preferences, as long as there is an option for Fudan University in all batches, my first choice is to apply to Fudan University." He has a strong interest in basic disciplines, especially knowing that Fudan's Physics Department has been established for 70 years and is one of the top majors in the country. In the end, he achieved his dream of studying physics at Fudan University through the Strong Foundation Program.
"This is a rare opportunity and an important moment that I will remember in my life." Huang Ruibin flew from Guangdong early yesterday morning and arrived in Shanghai alone. In preparation for the chemistry competition in his first year of high school, Huang Ruibin met Professor Sun Xingwen from the Department of Chemistry at Fudan University. Since then, he has firmly established his goal of studying chemistry. Now, he has successfully gone to Fudan to study chemistry through the Strong Foundation Plan.
Shi Xiuqi rushed from Beijing to Shanghai to witness the moment when his dream came true. Since middle school, she has been dreaming of being admitted to Fudan Basic Medical School. "I thought I didn't perform well in the college entrance examination, and I had no hope for Fudan anymore. I cried at home for a few days. Later, I found out that I had passed the Strong Foundation Plan and was admitted to the Basic Medicine major. I was so happy!"
"When I first met Fudan University, I spent my whole life there." Zhang Xinying, a 2023 foreign language recommended student and a graduate of Shanghai Foreign Studies University Affiliated Foreign Language School, once heard from her grandfather about the story of Xu Beihong and Fudan University. When she first met Fudan University as a child, she sighed with emotion, "This is the image of my dream university." Later, as she gradually got to know Fudan University, she was deeply attracted by its strong humanistic atmosphere. "From childhood to adulthood, entering Fudan University has been my dream that I have been striving for. Now, I have finally achieved my wish, how fortunate I am."
The 2023 undergraduate freshmen have welcomed a group of "05 generation". Interestingly, two of the new students who came to collect admission notices on site today were born on Fudan University's Centennial Day: May 27, 2005. At the age of 18, they met Fudan, who is 118 years old.
Ye Gongyan graduated from Shanghai High School and has always had a strong interest in science and engineering. He was admitted to the Technical Science Experimental Class through comprehensive evaluation. "I am delighted to become a new Fudan person and look forward to spending my birthday with Fudan on our school anniversary in the future."
Because her parents work at Fudan, another person named Ji Lechen, who shares the same birthday as Fudan, has been wandering around Guanghua Tower since childhood. Fudan is like an old friend to her. She has been steadfast in her goal of studying medicine since elementary school, and ultimately was admitted to the clinical medicine major through comprehensive evaluation. She stated that she will read literature during the summer to prepare for her studies, and also looks forward to listening to lectures from renowned doctors at Fudan University.
Principal: What to change, create, and even explore
Jin Li, President of Fudan University and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, encourages new students to move forward with the "first Fudan" and strive to find a field where they are willing to pursue and dedicate their lives. With interest and love, driven by curiosity and thirst for knowledge, they can change, create, and even explore something in their field; I hope that under the cultivation of Fudan University, everyone can become a well-rounded person with "national consciousness, humanistic sentiment, scientific spirit, professional competence, and international perspective", and become a new generation of Fudan people who can unite, serve happily, and be willing to sacrifice. With their own learning and abilities, they can connect the distant past and the distant but clear future; Be knowledgeable and determined, eager to ask questions and think closely, be outstanding and interesting, be able to change one's field, era, and benefit all humanity.
Accompanied by the melody of the school anthem, 118 new students took a group photo with the principal one by one on stage, receiving a special "admission gift". "My child aspires to study biology and is very excited to have the opportunity to take a photo with the principal," said Chen Zhifang, the mother of Zhang Zihan in the 2023 Natural Science Experimental Class. "For the child, this is a motivation for him to enter Fudan University and start a new stage in his life. For parents, we are very proud to witness this important moment for our child."
Gao Xiang, a professor from the School of Public Health and the author of the main body of the admission notice, introduced the relevant stories of the design and production of the new version of the undergraduate admission notice. The admission notice is based on the revived Kaihua paper of Fudan Science and Technology, which is thin and tough, with a storage life of over a thousand years. "I hope that after enrollment, everyone can fully utilize the interdisciplinary advantages of Fudan University, become a person with a broad interdisciplinary framework, a person with a soul that can think, and a person who can ask key questions."
