Message from the Dean of the University Graduates: Do not become a maker of other people's suffering. Xu Yuanyuan | Suffering | Graduates
On the evening of June 16th, the School of Public Administration of Central South University announced the full text of the speech by Dean Xu Yuanyuan at the 2023 graduation and degree awarding ceremony.
In his view, the 2023 cohort is the most outstanding graduates of the School of Public Management since its establishment... Especially here, there are a large number of MPA students who have long been committed to grassroots work positions, made significant contributions to China's poverty alleviation and epidemic prevention, and will continue to make greater contributions to the great cause of rural revitalization and socialist modernization, as well as many graduates who will perform their duties in grassroots government departments, enterprises and institutions, and shine for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
"Students of the 2023 class have gone through all kinds of hardships and withstood all kinds of tests in the past three or four years. During the COVID-19, everyone felt that risks were everywhere. Passing by with strangers would also make you even stop working in your community and unit for more than two weeks, and your studies were blocked, your work was blocked, and your future was lost." Xu Yuanyuan said, sincerely hoping that you can stay away from suffering and move to the place of hope and ideal in the future. "But what I hope more is that we should neither enter the university of 'suffering' nor become the creators of others' 'suffering'; we should stay away from both ourselves and all possibilities of creating suffering."
Xu Yuanyuan finally expressed his hope that everyone is a normal and empathetic person. A woman who can feel her makeup collapse when her child dies is just a dignified mother; The man who can feel waiting for his daughter to come home at the subway entrance is just a heartbroken father. They are not all trying to increase traffic. What you need to give is sympathy, rather than blindly hiding behind the internet to create greater suffering. What you need to give is warmth, so that they can feel the brilliance of humanity and the hope of life when the world is difficult. I hope that everyone can become qualified citizens, fully enjoy the rights granted by the Party and the state in this era, assume their responsibilities and obligations, and continuously develop themselves while respecting the freedom and rights of others.
Full speech
