On the afternoon of March 5th, a grand opening ceremony for the 2015 session of on-the-job graduate students kicked off at the lecture hall of the Science and Art Center. Mr. Lai Kaihong, Deputy Party Secretary and Secretary of the University Commission for Discipline Inspection，directors of relative departments, heads of relative schools and graduate schools, secretary for graduate students and all 2015 session of on-the-job graduate students attended the ceremony chaired by Mr. Tao Tao, executive dean of the Graduate School.

The opening ceremony started with the national anthem of China. Mr. Lai delivered a sincere congratulation and warm welcome to all students, and introduced to them the development history of Xiamen University as well as the remarkable achievements made in graduate education, especially in on-the-job graduate education. Xiamen University has a long history with year 2016 marks the 95th anniversary of it and the 30th anniversary of the Graduate School. It is among the universities which first recruited and trained MBA and EMBA students and one of the pilot universities for MPAcc education. In recent years, making full use of its traditional advantages, Xiamen University has trained a large number of high level applied talents for the society, greatly improved the quality of on-the-job graduate education. In 2014, Zhang Yuhui, a postgraduate student with a professional degree of arts, won the only gold medal of lacquer painting in the National Fine Arts Exhibition with her work named. Mr. Lai shared with students the Four Spirits of Xiamen University which has been inspiring generations of members of Xiamen University to strive hard and fulfill their dreams. It has been the value orientation and internal impetus of people of XMU. He expressed his sincere hope that all freshmen will inherit and develop the Four Spirits to mold themselves into confident and decent members of XMU. He also encouraged them to stick to their academic dreams, to set up lofty aspirations and to bear in mind need of the times, constantly polishing and improving themselves to become beautiful scenery of XMU.

Xiahou Jianbing, associate professor of Software School, supervisor representative and director of Students’ Affairs Office, first expressed his gratitude for choosing XMU. With vivid examples, he shared with freshmen some advices about how to spend the following time in XMU. He said, since you have chosen to work on your graduate degrees, you should make a plan and be willing to sacrifice for it. While pursuing academic dreams, being a decent person is also important. You should focus on cultivating scientific spirit, setting up scientific mindset and good academic manner and professional ethics. All freshmen are also expected to work hard, not afraid of hardship and tiredness and transform what they have learnt into the driving force in work.

The sophomore representative is a 2014 session of on- the-job graduate student from the School of Public Affairs, Nong Jiasong. Starting from his personal experiences, he exchanged his feelings about studying and living in XMU with all freshmen. He said that continuing on study can make us happy. It can both enrich our spiritual life as well as improving our working condition. He also shared with them three realms of studying. He encouraged them to keep their enthusiasm for studying and utilize this precious opportunity to understand the world and try to change it for a better one.

The freshman representative is Liu Lianqing, a 2015 session of on-the-job postgraduate student of accounting in School of Management. She said in her speech that, as an on-the-job graduate student, getting an opportunity to get back to school is all the more precious after years of struggling in society. We should cherish our time in school and turn it into the most valuable assets. Under the guidance of teachers, we should work hard and strive for our dreams.

After the ceremony, professor He Lixin, vice-dean of School of Law, delivered the first class on building scholarship integrity among on-the-job graduate students. She further explained the multiple value and the unique foundation of integrity from five dimensions, such as Ethics, Economics and Law, thoroughly analyzed current problems and their roots existing in graduate scholarship integrity and shared systems of integrity management in foreign universities. She also talked about problem cases about graduate scholarship integrity and encouraged them to learn a lesson, to strengthen self-discipline in scholarship ethics, to abide by standards and to set up correct and honest academic view.