席酉民校长圣诞暨新年寄语 Christmas and New Year Greetings from Professor Xi

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2015年对于西交利物浦大学（西浦）来说是极其丰富的一年。

这一年，我们挥手送别了近2000名毕业生奔赴全球开启他们的人生新阶段，又迎来了3000多名来自世界各地的新生融入西浦大家庭；

这一年，西交利物浦大学附属学校（西浦附校）正式挂牌成立，西浦的教育理念和探索将向基础教育领域延伸，以更全面实现西浦的教育梦；

这一年，西浦与苏州工业园区政府签订战略合作协议，正式成立了11个研究院、1个国际技术转移中心和1个国际创新港，初步形成了西浦开放式、国际化的研究创新群落，以实现资源整合、多方共赢、和谐发展；

这一年，西浦与更多企业和政府合作，一批研究基地和新的院、所、中心开始建设，如西浦吴江太湖新城研究院正式挂牌，西浦金融中心将进一步强化金融教育、研究和服务，西浦影视艺术学院正式启动筹办，开启西浦新领域；

这一年，万众期待的南校区在各方努力下已初具规模，为明年夏天正式投入使用、迎接众人逐步撩起面纱，等等。

即将跨入的2016年更值得期待，我们将在庆祝西浦成立十周年的过程中迈出更加坚实的步伐。

从当年“只有一栋楼的大学”到如今的楼宇林立，

从当初只有几十人的小团队发展成如今近千人的高水平教职工队伍，

从第一届抱着莫大的勇气进入西浦的160多名学生发展到2015年过10,000名注册学生和近8000在校生，

从质疑声不断到如今的万众信任。

在中国的高教发展史上，西浦可以说留下了浓墨重彩的一笔，我们当然可以为之骄傲，为我们的努力和智慧自豪。

圣诞、新年临近，中国人讲究辞旧迎新。这样的时刻，当然也是家人团聚感恩和共庆新年的时刻。

借此机会，我向全体师生员工送上最衷心的祝贺与最诚挚的感谢。祝贺大家过去一年取得的成就和收获的喜悦！

感谢大家对西浦的信任和信心加盟西浦；

感谢大家为西浦的发展所付出的努力、汗水和智慧；

感谢我们的学生在人生中的重要阶段选择了与西浦同行；

感谢我们的学生家长及社会各界对西浦长久的理解、关心和支持！

西浦一路走来，离不开这里面所有人的努力！

西浦已近十岁，会慢慢壮大和走向成熟，但我依然希望西浦保持初心，永远以“十岁”的探索精神，行进在未来前行的路上！

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An extract from Professor Xi's message. To read the full version, visit our website:

For each of us at XJTLU it has been a year of achievements...it’s in this year that we’ve seen an additional 3,000 fresh faces from across the world blend into our campus, while nearly 2,000 graduates went off on their way to a new stage of life...we’ve seen the launch of the Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Affiliated School... we’ve built a strategic partnership with the government of Suzhou Industrial Park [to] form an open and international innovation base bringing resources and contributing to win-win development...we’ve collaborated with companies and governments in building research bases, institutes and centers. Additionally, our highly anticipated South Campus has begun to grow and is expected to be put into use by next summer.

2016 will be another exciting year for us, because we will celebrate the 10th anniversary of our university. We deserve, after all this hard work and effort, to indulge ourselves in beautiful memories of the past and enchanting imaginations for the future, but we should seize the moment and prepare for the next stage. Ten years is such a short time, but what we have built during the last 10 years will not be short-lived. We have made our contribution to the development of higher education in China, and we are very proud of what we have tried and what we have achieved.

I’d like to take this moment to tell you how happy I am about the achievements all our students and staff members have made in the past year, and how grateful I am for what you have done for this university.

Thanks for your trust and belief in XJTLU...for your efforts and wisdom...to our students for sharing the most important part of their lives with XJTLU and for the understanding, concern and support from our students’ parents and other sectors of society. Without you, there’d be no XJTLU as it is today!

Ten years have passed and XJTLU will grow stronger and more mature.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.