席酉民校长圣诞暨新年贺辞 Christmas and New Year greetings from Professor Xi

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各位老师、同事、同学们、朋友们：

大家好！

又到年末，我们即将迎接新的一年。尽管今年的冬天被各级媒体一直喻为“十年内史上最冷冬天”，然而阵阵寒潮还是无法阻挡大家喜迎圣诞与新年的热情。

今年，西浦隆重庆祝了自己的十岁生日，回顾了十年发展的点点滴滴，遐想着令人向往的未来。在这个独特的年份，在中国人总是用来辞旧迎新的时刻，似乎很适合我们一道与“旧”话别，亲吻“新”的未来。

十年，西浦从嗷嗷坠地的婴儿已成长为受学生选择、受家长爱戴、受同行尊重、受社会各界关注和期待的国际大学；其快速和健康的发展过程令世人惊奇，很多同行和学者纷沓而至探究其中的奥秘。

此时此刻，我要再次衷心感谢西浦人——老师、员工、同学、校友、校外导师的辛勤和智慧贡献，感谢西浦朋友——家长、合作者、社会各界关心和支持西浦发展的人，感谢各级政府和领导们以及董事会对西浦的指导和大力支持！

不难预见，西浦的知名度和规模将稳步提升：更多更高水平的国内外学者和学生将持续加盟西浦，西浦教育模式将不断深化、完善和广泛传播，更多更高水平的研究将不断涌现，各系院、研究院、研究中心等在国际舞台上的影响会日益强健，国际合作及与社会各界互动将进一步深化，现代化和独具特色的校园将随着南校区国际商学院、影视学院和室内体育馆的落成将全面竣工……。

当西浦人以其智慧和努力在短短的时间里塑造了一所符合未来发展趋势和需要的新型教育模式、新型大学运行体系、新型大学以及新型大学与社会互动关系，并以此成就影响中国高等教育改革和世界教育发展的时刻，我们意识到，在传统的基于专业的精英教育领域，西浦已以其独特探索而领风骚。

但深入观察社会发展脉络及其对未来人才的需求，不难发现，人类将迎来很多新的行业发展，社会也需要更多能够跨越专业的创业型高端人才，而当下的育人哲学和体系还不足以培养这类人才，也没有给予学生根据自己未来定位开展学习的更多可选择途径。

为了适应这种需要，西浦在未来几年将在现在育人体系的基础上，开启一项新的教育探索，即强化跨专业（或行业）训练，并将其延伸到与企业合作开展在职的创业和管理训练，发展出一种新型综合性高端应用人才的培养模式，给学生更多的选择机会！

为了使这两种培养模式不断深化和相得益彰，“研究导向”不仅是我们愿景的不可分割的核心要素，而且“研究导向型”教学、学习和工作必然成为西浦不二的战略措施选择。

在新的一年里，我们要发动教职员工和学生深入研究，如何使“研究导向”更深地根植于西浦的实践，成为西浦的基因。

教育变革机会千载难逢，面对世界跨国教育（TNE）的热潮，十年的西浦已奠定再上一个台阶的基础。在很多传统高校依然难以摆脱许多束缚的情况下，我衷心希望，开拓创新的西浦可以成为冬日里的暖阳，助推中国高等教育改革和世界高等教育发展的春暖花开！

最后，祝福大家，圣诞与新年快乐！

An extract from Professor Xi's message.

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It's the end of the year once again and we'll soon be welcoming in a new year. Though the media has called this winter "the coldest of the last decade", the plummeting temperatures have done nothing to dampen people's enthusiasm for Christmas and the New Year.

This year, XJTLU celebrated its 10th anniversary and we took a close look at our growth over the last 10 years, which also made us look to the future. During this special year, at a time that Chinese people often use to ring out the old and ring in the new, it's appropriate that we say goodbye to the "old" and say hello to a "new" future.

Over 10 years, XJTLU has grown from a newly born, small college into an international university that is favoured by students, beloved by parents, respected by peers, and closely followed by society.

Its rapid, healthy development has been astonishing and many peers and academics have been lining up to discover our secret!

At this moment, I would like to once more express my heartfelt gratitude to all people at XJTLU - to the teachers, administrative members of staff, students, alumni, and external mentors - for their hard work and contribution, and to the friends of XJTLU - parents, partners, and people throughout society - who have cared about and supported the development of XJTLU.

I would also like to thank the government and officials at various levels, as well as the University’s board members, for their guidance and tremendous support.In my Teachers’ Day message, I talked about "starting from zero" to re-establish XJTLU. During the first year of XJTLU's next decade of growth, or even beyond, all of us need to be looking forward!

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