On the morning of May 6, Youth League Committee of Departments directly under the Ministry of Education (MOE) convened to pass on, learn, and implement the spirit of the important speech delivered by General Secretary Xi Jinping on May Fourth. Excellent youth league committee leaders from departments directly under the MOE, May Fourth Red Flag Youth League, Advanced Groups and Individuals Involved in the Investigation Activities of Returning to the Countryside for Spring Festival, and “Rooted in the Grass-roots Level” photography competition award winners were commended and a series of activities entitled “Reading, Speaking and Writing”, by the youth league members from departments directly under the MOE, were launched. 

During this year’s May Fourth award ceremony, sponsored by the MOE, the OUC Youth League Committee again won the honorary title of May Fourth Red Flag Youth League of the MOE. Three youth were awarded the title of Excellent Youth League Leaders of the MOE. They are: Fan Rongrong, from the United Youth League of Teaching Affairs, School of Foreign Languages; Ye Chao, from the United Youth League of Administrative Affairs and the Library; and Wang Yue, from the United Youth League of the Audio/Visual Centre, Periodical House and the Chinese Language Centre. In this year's “Rooted in the Grass-roots Level” photography competition, the works sent by the OUC, “Morning Reading in the Flower Fragrance” by Mengjia and “Where There is a School, There is Hope” by Mei Nan, were both awarded first prize. Another work from Mengjia, “Aspiration for Knowledge” won second prize. Third prizes winners include: Lu Qian’s work “Learn in a Happy Way”, “I Love the Multimedia Classroom”, and Mengjia’s “Donation of Hope” and “Diligent Study and Hard Training”.

Mr. Zhang Shaogang, Vice President of the OUC, attended the conference on behalf of the Party committee authorities from the award-winning organizations, while Wang Shuo, Secretary of the OUC Youth League Committee, delivered a speech as a representative of the award winning May Fourth Youth Leagues.

Lv Yugang, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee directly under the MOE, attended the meeting and delivered a speech, in which he noted that the important speech made by the General Secretary Xi Jinping on May Fourth gives clear direction for the healthy growth of youth leaders. Youth league members should carefully study and put into practice the spirit of the speech, and take the initiative to fulfill the core values of socialism and clearly embody their generation's responsibility to support progress. The youth members should hold a firm faith, let it become a part of them, and put effort into carrying out these ideals; they should be solid in their work ethic, strictly follow the “three strict and three practical” requirements put forward by the General Secretary, paying attention to detail and results in their work, no matter how small something seems, working to overcome the “four unhealthy tendencies”. They should also have steadfast actions, study hard, dare to practice, and continuously improve their own qualities. Youth league organizations at all levels directly under the authority should deem it as an important political task to study and implement the important spirit of the General Secretary's “May Fourth” speech, elaborately organize study on it, solidly promote its implementation, and guide young cadres to integrate their thinking and actions into the important spirit of the General Secretary's “May Fourth” speech so as to contribute their youth and strength to educational reform and development.

In the meeting, the Youth League of Departments directly under the MOE launched a series of activities entitled “Reading, Speaking, and Writing” for Youth League members. Centred on the important May Fourth speech spirit and integrating the reality of the ideology of the youth with that of their work, a series of targeted and effective activities will be carried out by means of “Reading, Speaking, and Writing”, including the recommendation of books by leaders, each Youth League branch reading and discussing a book every month, book reading and comments, Youth Forum, Impromptu Speech Contest, classic articles reading, youth conversation by writing, lectures on official documents writing and research report writing, to enlighten thoughts, pool wisdom and improve the quality and ability of the youth; and to instruct the youth to improve self-confidence, confidence in the aspects of theory and policy in the socialism with the Chinese Characteristics and fight for the Chinese Dream of the rejuvenation of China. 

Presided over by Wang Jiaqin, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of the Departments directly under the MOE, and Secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission, the conference sees more than 140 attendees including leaders and youth members from the Youth League of the Departments directly under the MOE, and people taking charge of Party committees at the grass-roots level youth league organizations who have won the May Fourth Red Flag Youth League honorary titles.

By Wang Shuo, the OUC