Believe in the power of struggle
On September 11th, the “Youth Self-improvement Dream China” Chinese University Student Self-Strengthening Star Deeds Sharing Meeting and the 2019 Annual Visiting Ceremony of the Chinese University Student Self-Strengthening Star Event was held at Beijing Institute of Technology. This article is the speech of Yu Minhong at the event site.
I am very happy that New Oriental can sponsor the “Chinese University Students Self-improvement Star” search activity. At the beginning, we wanted to fund the poor college students, thought about various forms of funding, and even thought about finding some poor students, and they made the money every year.
Later, we found the leadership of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League. The leaders of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League suggested that we should fund the outstanding students of poverty, but we should not stop here. We should also find those who have the spirit of struggle and self-reliance among these students. While giving them financial support, we must let the outstanding representatives of these young Chinese college students lead the spiritual direction of Chinese college students, lead their struggles and lead their future.
Since 2007, New Oriental has started funding this event. Now seven years, we have been doing this. Each year, the self-improving star model, self-improvement star, self-improvement star nominee winner, and thousands of self-improvement star applicants, each has a very moving self-strength story.
The selected students, they can be representatives of the self-improvement star, but in fact, many students who have not been selected may have more touching stories than them, but we have not fully explored them.
All in all, being able to fund a self-strengthening star event is something that I am especially proud of.
All the way, I didn't have the concept of a great Chinese dream. I think that a Chinese dream should be that every individual's dream adds up to the wealth and strength of the country. This is the Chinese dream. I said that the Chinese dream is particularly simple. The first is to make every Chinese person full of dreams. Secondly, this dream must have a bottom line. The final result of your dream is good for you, but at the same time it must be good for this society and for this country. Putting these two together is good for yourself, good for others, good for the country, and it’s okay to make any dreams together. Your dream can be to build a space shuttle, or you can open a tofu shop and let the people eat steamy, full of flavored tofu. There is no difference in the dream. The dream is just that you make your life look forward to life and make you love what you do everyday. At the same time, let your own life develop. I think this is the essence of dreams. This is the real Chinese dream when our dreams of the Chinese people are combined and finally constitute the spirit, culture and strength of this country, which constitutes the future and prosperity of this country.
So I think that every country's dream, the idea of a Chinese dream can't be separated from any individual. I also started from an individual. At the beginning, I couldn’t do anything myself. Now I can not only support myself, support my family, but also support my parents. At the same time, New Oriental has more than 30,000 employees working in New Oriental, which means that more than 30,000 families have a peace. And a stable life. New Oriental has a particularly proud thing. For the entire twenty years, New Oriental did not have a one-day salary. Each of our classmates has their own touching story. I just touched the tears that I moved when I was talking about it. From the perspective of a lifetime, our hard work every day, the tenacity of each day, the abandonment of each day, and finally constitute the most wonderful picture of our lives.
In people's lives, we sometimes have the opportunity to change our own destiny. In the 30 years of reform and opening up, I am particularly grateful to China for having such a situation. I hope that the future situation will be even better. I hope that the economic development will be better, the political progress will be faster, the culture will be more open, and life will be more free. In this way, each of us has a better opportunity. Now all of our young people are facing the same opportunities. In the same opportunity, how do you achieve greater success and a better life, in fact, involves a personal topic.
So under the opportunity, the second topic I said is very simple, and the struggle must determine the direction of human destiny. I have one sentence: I want to believe in the power of struggle. I also went to college in the 1980s, and I also had a lot of classmates to start with me. Why can I make New Oriental later? It is certainly not that I am smarter than others. Even the facts have repeatedly proved that I am not smarter than others. For example, when I was in Peking University for five years, I spent an extra hour each other on average every day, but when I graduated from college, my grade was ranked fifth in the whole class. I did not learn from the genius of Peking University in the same period. But I have never given up. After I graduated from Peking University, I spent two years reciting the tens of thousands of entries in the Longman dictionary. Therefore, there is a breakthrough in the career. Nowadays, millions of college students all over the country are reciting and studying in my various vocabulary books. This is the result of hard work and learning from one point.
Just behind every story told by each classmate, a message is revealed: self-improvement. I don’t give up when I encounter any low in life. Like Zhang Dakui’s classmates, although he was disabled, he not only struggled, but also struggled to the doctor and struggled to the doctor of computer science. This is hard to imagine for normal people. So this is the most powerful force of life. Jing Yi, who did not come to the scene today, discovered cancer from high school. The stomach was completely removed and she had undergone six major operations. But the reason why she can live today, can still be alive today, still so strong. It has also been rated as a self-strengthening star model. I think this is a miracle of life. This miracle is not a miracle of the flesh, it is a miracle of the spirit. When you have a strong spiritual power, although it is impossible to live for a thousand years, 10,000 years, but when you have a spiritual miracle, life has an indefinite extension. The extension of life may be an extension of physical life. For example, Jing is easy to get cancer, and people who do not have spiritual strength in general have long been unable to continue. But the powerful spiritual power supported her to live to this day. Therefore, spiritual support may allow a person's body to continue to extend. But more importantly, they have reached a realm that is called spiritual immortality. It is because of this spiritual power that they will have touching stories. Their stories will be read by generations of young college students, and this spirit of fire will be passed on to everyone's heart, igniting the power of those who have no spirit. Let people who already have spiritual strength let them have more spiritual strength. This is a mutual encouragement.
When everyone was talking about it, I was thinking, I always felt that I was particularly bitter, and I still have to work 16 hours a day. After listening to the speeches of these students, I feel that I am not bitter at all. If I work an hour more every day, maybe I will be able to fund two or three hundred college students to study and let them realize their dreams in the future. This is what you helped me. In fact, I really do what I love. Behind this love is your support. So I would like to express my gratitude to the students! Thank you very much! Thank you!
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