In September of autumn, Liyuan was renewed, and the School of Civil and Transportation Engineering welcomed 592 new students. Among them, 182 are undergraduates, 321 are masters and 89 are PhD students, injecting brand-new vitality into the development of the college, and they will start a brand-new chapter of their life in the School of Civil and Transportation Engineering of SZU.

On the evening of September 3, the Opening Ceremony of the Class of 2025 of the School of Civil and Transportation Engineering of SZU was held in the Performing Arts Center of Yuehai Campus, where the teachers and students of the School gathered together to witness this solemn and warm moment. Leaders and guests attending the ceremony included all the leadership team of the college, assistant deans, heads of professional departments, representatives of teachers of various majors, class teachers of undergraduate freshmen, representatives of outstanding alumni, heads of the Secretariat of the Alumni Association, and all the teachers of the Academic Engineering Office. The ceremony was presided over by Chen Bixia, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of the College.

Chen Bixia, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, made an opening speech, warmly welcoming 592 new students to join the School of Civil and Transportation Engineering of SZU. She said, this September, the Chinese people's war of resistance against Japan and the world anti-fascist war victory ushered in the 80th anniversary, the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone also ushered in the 45th birthday. History and era converge here, glory and dreams blend here, the new students joined SZU at this time, which is even more significant.

As a symbol of the spirit of the college, the college emblem carries the honor and expectation of the college. When all the freshmen solemnly pinned the emblem on their chests, they officially became members of the family of the School of Civil and Transportation Engineering. From now on, their personal growth resonates with the development of the college. The whole audience applauded warmly to congratulate the new students for completing this identity change.

Academician Chen Xiangsheng, on behalf of the academy, warmly welcomed all the new students, expressed his sincere thanks to the parents for supporting the students' growth, and enthusiastically gave the “First Civic and Political Lesson” for the teachers and students present, which belongs to the people of Tujiaocai. Academician Chen Xiangsheng led the teachers and students to review the grand scene of the military parade commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, and encouraged the teachers and students of the academy to remember the history, defend the peace, take up the responsibility and serve the country with science and technology!

As the chief planner of the development of the college, Academician Chen Xiangsheng reviewed the history of the college, and condensed the advantages of specialties, teachers, platforms and nurturing; he also drew a grand blueprint for the development of the college with the goals of shaping the college's culture, innovating the teaching paradigm, attacking the national problems, and cultivating composite and excellent talents. Taking this opportunity, he sent a message to the new students: look to the future, think of the world, learn and exercise for life, and strive to grow into “big civil engineering +” intelligent composite talents with multidisciplinary cross background.

The college attaches great importance to the cultivation of undergraduates, upholds the educational concept of “three-round education”, and has carefully selected 11 professional teachers with excellent academic skills and strong sense of responsibility to serve as homeroom teachers for 8 undergraduate classes. Mr. Zuo Yingzhi, Secretary of the Party Committee of the College, awarded the certificates of appointment to the class teachers of the 2025 undergraduate classes.

In order to establish a sound mechanism of collaborative education, the College has employed 10 outstanding alumni as alumni career mentors for the 2025 undergraduates, to continuously empower the freshmen throughout their growth. Long Wujian, Executive Dean of the College, presented the appointment letters to the alumni career mentors.

Ms. Zhang Yuanyuan, the representative of outstanding young teachers of CEDC and assistant professor of Civil Engineering Department, spoke as the representative of teachers. She talked about her own interdisciplinary experience from the field of chemistry to civil engineering, vividly explaining the inclusiveness and frontiers of civil engineering discipline, and sent a message to the new students: not only can they deepen their specialties to become “civil engineers”, but also integrate diversified knowledge to become “pioneers” for the future, and grow up to be a healthy, honest and responsible person in

Shenzhen University Transportation Engineering Institute.

Feng Yun, an alumnus of Class 2000 of the College, now assistant president of Kingkey Real Estate and alumni mentor of International Engineering Innovation Class of 2024, made a speech. Taking the SZU Tujiaoche Running Group founded by himself as an example, he likened the path of life and career development to a marathon, which does not care about the speed of the moment but lies in the continuous self-construction, step by step, and steadily moving forward.

Deng Huidan, as the representative of 2025 Master of Management Science and Engineering freshmen, took the motto of “Ramming earth to build sincerity, sharpening wood to achieve perfection” as the guide, and combined with her own research competition and student work experience in the four years of undergraduate study at SZU, she shared her feelings of growth "Read yourself, transcend yourself, and enjoy yourself! He shared his feelings of “reading oneself, surpassing oneself, delighting oneself”.

This year is Shenzhen University to achieve the “14th Five-Year Plan” development goals, sprinting to be selected as a “double first-class” construction of the University of the “Battle of Pingjin” year, the School of Civil and Transportation Engineering, all teachers and students All the teachers and students of the School of Civil and Transportation Engineering are marching towards the new journey of peak discipline construction with a vigorous attitude. Once again, we warmly welcome the new students of the class of 2025! Thank you for choosing the School of Civil and Transportation Engineering of Shenzhen University! May you take youth as your pen and struggle as your ink, write your personal growth into the development history of the college, and draw your ideals and aspirations into the grand plan of the times!