I was October 3, 2009 arrived at the University of Cambridge, the University of Cambridge gives the first impression is very beautiful, and the United States as if fairy-tale world in general. Medieval architecture retained so far, but not be regarded as cultural relics deliberately protection, are still being used for student learning and life. University of Cambridge in 2009 exactly 800 school anniversary celebrations one after another, I was able to visit during this period to the Cambridge study, Gongfengqisheng is indeed a very lucky thing.
To be honest, arrived in Cambridge two months, I was busy every day to school and participate in various lectures and symposia, yet there is no time for in-depth insights, but there is a feeling is so strong, when I arrived the first day of enough left me deep impression, that is: here is the Chinese people too much.
I was on a flight to the UK, there are four people to Cambridge to study (including me), other than the NPC, and the other three people are a graduate of Beijing University.
To Cambridge, I had just arrived on the bus system here is not familiar with, but looking ahead, the car full of Chinese faces, in Mandarin can be asked to travel the road was clear.
In the opening ceremony of the doctoral program, I discovered that the land where I move this year, Department of Economics, about 30 doctoral students, the Chinese (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) accounted for about 1 / 3. The department has a teacher is in Hong Kong, she was in the U.S. and Canadian universities have spent time, and she told me that the developed countries in any one national university, are filled with the figures of the Chinese people, and the more elite schools, the proportion of the Chinese people higher. Like Harvard, Cambridge, the number of Chinese people is ranked second (at Harvard, second only to the Americans; in Cambridge, second only to the British).
I have two months in Cambridge, but also everywhere felt the warmth from the fellow. The number of students in public, give me one of the most intuitive feelings is to feel very proud of their country. From this side you can see, our nation’s emphasis on education is almost more than any other country in the world. Living in America Sun Yat-sen, Deng Xiaoping and Zhou Enlai in France, Lu Xun in Japan, Qian living in America … … The list can not be out in full, because of modern Chinese history, had studied the background of the celebrity is too much. Without this study can not imagine the enthusiasm of China today would have revival.
Chinese culture has a great tradition of emphasis on education in economic development, while providing a great deal of investment in education, training large numbers of low-level high school talent. Only when we have a solid talent base, a country’s economic growth was likely to have sustained momentum. As Premier Wen Jiabao February 3, 2009 delivered an important speech at the University of Cambridge, said, “the power of knowledge, young people’s courage, can change the fate of the country’s fate, the fate of the entire world.”