On November 12, the 12th National College Student Swimming Championships hosted by the Swimming Branch of the Chinese University Student Sports Association and hosted by our school were held in the gymnasium.

At 8:30 in the morning, the opening ceremony of the 12th National College Student Swimming Championship was held in the Stadium Multi -Energy Hall. The opening ceremony was chaired by Yang Xueyi, Secretary of the Party Committee.

President Chen Yulu delivered a speech on behalf of the school, expressing warm congratulations to the convening of the college student swimming championship, and extended a warm welcome to all the athletes and referees participating in the competition. President Chen pointed out that the National College Student Swimming Championships not only improved the athletes of college students, but also established a platform for strengthening exchanges for various brothers across the country. Over the years, Beiwai has played foreign language talents and discipline advantages to actively serve national economic construction and social development. It has played an important role in a series of major activities such as the Beijing Olympic Games, the Shanghai World Expo, the Guangzhou Asian Games, and the Shenzhen Grand Games. President Chen Yulu said that the school must hold the school's power, and under the specific guidance and strict requirements of the organizing committee, fully complete the tasks of the competition, and strive to do the level and characteristics of the competition. In the end, President Chen Yulu wished this swimming competition a successful success.

Xu Fei, chairman of the Swimming Branch of the China University Student Sports Association and secretary of the Party Committee of Shanghai Jiaotong University, and Shang Xiutang, deputy director of the Swimming Management Center of the State General Administration of Sports, highly affirmed the preparations of this college student swimming championship. , Showing style, creating new achievements and glory.

In his speech, Liu Jingmin, deputy mayor of Beijing, highly affirmed the efforts of our school in various undertakings. He said that since its establishment, Beijing Foreign Studies University has been in discipline construction, talent training, social services, cultural heritage, etc. It has made an indelible and important contribution to the development and construction of the country. Deputy Mayor Liu Jingmin pointed out that this competition is a comprehensive review of the level of swimming in various universities, which will greatly promote the popularization and development of swimming in the country and effectively promote exchanges between regions and universities. I hope that the athletes will work hard and dare to compete, and wish the contest a successful success.

Subsequently, the athlete representatives, the 11th -level student of the School of International Relations, Wang Congye, and the referee representative Cao Wei on behalf of the athletes and referees who participated in the competition.

Finally, Yang Liguo, Secretary -General of the Student Sports Association of the Ministry of Education, announced the opening of the 12th National College Student Swimming Championship.

After the opening ceremony, our school art troupe and bodybuilding team brought wonderful art performances and won warm applause from the audience.

Liao Wenke, deputy director of the Ministry of Education, Education and Education of the Ministry of Education, Xue Yanqing, deputy secretary general of the Secretariat of the Student Sports Association of the Ministry of Education, Li Yingchuan, director of the Beijing Municipal Sports Bureau, He Jinsong, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Education Commission, Li Hongjiang, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Capital Sports Institute, and Zhejiang Finance Zhong Xiaomin, deputy dean of the college, Xu Qi, the leader of the National Swimming Team, Du Songpeng Peng, Chairman of the Beijing University Student Sports Association, and Zhong Meizhen, vice president of our school attended the opening ceremony.

This year's swimming championship lasts for two days, with 475 athletes from 48 universities from 18 provincial and municipal autonomous regions and 48 universities in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Many active national team members participated in the competition. Among them, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University participated in the competition on behalf of Hong Kong universities for the first time.

This competition is the first time that our school has hosted a national single sports competition, and it is also the first time that the school's swimming high -level athletes have played a national competition. This competition will be selected to participate in the Beijing team members of the National College Student Games in Tianjin next year. The swimming team members of our school will have a greater hope to be selected.

(Reporter Guo Wei)