志存高远，惜时如金，不负时代
Good morning, Dear respected professors from University of Nebraska, Dear Respected president and professors from the college, Dear all students:
As one of professors in college of Food Science and Engineering, I feel very happy and glad to have a speech here. Firstly, on behalf of all faculty in the college, I would like to take this opportunity to say welcome to professors from university of Nebraska, to all new students of the international class. And I also would like to say congratulations to all students,you are admitted as undergraduates after a strong and vigorous competition because you are very excellent. During the past several days you are here, you may have some knowledge about our university. Northwest A&F University is a prestigious and well-known double first rate class university, the University has not only a beautiful and picturesque campus just like a big park, the university has also a long history to train talents and students. The university has been doing and will continue to tryits best to provide students with pleasant, comfortable and convenient life, high quality equipment for research.
So, it is your turn, what you should do during your study in the university? Some students may hear a once popular saying that it is very hard for high school students and it is very easy for college students, the answer is definitely and absolutely NO and absurd. Just recently, the Ministry of education has issued a new regulation and requirement that college and university students should spend more time on their study and end their easy-going life. Therefore, at the beginning of your college life, I would like to give all of you some suggestions in order to make way for your better future.
Suggestion 1: 做人做事做学问 when you are admitted as undergraduates of the international class, most of you have turned 17 or 18 years old or even older, 17 or 18 is already a responsible age, you should think the way of how I will be a responsible, usefuland learned man, how can I be beneficial to social, country or your family, doing good things for our society, our country or your family, it is very important for you to grown up as a responsible, useful and learned man, it is not easy to say what is a responsible, useful and learned man, but I would like to say, at least, a responsible, useful and learned manis a man who loves our country, our society, be patriotic, be optimistic and open broad minded, study hard, learn as much knowledge as you can, try your best to make contributions to social and economic development, improvement of peoples life, do good things not bad things in your whole life.
Suggestion 2: 立志高远方自强, As everyone knows, great progress has been made in science, technology and economy, competition in all aspects is becoming stronger and more fierce. The father of biologist Darwin said in his theory of evolution, the famous saying the survival of the fittest, you may understand the real meaning about in natural process and selection. You should ask yourself? Do I have ability and confidence in the future, and where does my ability and confidence come from, you are supposed to have an ambitious goal about your futureat the beginning of your college study and life. When you have an ambitious objective, you will find you have a lot of curiosity about the nature and you have enoughenergy and strength to study hard and prepare what is needed for your ambition, your confidence and your competence.
Only you have an ambitious goal, will you race against time and clock to learn whatever you can to improve yourself and prepare for your future.
Suggestion 3: 刻苦勤奋是正道: Our society is a knowledge explosion and technology and information based society, there are a lot of things for you to learn, you will never have time to relax. You all know, knowledge is power, where does knowledge come from? The only way is by learning from different aspects. Just as Chinese saying goes, 学无止境苦作舟, Learning is endless in one’s life.you are student of food science, you have a number of class courses to learn, you need at least three aspects based knowledge, that is mathematics based knowledge, engineering, equipment, chemistry based knowledge including inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, analytical chemistry, food chemistry, biology based knowledge containing microbiology, fermentation, molecular biology and so on. You need to improve your English speaking, reading, listening and writing. You need to broden your vocabulary, you need to study some American history, American culture before you are going to USA. Do you have time to relax? The answer is very easy, NO. You need to pick your time. At the same time, you should learn the best way of learning for yourself. Remember, learning to fish is always more important than just receiving fish, youalso should know and understand the real meaning that the great use of education is not so much to teach you things as to teach you the art of learning.
Believe me, I will not deceive you, when you are steeped yourself in your study, it is very amazing, not boring.You will realize that you are not deceived by what I have said.
Suggestion 4: 创新意识早培养： Creation and innovation is the basic element for progress in every aspect, including social and economic development, improvement of people’s living standard. What is creation or innovation? It is a very complex question and not easy to answer, but what I want to say about creation or innovation is difference between what it is now and what you are thinking, please never be blocked by teacher’s and textbook’s instructions, think them out of the box. In the following time you begin your study, always ask yourself more why it is than what it is, why sth is done like this, not what is done in a way. Only in this way, will you make some improvements, some alterations, some modifications about what has been commonly accepted or considered, for example, when you begin a research or an experiment, what you should do? It may be different for different people, but I would like to suggest you, reading large volumes of books, papers, publications in the related field to know and understand what has been done in the past? What achievement has been made and what problem still exists? What you can do is to improve sth or solve some problems, to change sth from what is already good to better, to best, that is creation or innovation.
Every one knows, the society, the whole worldis more competitive and creative than it was 10 or 20 years ago, all students, Are you ready for creation in your following study?
Only by your hard working in your best way for a long timeand perseverance, will the Chinese Dream of the Great Revival of the GreatChinese Nation be realized.
通过你们长期的努力、奋斗与坚持，中华民族伟大复兴的中国梦一定能实现。
As you may know, the international students of first year have been in USA now, just like them, three years later, you will be going to USA for your further study, I believe and wish everyone will make majestic and great progress in your career in the future. And you will become a great man in food related area and make splendid and great contribution to food science, food safety or even science development. But what I want to say is that your contribution just to food science, food safetyis not enough, please always keep in mind that China and American are the most important, powerful and influentialcountries in the world, you should also be ambassadors just like a bridge to connect peoples of the two countries together, I wish and I am sure all of you will be the persons who help Chinese and Americans to know more each other, to understand each other and to help each other, a good relationship, friendship, cooperation and reconciliation between China and USA will not only benefit both Chinese and Americans, but also benefit people of other countries.
You have a long way to go.
Students, a more beautiful and bright future and prospect is beckoning on you.
同学们，请始终牢记，中国和美国是世界上两个重要的、有影响力的大国，你们学成后，仅仅为食品工业的发展做出贡献是不够的，你们应该像派往美国的大使一样，将中国人民和美国人民紧紧联系在一起，相互加深理解，相互帮助，中国和美国之间的友谊、良好关系、合作、和解不仅惠及中美两国人民，也会惠及世界人民。你们任重而道远。
最后，我再想叮咛同学们几句，俗话讲的好，人勤地不懒，人勤世上无难事，人懒身边难事多，只要你们树立伟大的理想、正确的人生观和奋斗观，一个更加光辉灿烂的明天在召唤你们，努力吧，同学们。Thank you.
