Last Wednesday evening on April 14, I drove to Boston Chinatown to attend a special banquet to kick off the centennial celebration of Tsinghua University in Beijing China. It was very exciting for me to meet the president and vice president of the university, the head of the computer science and technology department, as well as many Tsinghua alumni in the greater Boston area. Together we wined and dined, talked about the old days in school, and listened to the president’s speech about Tsinghua’s development over the years and its future direction. One major theme was that as China has risen to the world stage, this well-established institution of higher education in China has striven to become one of the top universities of the world. The 130+ delegation carried this flying dream to the United States and presented it to its alumni in San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, New York, and many top level universities in the United States.
Listening to Tsinghua’s flying dream, I recalled my own flying dream over two decades ago when I flew from Beijing to the U.S. I left Tsinghua University and came to pursue a dream of my own. Now a new dream of the place where I studied and worked in Beijing has been presented in front of me here in Boston: building a better, greater Tsinghua. I am proud my alma mater and wish it to succeed. Let’s toast the Tsinghua Dream!
