On the afternoon of September 5, the opening ceremony for the Class of 2025 graduate students at the Henan Elite Institute of Engineering was ceremoniously held in the Academic Lecture Hall of the Dongfeng Campus Library. Vice President Xiao Yanqiu attended the ceremony. Leaders of the Graduate School and the graduate teaching departments at Dongfeng Campus, together with mentor representatives from the Elite Institute of Engineering and all incoming graduate students of the Class of 2025, also participated in the event.

Xiao Yanqiu, on behalf of the university’s Party and administrative leadership, extended a warm welcome and sincere congratulations to the first cohort of new students. He urged them to cherish their time, maintain their passion for engineering and technology, pioneer the future with innovative thinking, and achieve success through perseverance. He also encouraged them to strive to become outstanding engineers of the new era, capable of shouldering the great responsibility of national rejuvenation, and to contribute their youthful energy to building a strong manufacturing nation and achieving high-level scientific and technological self-reliance. Representatives from the Graduate School, the College of Electrical and Information Engineering, as well as mentor and student representatives from the Elite Institute of Engineering, also delivered speeches at the ceremony.

The successful convening of this opening ceremony marks the official launch of the first cohort of graduate students at the Elite Institute of Engineering, setting sail on their journey to pursue excellence and carve their own paths toward distinction.