Min Weifang: Peking University Tsinghua Has Been Swept Away For Two Rumors.

Beijing, September 5, September 3rd is the first day for freshmen to enter Beijing University. In an interview with China Education Daily, Min Weifang, Secretary of Peking University Party committee, said, "Peking University Tsinghua University has been swept into second class" in an exaggerated way. Professor Qiu Chengtong recently criticized Harvard's student level in recent years as far less than 10 years ago. Earlier, there was also a statement that "Peking University Tsinghua was swept into second class". In this regard, min Wei said that Peking University, according to the policy of "supporting study abroad, encouraging back home and coming and going freely", not only attracts large numbers of returned students to study abroad, but also many people go abroad to study abroad every year, and many of them can apply for better universities abroad, including Harvard University, Yale University, Stanford University, Stanford University, China, Hong Kong, China, Cornell University, the British Institute of economics and politics, the London School of economics and politics, the Japanese University of Berlin, the University of Germany, Humboldt University and many other European universities. Sometimes I also write letters of recommendation for students who study economics of education and study abroad. They often receive thank-you letters from other schools, and thank them for recommending such excellent students. Min Weifang said, generally speaking, these schools are very good at evaluating our students. I have never heard these schools say, "students in Peking University are not as good as 10 years ago" or something like that. Students of different ages have different characteristics. Students of every era have outstanding and common ones. Even if there are very few Peking University students performing poorly, they can not represent all the students of Peking University. We can not see trees but not forests. Min Weifang said at the same time, we do not think that the so-called "champion scholar" is the only important index to measure the quality of students. The "champion" in the college entrance examination is just a test result, and it is only a parameter of the quality of the students. If we want to look at the quality of student groups in a comprehensive way, we can not just stay on one parameter. In fact, whether you are the first or second place in the college entrance examination, you are standing at the same starting line when you enter the gate of Beijing University. On this issue, we can see "benevolence and benevolence" and "wise men see wisdom". Min Weifang said that the reason for this problem is that the universities in Hongkong came to recruit students in the mainland and recruited the first place in some provinces and cities. This is good news. I think some good students to Hongkong will also be good for the country. Generally speaking, it is good for the integration of Hongkong and the mainland and mutual understanding. However, it is exaggerated to say that "Peking University Tsinghua University has been swept into second class". Min Weifang pointed out that if it is like the media hype, it is not true that Hongkong's University has recruited the first place in 15 provinces and municipalities in the first place this year. There are more than 40 college entrance examination candidates from Peking University this year, more than the total number of "top scholars" recruited by all universities in Hongkong. Of course, the number of "champion" is very meaningful, but it can not be overstated. What we should see is that the powerful universities in Hongkong have been involved in the competition of high-quality students. This motivates us to work harder and make Peking University better.