On October17, President Xu Huibin attended an “informal meeting at noon” at the Inspiration Space of Xueyuanlu Campus with faculty and staff representatives from some schools, laboratories and offices of Beihang University. They discussed various aspects of the university’s development and shared their life and work at Beihang.

Among the attendees were Vice President Liu Shuchun, representatives from Office of Party and Government Affairs, Office of Academic Affairs, Institute of Science and Technology, Graduate School, Human Resource Department, Department of Campus Asset Planning, Construction and Management, Logistics Department (Community Management Service Center), Shahe Campus Management Committee, and other related schools.

The meeting went on in an aura of relaxation and pleasure. Faculty and staff representatives offered many practical suggestions and ideas on various topics including the building of Shahe Campus and Xueyuanlu Campus, the development of schools as well as the improvement of core competitiveness of Beihang University.

During the dialogue, President Xu first introduced the functional position of Inspiration Space and expressed gratitude to all the representatives who show great concerns to Beihang’s development. He pointed out that Beihang will focus on launching a series of measures to boost care for the physical and mental health of teachers this year. As the important supporting force, all faculty members play a crucial role in accelerating the university’s development. He noted that more efforts will be made to create better living and working conditions for teachers. He hoped that all faculty members would continue to make contributions to the university in support of the goal of developing Beihang into a “Double First-Class” university.

Before the event, representatives visited the meeting room and the rest areas provided for teachers at Inspiration Space. In order to further promote the co-construction and sharing of a warm campus, strengthen morality education and enhance the happiness of teachers and students, Beihang University transformed the previous café in the northeast corner of the Gymnasium of Xueyuanlu Campus into Inspiration Space to provide coffee, books, souvenirs and other services to teachers and students. Inspiration Space also provides meeting rooms and rest areas for Shahe faculty and staff to make a short stay and work.

At the same time, four café in the two campuses officially launched the “shared coffee” activity — the first coffee per day costs 6 yuan only — for teachers and students of Beihang University from October 17 with the hope that they can exchange their thoughts and appreciate the well-being as drinking coffee.

Reported by Wang Qing

Photographed by Di Bailu

Reviewed by Tan Hualin

Edited by Jia Aiping

Translated by Ren Chenjie