Respected Professors, fellow students,

It is an honor for me to speak here today on behalf of all the international students in Tsinghua University’s School of Journalism and Communications.

Friends, we are gathered here today because of two reasons.

Reason one, we are here to celebrate what has been I believe for all of us, the most fruitful few years of our lives, not only academically, but even for me, who has only been here for two short years, have forged friendships and memories I will cherish for a lifetime.

Reason two, is simply one word, gratitude.

This is the time for gratitude not only to our selves and to our peers but to everyone who has help us and pressured us to get us where we are today.

Our professors, especially those who have shown us so much kindness in Global Business Journalism, and because I am one of the five graduating students of this program I want to take a minute to thank some of them.

Prof. Shi Anbin, I thank you dedication, for your professionalism and your continual pursuit of academic excellence.

Prof. Li Xiguang, I thank you for your passion, your dedication to your beliefs, and all the work you have done for not only this school for all journalism students across the country.

And last, but certainly not least, my own advisor, Prof. Si Jiuyue. I thank you for your care, for your understanding, and for your neverending support to not only me, but our entire class.

My friends, some say we are graduating at the worst time since the great depression, at a time when wages are low and jobs are scarce, but I believe in those who believe that because we are graduating at this time, we will be stronger, fight harder, and even learn to treasure more the simplest things in life that are actually the most important.

There are just two more people I need to thank here today, one of them graduated from this university 30 years ago, one of them has to me been one of the caring and most loving woman to me in this world, both of them have put up with one of the worst sons you can imagine for the past 26 years.

Mum and Dad, thank you for not giving up on me, thank you for always being there no matter what I do, thank you for your love, I love you.

Thank you!

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