Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of Tarim University

Rooted in southern Xinjiang, where science and knowledge are most needed, Tarim University has always kept in mind the original intention of “educate people with the spirit of Populus euphratica and serve the frontiers of Xingjiang”, and used 60 years of vivid practice to develop a distinctive, leap-forward, and sustainable. The road to revitalization and development of schools in Xinjiang has provided valuable talent support for the economic and social development of Xinjiang, especially southern Xinjiang, and has made indelible contributions, becoming “a wonder soldier on the educational front.”

Talents are the first resource for social development, and universities are the cradle for cultivating talents. Tarim University was born in a critical period when the country’s undertakings of reclaiming and protecting the borders and developing Tarim urgently needed all kinds of talents. It has grown and grown amidst the ups and downs, completing the leap from an agricultural college to a comprehensive university. Over the past 60 years, Tarim University has always relied on the needs of frontier construction and taken the task of reclaiming and protecting the border as its own responsibility. It has cultivated batches of useful talents that are reliable, affordable, retained, useful, and good. At present, with the strength of the entire corps and the wisdom of the entire corps to promote southward development, the role of Tarim University has become more prominent-adhere to the major needs of southern Xinjiang’s economic and social development as the guide, and strive to create a highland for educating people and talents. Bringing together highlands, innovation highlands, service highlands and cultural highlands, strive to provide strong talent guarantee and intellectual support for the development of the XPCC to the south, and serve for the Xingjiang and solid borders.

Those who govern the world are in talents, and those who become the world’s talents are in education. Over the years, Tarim University has always combined the historical mission of the XPCC with the responsibilities of the school, taking the XPCC’s spirit as the soul of running a school, and taking border protection and solidification as the foothold of running the school. The school has always implemented the “love of the motherland” in the action of maintaining the unity and stability of Xinjiang, the “selfless dedication” in the action of taking into account the overall situation and the contribution of the borders, and the implementation of “hard work” in the action of making achievements based on the grassroots, and will “forge ahead. “It is implemented in actions to promote the prosperity and progress of Xinjiang. At the same time, fully considering that southern Xinjiang is a remote area where many ethnic groups live in concentrated communities and are intertwined with multiple cultures, the “Five Concepts”, “Four Identities” and “Three Inseparables” education have been carried out for a long time, and the school’s words, teachings, materialization, and materialization have been brought into full play. The nurturing function of educating students is to educate students to consciously maintain national unity, to be defenders of Xinjiang’s social stability, and practitioners of the XPCC’s cause of maintaining stability and defending borders.

History and practice have proved that stability in southern Xinjiang leads to stability in Xinjiang. The work of southern Xinjiang plays an important role in revitalizing Xinjiang. As a comprehensive university in southern Xinjiang, Tarim University is obliged and duty-bound to maintain social stability and long-term stability in Xinjiang, especially the development and stability of southern Xinjiang. In the new historical period, Tarim University must further emancipate its mind, change its concepts, seize opportunities, and accelerate development, with the theme of improving quality and scientific development, with changing the development mode, adjusting the structure of disciplines, and improving service capabilities as the main line, and focus on South Africa. Xinjiang, seize opportunities, forge ahead, pioneer and innovate, provide continuous talent support for the economic and social development of Xinjiang and the XPCC, and make new and greater contributions to maintaining social stability and long-term stability in Xinjiang.

The harsh environment tempered the perseverance and quality of Tarim University, and its unique geographical location determined its important role in social stability, national unity, maintaining stability and border protection, and economic and social development. Staying in the wind and rain, not forgetting the original aspiration, “to use the Populus euphratica spirit to educate people and serve the frontiers of Xingjiang”, Tarim University will practice this original aspiration with more excellent results.