In celebration of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, a grand singing gala with the theme of “Let Your Dreams Fly—Sing, the Young Generation” kicked off on the night of April 21st, in the Qiushi Hall on Peiyangyuan Campus, Tianjin University (TJU). Thousands of TJU students assembled in the Hall and expressed their best wishes to the country through passionate songs and music. Teachers and students from Zhejiang University, the Ocean University of China and Xihua University joined the gala and interacted with their TJU counterparts via real-time video on the two big digital screens of the Hall.

Twelve campus songs written and composed by college students were performed by student choruses in the gala, making the first debut since they were elected as the best ones from thousands of works submitted during the Second National Campus Song Composition Competition held by the China Education Network Television (CETV).

Chinese celebrity performers including Guan Mucun, Guo Feng, Escape Plan Band, Team Spark Band, Bi Xia and Ping An showed up and their exhibition of classical songs like China, I Love You, The Brightest Star in the Night Sky, To Dear Us sent the crowds into a sea of cheers and applause and brought the gala to a climax.

Sponsored by the CETV and organized by Tianjin University, the whole gala was video recorded and will air on the CCTV (China Central Television) channel, CETV channel and provincial satellite channels in Tianjin, Zhejiang, Sichuan and Shangdong on May 4th.

By Eva Yin

Editor: Doris Harrington