On October 29, the signing ceremony of comprehensive strategic cooperation between SUES and Songshan Shaolin Temple Martial Arts Museum was held at the Administrative Building of SUES. President Yu Tao and Vice President Zhu Xiaoqing warmly welcomed Jia Hongbo, Director of Shaolin Temple Martial Arts Museum, and his colleagues to SUES.
At the signing ceremony, President Yu Tao pointed out that the cooperation between SUES and the Martial Arts Museum would play a positive role in giving full play to the traditional martial arts program in enhancing students' physical fitness, improving students' persistence, enhancing their cultural self-confidence, inheriting national culture, and promoting national spirit. He hoped that the two parties would take the signing of the agreement as an opportunity to deepen cooperation and exchanges and achieve mutually beneficial and win-win development.
Vice President Zhu Xiaoqing stated that SUES would run the cooperation and exchanges between the two parties in the field of traditional martial arts, and that this would promote the construction of P.E. discipline and the talent training project for college graduates. She also emphasized that these activities would have a positive role in inheriting national culture, cultivating and promoting national spirit, and enhancing national cultural self-confidence.
Jia Hongbo, Director of the Museum, thanked SUES for the warm welcome. He said Shaolin Temple Martial Arts Museum would take the comprehensive strategic cooperation as foundation to promote traditional martial arts into campuses, explore the new mode of cooperation between the museum and colleges. In addition, he believed that a cooperation platform would be built in order to spread the intangible cultural heritage and create a new brand of the intangible cultural heritage on college campuses.
President Yu Tao issued an adjunct professor's letter for Director Jia. The leaders of the two parties conducted full exchanges and discussions on the guidance of student associations, large-scale event performances and cultural heritage of traditional martial arts.
On behalf of SUES, Zhang Jianxin, director of the Department of Physical Education, signed a comprehensive strategic agreement with Director Jia.
The representatives of the Shaolin Temple Martial Arts Museum also gave a lecture on the intangible cultural heritage called Ba-duan-jin exercise (an ancient fitness exercises since Northern Song Dynasty including eight steps). In addition, they provided a wonderful visual feast of Chinese kung fu. Both the lecture and the visual feast brought active interactions between actors and audience and then the activities won a lot of applause from the faculty and students.
The directors and relevant faculty members of different departments at SUES participated in the activities such as those from Office of the Presidents, Department of Physical Education, College of Continuing Education, Institute of International Education and the Association of Retired Professors.
An Introduction to Songshan Shaolin Temple Martial Arts Museum: it was established in 1988, approved by Henan Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism. The Museum was jointly invested by the former National Tourism Administration and Henan Provincial People's Government. The Museum was built specifically for the large-scale Shaolin Kung Fu performance. At the same time, the Museum is China's first large-scale base for training Shaolin Kung Fu professionals from both China and abroad.