Source: University Youth League Committee, School of Medical Humanities and General Practice

Proofread and Edited by the Office of International Cooperation 

Youth in its prime, setting sail on the medical path.

White coats newly donned, mission on their shoulders.

Today, a thousand participants practice fitness exercises together.

Every stance and move strengthens the physique;

Every breath and pause revives the mind and body.

CMU welcomes its new students with the “First Lesson on Health,”

launching ten major initiatives to promote students' physical and mental health,

laying a solid foundation for youth and building strength for growth.

Event Highlights

On September 29, Capital Medical University held a launch ceremony for its Student Physical and Mental Health Initiative and the "First Lesson on Health for New Students," offering all first-year students a distinctive orientation experience. At the event, the university unveiled ten major initiatives to promote students’ physical and mental well-being, with the aim of building a comprehensive health education system that integrates medical and educational resources and promotes the coordinated development of moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic, and labor education.

 

Gao Jun, Second-Level Inspector of the Department of Physical Health and Arts Education of the Ministry of Education; Zhou Lin, Member of the Education Working Committee of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and Deputy Director of the Beijing Municipal Education Commission; Wang Dapin, Secretary of the University Party Commitee; Zhang Lixin, Deputy Secretary of the University Party Commitee; Wu Bing, Standing Member of the University Party Committee and Vice President; and Xu Liang, Standing Member of the University Party Committee and Vice President, attended the event. The first batch of physical and mental health education mentors, media representatives, and more than 2,000 teachers and students participated together.

"Drumming for Youth"

The event opened with “Drumming for Youth,” a Chinese drum performance featuring 100 students. Dressed in red capes, the medical students—representing different majors and year groups—beat their drums in unison, sounding a rallying call for action on health. The rising and falling drumbeats echoed the rhythm of life's heartbeat and breathing, fully demonstrating the rigorous teamwork and spirited youth of CMU students.

 

Wang Dapin Delivers a Speech

In his remarks, Wang Dapin urged students to take primary responsibility for their own health and encouraged faculty members to guide them toward healthy development. He stated that the university would rely on platforms such as the Healthy China Research Center and affiliated hospitals to unite the combined efforts of families, schools, society, and medical institutions, creating a replicable and promotable "CMU Solution" for health education.

Zhang Lixin Chairs the Ceremony

The ceremony unveiled ten initiatives to promote students’ physical and mental well-being: strengthening foundations through Party building; fostering growth through medical-educational collaboration; promoting fitness through the integration of medicine and sports; enriching campus life through the integration of medicine and the arts; encouraging practical engagement through the integration of medicine and labor education; strengthening psychological support; cultivating healthy behaviors; enhancing the faculty workforce; empowering health initiatives through smart technologies; and fostering a shared health culture. Together, these initiatives are designed to support health education throughout students’ development and across the entire talent-development process.

Zhou Lin Delivers Remarks

Zhou Lin expressed the hope that the university would upgrade its educational philosophy from a "healthy school" to "school health," expand its educational path from a focus on single psychological health to the integration of five educations, and elevate its service capacity from serving the university itself to serving the entire city, providing greater support for the physical and mental health of primary, secondary, and university students across Beijing.

Gao Jun Delivers Remarks

Gao Jun noted that the country places great importance on students’ physical and mental health. The Ministry of Education, he said, is advancing the development of healthy schools and promoting the integration of the five areas of education. He encouraged CMU to build on its strengths in medicine, continue exploring medical-educational collaboration and integrated education, and develop more practical outcomes that can be shared and applied more widely.

Appointment Certificates Presented to Physical and Mental Health Education Mentors

The university appointed the following individuals as physical and mental health education mentors: Zhang Jigang, artist and National First-Class Director; Feng Yu, Olympic champion and former captain of the Chinese National Synchronized Swimming Team; Huang Jie, host of China Media Group; Jiao Junyan, young actress; Mei Lin, Chair Professor of Capital Medical University and Director of the Chinese Institutes for Medical Research, Beijing; Jiang Xieyuan, Deputy Party Secretary and President of Beijing Jishuitan Hospital, Capital Medical University; Wang Gang, Deputy Party Secretary and President of Beijing Anding Hospital, Capital Medical University; and Tan Hongbao, alumnus of the 2014 doctoral cohort and Director of the Sleep Medicine Center of Changsha Fourth Hospital. Wu Bing and Xu Liang presented the mentors with their appointment letters.

The mentors, drawing on their personal experiences in artistic creation, sports competition, performing arts, clinical medicine, medical innovation, and health popularization, earnestly shared their expectations for young medical students.

Zhang Jigang encouraged the students: "Life iss not merely meant to be lived; it is meant to bloom. No matter when or in what circumstances, always keep an ocean in your heart, illuminating others and yourself."

Feng Yu, reflecting on her competitive experiences, said: "Sports have given me a body that withstands tempering and a mind that remains steady under pressure."

Huang Jie encouraged everyone: "A strong body is the cornerstone of our dreams, and an open mind is the strength for our journey forward."

Jiao Junyan reminded the students: "Only a strong physique and a sun-facing mindset are the confidence to pursue your passions and withstand all pressures."

"Let us run together, achieving ourselves with a healthy physique and a sunny mindset," Mei Lin called out to the young students.

Jiang Xieyuan shared from the perspective of sports health: "The best clothing in the world is developed muscles and healthy skin."

Wang Gang, based on clinical experience, encouraged medical students: "Cultivate a sound personality, forge a strong inner self, and become healers who possess both professional skills and warm empathy."

Tan Hongbao shared: "Keep a regular routine, stabilize your emotions, and walk your medical path well with a full state of being."

These sincere messages, from different dimensions of body and mind, charted the course for the growth of young medical students.

  

Messages from Physical and Mental Health Education Mentors

 

Student Representatives Give Thematic Sharing

Student representatives presented a thematic sharing titled "Youth Toward Health, Growing Together on the Medical Path," issuing the initiative to "integrate health into daily life and let youth burn hot with medicine," interpreting the meaning of health from the perspective of peers and calling on students to implement health management in every small detail of daily life.

 

Launch Ceremony

In an atmosphere charged with enthusiasm, university leaders and faculty and student representatives took the stage to launch the Capital Medical University Student Physical and Mental Health Initiative together.

A Thousand People Practice the Original Fitness Exercise "The Rhythm of Life" Together 

"Health action starts now!" After the launch ceremony, more than a thousand medical students practiced the university's original fitness exercise "The Rhythm of Life" together. This fitness exercise was independently created by university teachers and students, based on the foundations of sports medicine and integrating traditional Chinese medicine health preservation, physical-aesthetic-labor education, and psychological adjustment concepts from multiple disciplines. It is divided into three sets of movements—"Relax Shoulders and Brighten the Face, Straighten the Spine and Loosen the Hips, Revitalize Body and Mind"—which are independent yet progressive. Suitable for both group performance and divided use during class breaks and clinical work intervals, it truly allows practice at any time and use in any place, adapting to multiple scenarios such as campuses, teaching, and hospitals, possessing both medical professionalism and popular practicality.

Upholding the "Health First" concept, the university will also use this fitness exercise as a starting point to guide medical students to establish health awareness from the first lesson upon entering the campus, getting teachers and students moving, making the campus lively, and strengthening physical fitness!

 

Students Perform the Original Theme Song "Setting Sail on the Medical Path" 

After the fitness exercise performance concluded, 27 students from the main campus, the Chinese Institutes for Medical Research, Beijing, and various clinical medical schools took the stage to perform the original theme song "Setting Sail on the Medical Path." The lyrics etched youthful moments of campus morning reading, lab breakthroughs, athletic exertion, and clinical dedication, expressing through song CMU youth's ideals in safeguarding life.

 

Beyond the main stage, the "My Health, My Decision" Healthy Youth Market bustled with activity, with experience sections such as sports fitness, cultural and artistic experiences, psychological support, traditional Chinese medicine wellness, and health screenings attracting students to stop, check in, and immerse themselves in the experience.

As night fell, the "Youth Open Mic" artistic performance and the "Healthy Youth, Illuminating Hearts" lawn movie were staged in succession. Teachers and students gathered on the sports ground to watch the film together, perceiving the spiritual power of perseverance and struggle in the story of light and shadow, and relieving physical and mental stress in a relaxed atmosphere.

From the hundred drums opening, mentor guidance, and peer sharing, to a thousand people practicing the original fitness exercise together and the original song being sung, and then to the interactive market and lawn movie viewing, the "Health First" concept is being transformed into immersive, participatory, and actionable vivid educational practice, nourishing the CMU campus like spring rain and sowing the seeds of healthy growth in the hearts of youth.

"My Health, My Decision" Healthy Youth Market

Youth Open Mic

 

"Health First, starting from freshman year; A strong nation needs me, be a health guardian!"

In the next step, fostering virtue through education, relying on the ten major initiatives to continuously improve the full-cycle student physical and mental health support system, leveraging the unique advantages of a medical university, assisting the integrated construction of physical and mental health for primary, secondary, and university students in Beijing, cultivating a new generation of medical talents—physically strong, mentally resilient, and compassionate in both heart and skill, and continuously contributing CMU strength to the construction of Healthy Beijing and Healthy China.