武汉科技大学校史馆英文讲解词

WUST History Museum（Oct. 20. 2015）

Good morning/afternoon/evening, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen!

Welcome to the Wuhan University of Science and Technology History Museum. I am highly honored to be your guide, and would be very pleased to help you to get to know about how our university has developed into what it is now.

This museum has 5 halls, and we are now in the Introduction Hall. This Hall is to illustrate the pedagogical ideas we uphold and the educational philosophy we follow. If you look straight ahead, we can see our university Logo on the ceiling; the white part of this logo is in the shape of a boat, which is sailing on the blue sea. This logo indicates the development of our university will be smooth and swift. On the right, it is a brief sketch of the historical development of our university, together with our philosophy of schooling; our university has a profound history which spans more than 100 years.And the university anthem is on the left. Now we will present you this anthem in Chinese. (扬子江边黄家湖畔)Our university motto is here: “Virtue, Erudition, Practicality and Steadiness”. These exhibitions are to demonstrate our university’s strong association with the iron and steel industry and the spirit of our university, which has been summarized as “Perseverance in hardships, readiness for duty, endeavor for excellence, and consistency in words and deeds”.

Now, would you please follow me to the second section? There, we shall see the “incubation years” of our university. Wuhan University of Science and Technology, or WUST, dates back to the Hubei gongyi xuetang (Hubei Technical Institute) in 1898 founded by Zhang Zhidong (1837-1909), governor general of Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong and Guangxi Provinces in the late Qing Dynasty. This is Governor Zhang and his application document to the Emperor for approval of the school founding. Hubei Technical School was one of the earliest of its kind in China offering technical education, and it marks the first page of

our University. Its campus a t that time was located in today’s Wuchang District, which is here on the map, about 15 kilometers away from here.

The tile here was used for the construction of Hubei Technical School, it has also been awarded as the national cultural relic. There are all together 26 items in this museum have won this title.

Due to historical reasons, Hubei Technical School moved its campus several times and changed its name more than once. During this period, many well-known scientists and scholars taught in the School, including Li Siguang, a geologist; among its famous students were Zhao Shimei, the maker of the revolutionary flag in the Wuchang Uprising of the 1911 Revolution; there are other professors being the teachers of our university. Bao Ding, an architect; He Lvting, a musician; and Pan Liangru, a scientist.

In the summer of 1938, when the invading Japanese army approached to Wuhan, for the safety of its teachers and students, Hubei Technical School merged with other schools and became the Advanced Industry Branch School of Hubei United School, which moved first to western Hubei, later to Sichuan, and finally settled in Enshi Prefecture of Hubei Province. And this is the anthem of Hubei United School, the lyrics of which reflects the students and teachers’ concer ns about the war and their hope for the future.

As the Anti-Japanese War came to the end, the School moved back to Wuhan in 1946. Starting from scratch, it began the reconstruction work, under the new name of the Provincial Hanyang Vocational School of Advanced Industry. These pictures show the students conducting experiments and extracurricular activities. The items in this showcase are the textbooks, examination papers, and graduation papers of students at that time.

The third part of the exhibitions is devoted to the years after the founding of the People’s Republic of China.