On May 22, with joyful laughter echoing on the playground of Nankai University, the first Fun-Game Sports Meeting was held simultaneously on the Balitai campus and the Jinnan campus. Teachers and students showed their special prowess in interesting competitions and enjoyed the pleasure of sports through multiple games.

Qu Kai, deputy secretary of the CPC Nankai University Committee, attended the event and cheered for teachers and students. Qu said that sports help to enhance our physical fitness and cultivate the spirit of teamwork. Relevant departments of Nankai should continue to actively serve teachers and students, inherit and carry forward the century-old Nankai sporting spirit, and step up the physical education of the university to a new level.

On the playground, passionate teachers and students participated in various individual and collective projects such as Zhongxing Pengyue (a game where several people work together to lift a ball), Super Hanoi Tower, Dryland Dragon Boat, Sandbag Throwing, Sailing on the Same Boat (a relay game where team members move in the same “boat”), Super Obstacle, Kangaroo Transporting Melons and Brave Jigsaw.

Jia Ru, an undergraduate from the School of Economics of Nankai University, who came to participate in the competition, said: We have gained knowledge in sports and competition, gotten exercise and have learned to unite and cooperate. Nankai's excellent sports tradition and vigorous sportsmanship are of great worth to carry forward into the future.

As early as a hundred years ago, Mr. Zhang Boling, the principal of Nankai and a patriotic educator, explored the Chinese dream of Sports•Olympics while navigating the difficult journey of seeking to build a powerful nation. Nankai has been working off of Mr. Zhang’s physical education philosophy throughout the course of its hundred year’s development, making sports  an important way for Nankai to shape students' healthy personalities and also utilized them as a crucial channel for Nankai students to communicate with society and the world.

Nankai University is carrying out diverse sports activities, promoting  in-depth physical education reforms, as well as enhancing the all-round development of students' morality, intelligence, fitness and artistic skills. Every student is able to and encouraged to participate in at least one sports competition.

For a long time, Nankai University has been launching sports games with rich content and various forms. A great number of extracurricular physical exercise activities with the theme of Going Off the Internet, Going Out of the Dormitory, and Going to the Playground have been  implemented throughout the school, receiving active participation from teachers and students and creating an excellent sports atmosphere.

Jointly organized by the Sports Department and the Trade Union of Nankai University, more than 2,000 teachers and students participated in the Fun-Game Sports Meeting.

(Reported and photographed by Renming Qiao, translated by Menglin Lu, edited by Daniel Stefan and JianjingYun)