On November 22, 2023, the Olympic champion Li Xuerui's team studio was unveiled at the Sports Center of Huxi Campus, Chongqing University. Wang Shuxin, President of Chongqing University and an academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Feng Yedong, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Chongqing University and relevant leaders from the College of Physical Education of Chongqing University attended the inauguration ceremony. Upon the completion of the ceremony, President Wang Shuxin visited Li Xuerui's team studio and badminton hall at the Sports Center.
Feng Yedong said in his speech that Chongqing University attaches great importance to the sports work and the construction of Li Xuerui's team studio. He hoped that the College of Physical Education would give full play to Li Xuerui's influence and appeal as an Olympic champion, exercise the leading role and driving effect of the studio, build the studio into a comprehensive team integrating "teaching, training, scientific research and competition", and embark on a distinctive and fruitful road of integration of sports and education, thereby continuously improving the level of sports competition and promoting the high-quality development of physical education in Chongqing University.
Surrounded by warm applause, President Wang Shuxin announced the inauguration of Li Xuerui's team studio.
He inquired in detail about the construction of the studio and the completion of supporting facilities in the badminton hall. "I hope to see the sports talents of Chongqing University in more high-level sports events." He also fully affirmed the achievements of student athletes in previous competitions and raised ardent expectations. He pointed out that the College of Physical Education should give play to the leading role of the Olympic champion's team studio, form a group of high-level professional training teams for competitive sports, devote itself to building first-class sports matching with first-rate universities, create an excellent campus sports culture and cultivate high-level competitive talents, and make great contributions to accelerating the construction of a sports power.
"I think that opportunities and challenges coexist, and advance marches in step with responsibility" Since joining Chongqing University, Li Xuerui has taken advantages of her occupation and fully mobilized resources to integrate the Olympic spirit into daily education and teaching, and personally guided students and faculty to carry out physical exercise, effectively promoting the development of physical activities in Chongqing University. Under her promotion, the badminton has become the most representative sports event of Chongqing University, enjoying tremendous popularity among the teachers and students.
She said that she would deepen the badminton team building, establish a high-level competitive sports team based on the principle of "unique featured brand for school-running" and "multiple development fields relying on unique featured brand" through the development idea of "point-line-surface", and then form the basic pattern of first-class sports in first-rate university. In the future, the team would take the studio as an opportunity to unite with resources such as China Badminton Association, focus on training student athletes playing badminton, attract more sports talents, enhance the ability to train highly-educated and high-level student athletes, and compete in various sports events on behalf of Chongqing University and further China to win honors.
She also said that Chongqing University, as a comprehensive university, provides a good platform for the development of sports, and the studio will fully take the advantages of interdisciplines and integrate these advantages into the construction of sports disciplines. In addition, public physical education courses and unrestricted major-based elective courses as well as campus sports events will be held to create a strong campus sports culture atmosphere, which will drive all teachers and students to participate in physical exercise and gain pleasure from sports, and comprehensively improve the physical and mental health level of teachers and students.
