China's maritime education has experienced war and closure. By 1949, there were only three maritime institutions of higher learning (civil) in China, namely Northeast Maritime College, Shanghai Maritime College and Fujian Maritime College. These three schools were all junior college students at that time, but in comparison, the latter two were higher, as can be seen from their full names: National Shanghai Maritime College. So in 1953, three universities merged to form Dalian Maritime College, which is actually two high-level schools and supported the relatively backward Northeast Maritime College. But in fact, the main body of the merger of the three universities is Northeast Navigation College, which can be seen from the number of teachers and students at that time: Shanghai Navigation College has 48 teachers and 354 students, Northeast Navigation College has 204 faculty and 569 students, and Fujian Navigation College came to Dalian with 27 teachers and 0/35 students.
These are beside the point, just to let you know the background of the merger at that time.
Shanghai and Fujian resumed maritime education 1958. In fact, there is one person to thank most: Chen Jiageng.
Chen Jiageng is a famous overseas Chinese leader, the founder of Jimei Learning Village and a great pioneer of marine education. 1949 after the founding of new China, when he attended the first China people's political consultative conference, he put forward seven suggestions, including "setting up water navigation schools in important coastal areas". Among them, the proposal of vigorously developing maritime schools has received the attention of the central authorities. Among them, a large part of the reason is that after the withdrawal of the Kuomintang from Taiwan Province Province, the situation in the southeast coast is still unstable. For example, Fujian Aviation College in Jimei School Village is in the front line of civil war. However, Fujian Maritime College, founded by itself, was merged into Dalian (approved by Chen Jiageng), and Chen Jiageng was also full of disappointment. Chen also requested that after the merger, Dalian Maritime College should recruit more Fujian students to ensure the training of Fujian maritime talents.
1In August, 955, Chen Jiageng and his party traveled all over the country and came to the Northeast for the first time. He cares about the development of the shipping industry and has not forgotten to visit Dalian Maritime College. When Chen Jiageng arrived, Dalian Maritime College was basically completed, but he thought it was not handled well: for example, the school building was simple, and there was no library, science and technology museum, gymnasium and auditorium. The teaching staff is bloated and the management staff is bloated. Chen Jiageng was greatly surprised: "It's really unheard of." After returning to Beijing, because he was not satisfied with the running of Dalian Maritime College, he immediately wrote to the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) and Zhou Enlai, asking for information. Soon, the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) replied and forwarded the letter from the Ministry of Communications, acknowledging the oversight of the school and demanding rectification.
1956 In February, Chen Jiageng submitted three proposals at the China People's Political Consultative Conference. The first proposal was "Proposal on Restoring Fujian Maritime College and Shanghai Maritime College", and he personally wrote to Premier Zhou on February 25th. In view of the influence of overseas Chinese leaders and CPPCC vice-chairman, Chen Jiageng's opinion was recognized by Zhou Enlai and senior officials. So, 1958, the brand of Jimei Water Navigation School was hung up again. This school later evolved into Jimei Maritime College, one of the four major maritime colleges, and was merged into Jimei University in 1994.
For Shanghai, as the largest port in China, it is meaningless to lack maritime colleges. After Shanghai Navigation College moved to Dalian, many people in the industry, including some Wusong merchant ships and alumni of Shanghai Navigation College, also asked the central authorities to resume running schools. However, without Chen Jiageng's proposal, Shanghai, as a capitalist stronghold, could not have resumed maritime education so quickly. At the same time as Jimei Xue Cun, in 1958, the Ministry of Communications entrusted the Shanghai Maritime Safety Administration to be responsible for the preparation of classrooms, school buildings and other infrastructure. 1961September, the preparatory work for Shanghai Maritime College was initially completed, and it was directly led by the Ministry of Communications and was a key institution directly under the Ministry of Communications.
This is the root of the relationship between Shanghai Maritime College and Shanghai Maritime College-Chen Jiageng's proposal. Then some people want to say, why didn't the names of "Shanghai Maritime College" and "Fujian Maritime College" be directly restored at that time, but changed their names to Shanghai Maritime College and Jimei Maritime School? China people will not easily admit their mistakes. If the same name appears, doesn't it mean that the wise and correct school merger activity of 1953 is a big joke? So, naturally, I won't go back to school with the same name.
1962, the Ministry of Communications decided to adjust the majors of its colleges and universities, and successively adjusted the marine transportation major of Shanghai Maritime College to Dalian Maritime College, adjusted the mechanical engineering major to Wuhan Maritime Engineering College (now Wuhan University of Technology), and transferred the management and economic majors of the two universities to Shanghai Maritime College. 1958 During the Great Leap Forward, many technical secondary schools opened junior colleges and became junior colleges. 1960 the national economy encountered difficulties and these specialties had to be dismounted. 1962, the economic situation has improved. At that time, there was a shortage of accounting personnel, so the Ministry of Communications called these college students who had dropped out of school because of dismounting to Shanghai Maritime College, and compiled three accounting training courses according to their original school to learn accounting professional knowledge. 1963 In May, more than 20 students graduated from three classes/KLOC-0, and were assigned to ports and shipping units of the Ministry of Communications. Later, Huang Zhendong, an alumnus of Shanghai Maritime College who was then Minister of Communications, was assigned to the then Qinhuangdao Port Authority. 1963 During the summer vacation, the waterway economics major of Wuhan Institute of Waterway Engineering moved to Shanghai, bringing 1659 1, 1660 1, 16602,16/kloc. The marine engineering department of Shanghai Maritime University moved to Wuhan because of the developed port machinery industry in Shanghai and the opening of the port machinery department. 1964 the department of port machinery moved to Wuhan, and the ocean shipping major was placed under the ocean shipping department together with the newly opened English and French majors. At this time, Shanghai Maritime College has three departments: water transport economics department, water transport management department and ocean transport department, which have really begun to take shape. By 1966, Shanghai Maritime College has been transformed into a key institution of higher learning of the Ministry of Communications, specializing in water transport economic management. Note that at this time, most of the science and engineering majors of Shanghai Maritime University have been transferred and a completely liberal arts school has been established to manage foreign languages.
So, you now find that some of the top alumni of Shanghai Maritime University are majoring in water economics, water management and accounting, and there are basically no marine engineers.
It was not easy to get into college at that time. At that time, the enrollment of science and engineering students in colleges and universities was called Class I, Medical Agriculture was called Class II, and Literature and History was called Class III. Because there is a saying in society that "you are not afraid to learn mathematics, physics and chemistry well and travel all over the world", science and engineering students look down on medicine and agriculture, and medical and agricultural students look down on literature and history, and the first, second and third categories are just like the upper, middle and lower classes. Because Shanghai Maritime University is the most despised liberal arts school, there was a big gap between the relevant facilities of the school and Wuhan Shipping and Dalian Shipping at that time: just look at Yujiatou Campus of Wuhan University of Technology (formerly Wuhan Hydraulic Campus), which was the campus in the 1960s, and some facilities at that time are now outdated. Under the educational model of the Soviet Union, Dalian Maritime College was established in Dalian with reference to the model of Odessa Maritime College of the Soviet Union, which mainly trained maritime technicians and managers. Wuhan Waterway Engineering College was established in Wuhan according to the model of Leningrad Waterway Engineering College of the Soviet Union, which mainly trained inland river shipping and management talents as well as marine engineering and technical talents. It can be seen that the Ministry of Communications paid little attention to Shanghai Maritime College at that time.
At that time, in Pudong, Shanghai, there was a teaching building in a farmland, and a dirt road paved with cinders wound through the teaching building to the living area. At the opening of the dirt road, there is a simple communication room and two equally simple gates. There is no fence, only three barbed wire simply tied to concrete columns around the teaching building. What's even more amazing is that there is a reinforced concrete bunker by the dirt road at the gate, and the hole is staring at the front. There are three student dormitories and a teacher dormitory and office in the living area, all of which are four floors. A canteen and auditorium, a small basketball court. This is all the possessions of Shanghai Maritime College.
However, compared with Jimei School Village, Shanghai Maritime College is much luckier, with at least several departments and majors. For example, Wang Jiarui, the current head of the International Liaison Department, graduated from the International Postal English Class of the Department of Oceanography of Shanghai Maritime University. During the Cultural Revolution, Jimei Maritime School simply closed down. 1970 Jimei Maritime School was merged into Xiamen University and established as a department of Xiamen University. Later, Jimei Maritime College was established, and the National Fujian Maritime College was one of its predecessors.
Therefore, everything, co-education is politics, and re-education is also politics. The whole country is red. Who dares to be a reactionary in advance? What Wusong merchant ship and Jimei school will be restored? Knock them all down
It was not until the reform and opening up that the social atmosphere became increasingly relaxed, and tracing the source was put on the agenda again. Many former alumni of Wusong Merchant Shipping asked for the restoration of their alma mater (in fact, another big reason is that Shanghai Jiaotong University does not recognize Wusong Merchant Shipping as its alumni, and PS: Wusong Merchant Shipping Alumni are eligible to join the "national chiao tung university Alumni Association" in Taiwan Province Province), and repeatedly proposed to rename Shanghai Maritime College as Wusong Maritime College or Wusong Maritime College. However, renaming is not easy. Later, in Shanghai, the Department of Navigation and the Department of Marine Engineering merged to form the second-level college "Wusong Merchant Marine College". When it was about to be listed, it was opposed by the leaders of Dalian Maritime College. The Ministry of Communications asked to stop using this name. In order not to refute the face of Wusong alumni (many of whom are influential in the industry), it became the "Merchant Marine Academy" to commemorate it. This is also because Shanghai Maritime University has neither a maritime college nor a marine engineer.
Later, the brand of Wusong Merchant Shipping College Alumni Association was hung in the East Gate of Shanghai Maritime College until the East Gate was rebuilt. The organization of Wusong Merchant Shipping Alumni Association was always located in Shanghai Maritime College. Up to now, most Wusong alumni think that Shanghai Maritime University and Dalian Maritime University are their alma mater. As Qian Yongchang said, both Shanghai Maritime University and Dalian Maritime University are the flowers of ice lotus produced by Wusong merchant ship. Actually, it's not just Wusong merchant ship? Dalian Maritime University and Jimei Maritime College are also lotus flowers of the National Fujian Maritime College.
But there are also some Wusong alumni: for example, Zhao Xicheng has deeper feelings for Shanghai. For example, in China, Zhao donated the first China Mulan Foundation named after his wife, which is headquartered in Shanghai Maritime University. When Zhao Xicheng's daughter and former US Secretary of State Zhao Xiaolan came to China, she specially accompanied her father to Shanghai Jiaotong University and Maritime University, two schools related to Zhao Xicheng, and donated money to build the Mulan Ship Building of Jiaotong University and the Mulan Shipping Simulation Center of Haida University.
History has passed for a long time. It is more important to judge whether you inherited the identity of a school, or whether you really inherited the culture and spirit of the original school. Otherwise, everything will be an armchair strategist and a word game.
How many people remember the motto of Wusong Merchant Shipping "Faith and Respect" and the spirit of "Honesty and Righteousness" of Jimei Hangyuan? Fortunately, Shanghai Maritime University and Jimei University have restored the spirit of these two ancient school mottos, hoping that they will go further and further in the future and truly penetrate into the soul of every student.