On November 12, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, President of the People's Republic of China, and Chairperson of the Central Military Commission, sent a letter to congratulate Sun Yat-sen University on its 100th anniversary and extended congratulations to all teachers, students, staff, and alumni at home and abroad.
In the congratulatory letter, Xi Jinping emphasized that, at a new starting point, he hopes that Sun Yat-sen University will adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, inherit the red gene, adhere to educating people for the Party and cultivating talents for the country, focus on the major national strategies and the development needs of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, promote education reform and development, scientific and technological innovation, and talent cultivation in an integrated manner, accelerate the construction of a world-class university with Chinese characteristics, and make new and greater contributions to building a strong education country and promoting Chinese modernization.
On the afternoon of November 13, Zhongshan School of Medicine held an enlarged study session of the Theoretical Learning Center Group of the Party Committee to specifically convey and study the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's congratulatory letter and to study and deploy the work of the school in learning, implementing, and fulfilling it. Hao Yajuan, Secretary of the Party Committee, presided over the meeting. Professor Kuang Ming, Assistant President of Sun Yat-sen University and Dean of Zhongshan School of Medicine, and other members of the Party and administrative leadership teams and members of the Party Committee attended the meeting. Secretaries and members of the Party branches and other relevant personnel were present as observers.
Dean Kuang Ming said that General Secretary Xi Jinping's congratulatory letter is far-sighted, profound in connotation, and of great significance, fully reflecting the importance and care that the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core attaches to the cause of higher education and Sun Yat-sen University. Standing at the starting point of Sun Yat-sen University's new century-long journey, Zhongshan School of Medicine should adhere to inheriting the red gene, adhere to the "Four Orientations", focus on the major strategic needs of the country and the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, unite and gather alumni at home and abroad, and write a new chapter around promoting education reform and building a strong education country. The congratulatory letter has pointed out the direction for our development. The whole school should strengthen learning, combine it with the actual development of the school, give full play to the leading role and the spirit of being the master in the medical education of the university, emancipate the mind, work hard with a sense of responsibility, and contribute to the construction of a Healthy China.

Secretary Hao Yajuan said that General Secretary Xi Jinping's congratulatory letter has made every member of Sun Yat-sen University feel extremely honored and inspired. We should keep in mind the entrustment, bravely shoulder the mission, and quickly set off an upsurge in learning and implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's congratulatory letter. Party members and cadres should take the lead in learning, achieving a high degree of ideological consciousness and firm and powerful actions. We should also closely combine the study of the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's congratulatory letter with the study and implementation of the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee and the spirit of the National Education Conference, continuously make efforts in cultivating students' sense of patriotism and family affection, cultivating noble teachers' ethics and styles, and improving the internal governance of the school, transform the learning achievements into work efficiency, promote the high-quality development of the school's undertakings, and step into the next century-long journey with a high-spirited attitude.

General Secretary Xi Jinping's congratulatory letter has aroused a strong response among the teachers, students, and staff of the school. Everyone unanimously said that they will keep in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's earnest entrustment, bravely shoulder the mission of the times, and make new and greater contributions to building a strong education country and promoting Chinese modernization.