In 1983, my wife and I taught for a semester at the Guangzhou Institute of Foreign Languages. It's now the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, a far larger and more sophisticated institution than it once was. We gained a great deal of respect and affection for our students and our Chinese colleagues, who were emerging shell-shocked from the Cultural Revolution somehow prepared to help launch China on its 40-year journey to world power.
Of course this school, like schools worldwide, is now coping with the pandemic. Here's its most recent news item, from May 29, on how the school intends to do its bit: Notice on Further Grasping the Prevention and Control of the Campus Epidemic Situation. The Google translation, lightly edited:
School units and departments:
According to the Announcement No. 13 of the Guangzhou New Corona Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters, Guangzhou has implemented hierarchical and classified prevention and control of the city to respond to the new corona epidemic, and the epidemic situation is very serious and complicated. The Standing Committee of the School Party Committee has repeatedly studied the prevention and control of the epidemic and made a series of deployments. All units and departments of the school must earnestly grasp the epidemic prevention and control work.
1. The security department should further strengthen the management of campus entry and exit, strictly control the school gate, strictly implement various measures such as entering the school identity verification, temperature measurement, bright code, wearing masks, and strictly prohibit unrelated persons outside the school from entering the school without approval.
2. Departments of education, research, personnel, etc. and all colleges must accurately grasp the actions of teachers and students, carry out detailed investigations of teachers and students of residence history in key areas for epidemic prevention and control within 14 days, and report abnormalities in time and deal with them in a timely manner; Student education and guidance work to ensure that teachers and students comply with epidemic prevention requirements.
3. Teachers and students must strictly implement the declaration, approval, and write-off regulations when going out. Students in school are not allowed to go to the key areas of epidemic prevention and control; if they receive information calls for epidemic prevention and control, they must attach great importance to them. Report to your unit as soon as possible, and report to the Office of the Leading Group for Epidemic Prevention and Control of the school as soon as possible. Omission or concealment is strictly prohibited.
4. All units must effectively improve their political positions, enhance their sense of responsibility, strengthen bottom line thinking, respond to small probability events with high probability thinking, resolutely overcome paralysis, war exhaustion, fluke psychology, and relaxation, and strictly implement the school epidemic prevention and control requirements. Fully implement various measures for campus epidemic prevention and control, strictly prevent the epidemic from entering the campus, and ensure the health of teachers and students and campus safety.
Hereby inform
Prevention and Control of New Coronary Pneumonia in Schools Leading Group Office May 29, 2021
