(1) Why is the history department so talented?
——Seeing the Forbes ranking of the richest people in mainland China
Among the majors in Chinese higher education institutions, history This department is probably one of the most traditional, remote, and least popular among students. During the college entrance examination in recent years, students have applied for popular majors such as computer science, finance and trade, and finance. Some had no choice but to be admitted to the history department and tried every means to change their majors. The reason is obvious. History graduates are not popular. They either become teachers, engage in research, or change careers.
However, I had the same idea back then, but in recent years I have gradually come to see the value of the history department. I was a law student at Hangzhou University in my early years, and I have always been somewhat self-righteous. However, among our liberal arts graduates, most of them have become leaders of party and government agencies or principals of universities and technical secondary schools, and some have even held important positions in central state agencies and provincial and municipal agencies. . Among the students who graduated at the same time as me, Ms. Wang Xufeng from the History Department of Hangzhou University became a famous female writer in the Chinese literary world and was the only winner of the Mao Dun Literary Award in Zhejiang Province. There is also Wang Wanfu, a young writer who has gradually become famous recently. It is said that he is also a student of the History Department of Hangzhou University. His "Taste of the Institution" is listed as one of the representative works of Chinese officialdom literature. Wang is called "the representative writer of contemporary Chinese officialdom literature" by major media such as Canada's Longyuan International Book Network and "Beijing Times". The author of a history series who was regarded as an "antique shop" surprised the talented people in the Chinese Department.
The best is yet to come. The "Forbes Ranking of the Richest People in Mainland China in 2002" has recently been hyped by major media across the country. The academic qualifications announced by the rich are even more surprising. Among the 13 richest people selected in Zhejiang Province, two are graduates of the History Department of Hangzhou University - one is Zhou Qingzhi, the CEO of Narada Group, and the other is Song Weiping, the CEO of Greentown Group. Two business tycoons were selected into the Forbes rankings, further boosting the value of history students.
How can a remote history department produce so many talented people that they can dominate the political, literary and business circles? This phenomenon is really thought-provoking.
In fact, the Department of History may seem like a "paper pile" department, but in fact it is an interdisciplinary "all-round" department and a "pioneer" department in quality education. Four years of university and 20 years of working life have made me deeply feel that our university majors are too divided. Law is law, philosophy is philosophy, and Chinese is Chinese. The more you study, the more specialized and deeper you become - law. It is a certain type of law, philosophy is the philosophy of a certain sect, Chinese is also Chinese at a certain stage, and other science and engineering subjects are even more sophisticated. But this is not the case in the history department. Since ancient times, China has always had "no separation of literature and history". In fact, "no separation of literature, history and philosophy". The history books include history, Chinese, philosophy and even various other subjects. They are really broad and profound. An excellent history student has unknowingly traveled through various disciplines and gained broader knowledge than students from other majors. In addition, after graduating from college, because students from other departments are easier to assign, students from the history department are often left out and assigned to work in universities, technical secondary schools, news media, and party and government agencies. They have extensive knowledge and fresh jobs. Combined with the environment, talents and thinking skills are exercised. After graduating from the History Department, writer Wang Xufeng worked successively as a newspaper reporter, kindergarten teacher, and museum docent until he won the highly anticipated Mao Dun Literature Award. At that time, Wang Wanfu, a talented scholar from the History Department of Hangzhou University, was assigned to a farm in rural western Zhejiang, and later transferred to the county government where he worked for 10 years. It was precisely because he knew the well-being of the grassroots people and knew the officialdom so well that he wrote the novel about officialdom so vividly and superbly. After Zhou Qingzhi graduated from the History Department, he worked as a policy researcher for the Wenzhou Municipal Government for 10 years. He then went to the south to engage in electronic products and oil trading. After getting his first pot of gold, he returned to Hangzhou to engage in real estate development. Now his Nandu Group was listed in Singapore the year before last. The company has 1,500 employees, a futures investment company and 6 expressways. Song Weiping, the CEO of Greentown Group, who is famous in China for the Greentown football team, worked as a teacher for six years after graduating from the history department, and then went to the south to work in real estate business in Hangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing. Last year, his sales revenue reached US$110 million.
It is undoubtedly a good thing that there are many talented people in the history department. It enlightens us that university education cannot be too divided. We should try to feed more "coarse grains" and less "refined grains", otherwise it will easily lead to "malnutrition". In addition, you cannot "hang yourself on a tree" after graduation. Recently I heard that Fudan University students can choose their major for a second time after entering the school. Universities elsewhere are also experimenting with enrolling first and choosing a major later.
I believe that this education model will be more conducive to the cultivation of talents, and the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation also requires a large number of compound talents