Hangzhou, September 12, 2025 — China Academy of Art (CAA) welcomed 3,022 new students at its 2025 Opening Ceremony on Friday at the Xiangshan Campus in Hangzhou, attended by more than 3,000 faculty, alumni, and families.

On the evening of September 12, China Academy of Art (CAA) held the Opening Ceremony for New Students 2025 at the Xiangshan Campus, Hangzhou, China, as the freshmen gathered to begin a new chapter in their lives. Yu Xuhong, president of China Academy of Art, delivered a keynote address. Jin Yibin, Chairman of the Committee of Academy Affairs of CAA, presented badges to student representatives and gifted them with traditional cultural items, including paper, ink, brushes, and copybooks. Members of CAA' s leadership team, including SunXudong, Shen Hao, Cao Xiaoyang, Han Xu, Chen Yujie, XiaWenli, along with heads of teaching units and functional departments, attended the event. The ceremony was hosted by Fu Qiaoling, Vice Chairman of the Committee of Academy Affairs.

The ceremony began with the national anthem, followed by a symbolic presentation of academy badges and cultural gifts to student representatives. President Yu Xuhong delivered a speech titled "Art, A Lifelong Vocation" highlighting CAA' s century-old legacy and urging students to follow the school motto for their moral growth: Manner and Strength to Inspire Action, Virtue and Reverence to cultivate character, Mastery and Openness to measure learning, Experience and Vision to empower ambition.

Speakers recalled the Academy' s wartime resilience and emphasized its evolving mission to uphold the ideologies of "eclecticism" and “innovation derive from tradition” and to foster cultural confidence in a global context. Faculty and student representatives encouraged the Class of 2025 to approach their studies with patience, courage, and responsibility, while embracing art as both personal expression and social mission.

In the presence of faculty members, student representatives solemnly accepted these cultural gifts, which embody the essence of traditional Chinese culture and the deepest expectations of the Academy' s esteemed predecessors, that is, the expectations for the future leaders of the artistic community, and symbolize the inheritance of CAA' s century-old academic legacies. From this moment, the new arrivers have begun their artistic journey within this lakeside and mountain environment, which is also a journey of carrying for the long tradition of CAA.