1972, The Red Flag-Waving Youthful Era

In the spring of 1972, on a train heading to the Great Northern Wilderness for re-education, Chu Miaohong quietly tossed an old envelope into the wind. Far away in the year 2024, Zhang Hongcheng co...

Chapter 346 Business is Everywhere

Later generations used a phrase to describe the first two batches of college students after the resumption of the college entrance examination.

"Gold 77, Silver 78".

The college entrance examination admission rate in 1977 was as high as 4.9%, while the admission rate in 1978 was an astonishing 6.6%.

The admission rate of the college entrance examination in 1978 also created a record that is impossible to break.

The first few classes of college students after the resumption of the college entrance examination created a characteristic on major campuses that could not be replicated in later generations.

Later generations of college students had to ask teachers for advice on almost everything after entering school and learn all kinds of knowledge from teachers.

During their freshman and sophomore years, most of them did errands.

But when it comes to the 1977 college students, the situation is completely reversed.

Teachers who are immersed in study and research and are somewhat out of touch with society often have to listen to the advice of this class of students on many foreign-related matters, or simply let this class of students make the arrangements themselves.

For example, when it comes to welcoming new students, the teachers trust them and hand over this task to the freshmen to organize and complete.

Are you kidding me? Dozens of deputy section chiefs and several section chiefs can't even do this?

Before the freshmen entered the school in 1978, freshmen could be seen running around all over the school, including Minzu University.

The sophomores, juniors and seniors can only watch from the sidelines. Of course, if they can put aside their pride, they can also do some errands.

The teachers at Minzu University are somewhat biased, and the student union replacement process is almost completed on a weekly basis.

Two days before the orientation work started, the Minzu University Student Union had completely become the world of freshmen.

There's no way around it, the freshmen are simply too mature compared to their seniors.

Many of the problems in the school that had caused previous student unions so much trouble and required frequent meetings to be solved, in the hands of the 1977 students, were just small matters that could be solved in just a dozen minutes of meeting.

If they were not afraid of losing face when asked by outsiders, the freshmen of the class of 1977 who went to the train station and bus station to welcome the new students would almost not even want to be accompanied by the teachers in the school.

The students of the Class of 1977 were even better than their teachers at communicating with various departments of the station, arranging the site, and taking on new procedures.

The two teachers who led the team from Minzu University were helplessly stuffed with a pack of cigarettes by their own students, and they squatted on the side, smoking and watching the fun.

Before long, the group of teachers squatting on the side watching the excitement grew larger and larger.

They are all disliked by their own students...

Either they would be given a cup of strong tea made with hot water borrowed from the station by their own students, or they would be given half a pack of cigarettes and a box of matches, and even small stools were prepared by the students.

This experience of being disliked and cared for by students can only be felt by the first few batches of college students.

The 1977 class of Minzu University went even further, even booking all the driver positions for several large trucks borrowed from the neighboring Dongfeng Express for the freshman orientation.

In later generations, when welcoming new students at the Beijing Railway Station, the most eye-catching stalls were definitely those of Yan University and Shuimu.

But in the 1970s and 1980s, no one was willing to give in to anyone else, and whoever got the top spot at the station exit would get it.

The welcoming team from Minzu University did not arrive very early, and the good seats had already been taken by other colleges and universities.

Zhang Hongcheng, who was following behind several newly appointed student union leaders, muttered a few words in a low voice.

So the Minzu University welcoming team immediately rushed over and moved the iron railing at the connection between the platform and the exit passage more than ten meters. They occupied the small corridor connecting the platform to the exit passage!

The welcoming teams of various universities were stunned for a moment. Aren’t you from Minzu University too bold?

But what they didn't expect was that the station staff had no intention of coming out to take care of it.

In fact, the ability to temporarily move this row of iron railings was not discovered until a year later by students from the Physical Education University.

Minzu University borrowed three military trucks from Dongfeng Express. They also brought several tables, a large number of benches, and some unidentified supplies.

Unlike the welcome booths of other schools, Minzu University’s booth has two unique tables.

[Minzu University Student Union Work-Study Program].

Large soup buckets borrowed from the school cafeteria were lined up, and students took turns fetching hot water from the train station's water room and pouring it into the buckets.

September was the time when the hottest autumn weather hit Beijing. Tired and thirsty passengers got off the crowded trains and onto the platforms. The one-cent cup of boiled water provided by Minzu University students was very popular and sought after by the passengers.

The railway station also turned a blind eye to this. After all, they said that the purpose was to raise funds for the study and living expenses of poor students at Minzu University.

As for work-study programs, all units should support them.

Besides, it will only be sold for about ten days.

It is completely different from speculation and profiteering.

The station leaders were even generous enough to ask the Minzu University Work-Study Program Office to set up more stalls selling boiled water on each platform.

It is obvious that this bad idea was come from someone named Zhang.

This guy is not one of the big guys in the student union, he is just a vice president of the Science and Technology Association, but he is definitely the one with the most ideas and the most reliable one in the student union.

This is also a small suggestion from Zhang Hongcheng.

There is also something offered at Minzu University’s work-study booth.

I got a large number of Beijing tourist maps from Xinhua Bookstore that had been piled up for many years.

Xinhua Bookstore sent an employee to prove that this was a formal book sales activity.

In fact, this batch of maps had long been allocated to Minzu University Press by Xinhua Bookstore at an internal price.

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