Survey: Graduation ceremonies go digital
BEIJING: A recent survey has found that 88.6% of new Chinese college graduates celebrated their graduation in digital form amid the Covid-19 epidemic.
The graduates surveyed said they mainly celebrated the occasion by making graduation videos, watching graduation ceremonies and buying academicals online, according to a recent report by China Youth Daily.
“This year’s graduation was a special and unforgettable experience for me,” Zhang Hanqi (a pseudonym), a college graduate in Beijing, was quoted as saying by the newspaper.
“Although I couldn’t bid farewell to my teachers and classmates in person and was unable to take a final tour of the campus as a student, this feeling of regret left me with a greater appreciation for campus life and engraved these youthful memories deep in my heart.”
Around 64.5% of the respondents felt that this year’s graduation was of special significance.
Meanwhile, 68% of them said they understood how to better cherish the people around them as a result.
In order to reduce the risk of infection, colleges across the country have adopted an unprecedented form of graduation to ensure that students can graduate as scheduled, Shu Man, a researcher with East China Jiaotong University, told China Youth Daily.
Both students and colleges have displayed great ingenuity and come up with personalised graduation activities, which is a new experience for the graduates and a good opportunity to exercise their creative skills, Shu added.
Among the 2,505 respondents covered by the survey, 52.3% were male and 47.7% were female.