Guangzhou, July 12^th, 2010, Guangzhou Daily:

SYSU will set out for a global search for its alumni. Yesterday, the initiation ceremony for SYSU 2010 “Liby Cup: A search for the Footprint of SYSU Alumni” took place. More than 300 volunteer representatives took part in the activity. According to the report, this activity, as a practical course for the trimester system newly started this year, will expand into 17 countries and regions such as the UK and the USA, etc. to search for overseas alumni.

The SYSU Alumni Association has already held 6 sessions of searching activities consecutively and this is the 7^th. This year, the overseas searching volunteer team is injected into a great deal of fresh blood of students going to study abroad and exchange students. There are altogether 33 overseas searching volunteers who will set out for 17 oversea countries including the UK, Denmark, German, Poland, Australia, USA, Canada, Singapore, etc. to build a permanent bridge for the convenience of communication among SYSU people.

It is said that, last year, SYSU started out its overseas searching activity for the first time. 25 young SYSU alumni who had been working or studying abroad joined in the volunteer team and assisted in the search for overseas SYSU alumni in Australia, UK, Bangkok in Thailand, USA, Canada, France, etc. They collected precious images and written records of SYSU overseas students’ celebration of the 85th anniversary of SYSU.

SYSU’s search for its alumni has set a precedent for the higher education institutes searching for alumni. In six years, SYSU has trained more than 3000 volunteers and visited 5000 alumni.