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on the evening of september 1, the opening ceremony for the 2024 freshmen of the school of law of zhongnan university of economics and law was held at the north stadium of nanhu campus. at the opening ceremony, professor chen baifeng, dean of the school of law and deputy secretary of the party committee, delivered a speech entitled "growing beyond "experience"".

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he linked the three books selected for freshmen this year, "inside and outside the spiritual realm: a brief history of internet governance", "eighty-seven years: the creation of america (1776-1863)", and "empirical research methods in law", to introduce the "experiential" differences in the understanding of the development of the internet and the western knowledge system, revealing the fact that understanding of things requires crossing the "experiential" gap, thus bringing out the central topic of "experience".

starting from the simple definition of experience that "experience is the information, knowledge and feelings obtained from nature, history and society", chen baifeng talked about the importance of "experiential" thinking in understanding knowledge, emphasized the need to use "experiential" thinking and understanding of "experience" to think about the logic of the development of events and the mechanisms behind things, and gave three effective ways to help the growth of experiential thinking: reading thousands of books, traveling thousands of miles, and making friends all over the world. he also encouraged students to break through the limitations of experience, use experiential thinking, master experiential research methods, and grow beyond "experience".

in his speech, he said, "faced with the western knowledge system, empirical thinking and empirical understanding are effective ways to establish subject consciousness. only by truly understanding western ideas, political systems and legal rules from an empirical perspective can we avoid being constrained by meanings and intentions beyond basic facts, and avoid turning ourselves into part of western ideas, systems and legal 'practices'. in this way, we will neither belittle ourselves and mistakenly believe that civilization ends with the western model and that the rule of law is only in the west; nor will we be arrogant and practice the rule of law behind closed doors and refuse to learn from the world's outstanding achievements in the rule of law civilization."

in his opinion, "besides learning, facing the turbulent and complex society and world, those who lack experience are easily led by others." "and the weapon to resist misleading is the thinking of experience. 'let the bullet fly for a while', we should think more about the logic of the development of events and the mechanism behind things from the perspective of experience and real interests. if we have a clear understanding of the problems and laws from experience, we will not be so easily 'fooled'."

public information shows that chen baifeng graduated from zhongnan university of economics and law with a bachelor's and master's degree, and received a doctorate from huazhong university of science and technology in 2008. he has been teaching at zhongnan university of economics and law since july 2005, and has served as an assistant, lecturer, associate professor, and professor. he has served as the director of the department of theoretical law, the deputy dean of the school of law, the director of the talent work office, and the deputy director of the personnel department. since september 2021, chen baifeng has served as the dean of the school of law and the deputy secretary of the party committee. since october 2022, he has also served as the dean of the national governance school.

chen baifeng's research areas are jurisprudence, sociology of law, social governance law, and grassroots governance. he has published more than 100 papers in journals such as "social sciences in china", "chinese legal science", "legal studies", "sociological studies", and "political science studies". he has published 8 monographs including "empirical research methods of law", "rule of law in media supervision", "rural jianghu", "rural justice", and "semi-acquaintance society". he is the editor-in-chief of the "jurisprudence" textbook and popular readings such as "what is jurisprudence" and "11 possibilities of jurisprudence".

the school of law of zhongnan university of economics and law originated from the school of politics of zhongyuan university, which was established in december 1949. in january 1951, the school of politics was merged into the school of finance and economics; in september 1952, the school of politics was separated and expanded into the school of politics and law. in 1953, the school of politics and law of zhongyuan university was established by merging the political and legal departments of sun yat-sen university, guangxi university and hunan university. in october 1958, the school of politics and law, zhongnan university of finance and economics, zhongnan school of politics and law and the law department of wuhan university were merged to form hubei university. the above-mentioned political and legal colleges, schools and departments formed the law department of hubei university; in 1977, it evolved into the law department of hubei university of finance and economics, and enrolled the first batch of undergraduate students majoring in law after the restoration of the college entrance examination system that year. in december 1984, the school of law of hubei university of finance and economics was officially restored. in may 2000, zhongnan university of finance and economics and zhongnan university of political science and law merged to form zhongnan university of finance and economics. the main body of the former zhongnan university of political science and law and the former law department of zhongnan university of finance and economics formed the school of law.