On June 25, after taking a group photo of the graduates 2013 and the relevant teachers at the square of SSDPP at 8:00 am, School of Social Development and Public Policy of Beijing Normal University held a farewell party for graduates 2013 in Rm. 2026 of the North Main Building. Dean Zhang Xiulan, Party Branch Secretary Tian Donghua, Jin Chenggang, Gao Ying and a few other teachers attended the party. SSDPP's doctoral students, academic postgraduate students and MPA students were present at the event.

At the beginning, the meeting announced the winners of SSDPP's Outstanding Thesis Award and the Finalist for Outstanding Thesis Award as well as the Outstanding Graduate Student Award of Beijing Normal University, and issued the certificates. After that, the graduate each delivered a speech and expressed their heartfelt thanks to the teachers who took good care of them over the past three years. They recalled their development course over the past three years, looked to the future life and expressed deep blessing to each other. The teachers also placed new expectations and exhortations on the graduates and gave their best wishes to them.

Finally, Teacher Zhang Xiulan talked about gratitude, youth and friendship between teachers and students with the graduates, benefiting the graduates a lot. Teacher Zhang hoped that all the teachers and students will cherish the precious resources and friendship among the schoolmates, take SSDPP as their home and often come back.