On the morning of July 8, at the 2018 Shanghai Jiao Tong University Undergraduate Graduation Ceremony and Degree Awarding Ceremony, 38-year-old Chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association Yao Ming spoke as a graduate representative to express his gratitude to his alma mater, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

As a graduate, we are about to step into the society today, and everyone is looking forward to a better future.At this moment, I want to say: lsquo; At an appropriate stage in the future, try to integrate your future with society.rsquo;Because only in this way will you give yourself more space to explore.This society can be big or small, it may be a group, or it may be just your own small family.No matter what, we will slowly learn to take responsibility beyond personal.lsquo;The future is your rsquo;, please allow me to paraphrase a famous saying on the basketball court more than ten years ago.Believe me, a guy knows what he's talking about when it took him 7 years and 38 years to graduate from undergrad.Yao Ming said in his speech. He also expressed his gratitude to his parents in his speech: I want to thank my parents.It is your persistence and even stubbornness that required me to make a promise before stepping into the CBA professional arena at the age of 17, that I must return to school and finish college after my athlete career is over. According to reports, during his study, Yao Ming not only studied hard, but also actively participated in various school activities.As a senior, he sent messages and blessings to the first-year freshmen of Shanghai Jiaotong University in 2013, and participated in the activities of the National Table Tennis and Jiaotong University, and showed off playing table tennis at the campus tour ceremony; the 120th anniversary of Shanghai Jiaotong University, Yao Ming immediately sent birthday wishes: Happy 120th birthday to his alma mater!Always young and beautiful! Zhengshi News (WeChat ID: zsenews) noticed that July 8th is also the 7th anniversary of Yao Ming's retirement. On July 8, 2011, the NBA announced the news of Yao Ming's retirement.In the following seven years, Yao Ming went from a basketball player to a freshman in Shanghai Jiaotong University, a member of the Standing Committee of the Shanghai CPPCC, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and the chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association. After Yao Ming retired in July 2011, he announced two months later that he would enter Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and officially enrolled on November 7 of that year.A total of 150 credits are required for the combination of lectures.

On the first day of school, Yao Ming was sitting in the last row of the classroom. His teacher commented that he was cleaning the blackboard for the teacher after class, and he was not a celebrity.

At that time, a reporter asked Yao Ming that he could have hired a teacher to study, why did he choose to study within the system?Yao Ming said that he still needs a learning atmosphere.

In December 2011, at the second meeting of the first council of the Shanghai Public Diplomacy Association, he was added as the vice president, and was also appointed as the honorary ambassador of the association. In January 2012, Yao Ming was co-elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the Shanghai CPPCC, becoming the youngest member of the Standing Committee of the Shanghai CPPCC at that time.A year later, in February 2013, Yao Ming was elected as a member of the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. In the same month when he was elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the Shanghai Municipal People's Political Consultative Conference, he was added as the vice chairman of the Shanghai Sports Federation at the fourth meeting of the Standing Committee of the Seventh Committee of the Shanghai Sports Federation. In February 2017, at the Ninth National Congress of the Chinese Basketball Association, Yao Ming was unanimously elected as the new chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association. This incident caused a sensation at the time: this was the first time that a person from the public served as the chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association, breaking the practice of appointing an insider to the position. It was also evaluated by public opinion as the first year of the substantive reform of the Chinese Basketball Association. Over the past year since he took office, Yao Ming has carried out drastic reforms, released the competition plan and reform measures for the next five years of the CBA League, and launched the dual national team system at the same time.

Zhengshi News (WeChat ID: zsenews) noticed that because of various basketball-related jobs, Yao Ming graduated after 7 years and received a corresponding degree in 2018.In his speech on the 8th, when reviewing his 7 years of school career, he laughed at himself and said: During the years of studying at school, I thought of quitting more than once, especially when I was taking advanced mathematics classes. This sentence caused laughter from the students present, he continued, and through this process, I also believe that the learning process is more important than the result.