(CRI)
Updated: 2008-01-02 09:16

Xu Zhihong, president of Peking University, highlighted the school's New Year party on Monday night with an encouraging pop song.

Xu Zhihong, president of Peking University, performs an encouraging pop song at the school's New Year party on December 31, 2007. [China Photo Press]

The grey-haired scholar performed "The Hidden Wings", originally sang by Taiwan pop diva Angela Chang, at the school's annual year-end gathering first held in 2000.

He also danced with students after giving them a New Year speech ahead of 2008, the school's 110th anniversary since is was founded in 1898.