In order to enrich the leisure cultural life of the faculty of the School of Information, enhance the physical fitness of the faculty and promote the development of campus table tennis, the School of Information of Shanxi University of Finance and Economic held the first "Shishang Cup" faculty and staff table tennis competition on the afternoon of November 14, 2023, in the east and north halls of the second floor of the university gymnasium.

The competition received a warm response from the faculty and staff of the School, and all members signed up to participate. There were 28 faculty members from the administrative and teaching front-line entered the college group stage and finals after the internal preliminary round of the teaching and research department. To ensure the professionalism and fairness of the competition, Professor Wang Baozhong from the School, as the technical director, provided extensive and meticulous guidance and training to the participating teachers and referees before the competition.

After a brief warm-up, a lively competition unfolded between the players in each group, adopting the mixed doubles mode. 28 faculty and staff players were fully immersed in the competition, demonstrating their abilities in every corner. They were both skilled in both literature and martial arts, and not only performed well in their respective work, but also excelled in the table tennis field by overcoming surmount numerous difficulties.

With changing situation and fluttering banner on the competition field, all the players came on the scene to show their extraordinary ball skills. Two teachers, Wang Baozhong and Li Jianfen, with agile postures and light steps, sometimes flexibly used their forehand hook to serve, and sometimes unexpectedly released the ball with backhand side spins. High difficulty movements such as serving and attacking, rubbing the ball to change the line, backhand pushing and blocking, and front and back hand pulling arcs were constantly emerging. Either precise attack, or clever defense, dunking, spinning, one move at a time all showed subtlety.

With the sound of "Ping-pong, ping-pong", the white ball moved people's hearts, shuttling back and forth on the table, drawing beautiful curves. Two teachers, Zhang Qingfang and Yuan Yanping, calmly challenged each other, demonstrating their superb technical skills and calm competitive mentality. The audience outside the field also occasionally cheered. Exquisite skills and intense competition made the game exciting and full of climaxes! Two teachers, Li Aijun and Zhang Wenyue, dared to fight and fight and demonstrated impressive competitive skills and a burst of fighting consciousness. The field was filled with a tense and serious competition atmosphere, and filled more with positive and cheerful sports atmosphere.

In the competition, the participating faculty and staff challenged themselves and worked hard, fully promoting the spirit of friendship first and competition second. They followed the rules, obeyed the referee, achieving standard in the competition. Student referees were loyal to their duties, made fair judgments, and provided enthusiastic service, ensuring fairness and impartiality in the competition.

After fierce competition, the first faculty table tennis competition "Shishang Cup" of the School of Information came to a successful end. Wang Baozhong and Li Jianfen won first place in mixed doubles, Zhang Qingfang and Yuan Yanping won second place, and Li Aijun and Zhang Wenyue won third place.

The event was a competition of unity, progress, and cohesion, opening a new journey of sports and fitness for all at the School of Information. It was certain that in the future work, all the faculty and staff of our School would transform the spirit of hard work and perseverance inspired by the competition into a strong driving force for overcoming difficulties, and working hard. What’s more, it would contribute to the high-quality development to our School with full enthusiasm, healthy body and fighting spirit.