On September 12th-14th, HEBAU held grand Opening Ceremony and welcoming cultural performances for the 2024 freshmen at Baoding campus, Bohai campus, and Qinhuangdao campus, welcoming over 12000 freshmen to join the big family of HEBAU. At the opening ceremony, Zhang Lijie, President of HEBAU, warmly welcomed the arrival of freshmen on behalf of all faculty, students and staff of HEBAU. He delivered a speech titled“Gathering the Strength of Youth Struggle, Courageously Shouldering the Mission of Strengthening Agriculture and Promoting Agricultural Development", and gave each freshman representative an emblem which symbolizes the spirit of HEBAU.

The cultural performances are divided into three parts: "Welcome, Freshmen", "I Love You, HEBAU", and "Wishing You, Motherland", which brought many surprises to the students.  For example, HEBAU sent birthday wishes to 16 freshmen on that day, and 1000 unmanned aerial vehicles displayed brilliant light and shadow changes in the night sky about themes such as welcoming Freshmen, spreading the Taihang Mountain Spirit and Li Baoguo Spirit of HEBAU, and celebrating the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.