Ding Ning interacts with staff and medical professionals
Filled with enthusiasm and excitement, staff and medical professionals flooded Ding Ning with questions such as: “Why did table tennis become China’s national sport?” “How do you balance individual drive and team goals?” “How do you sustain passion through decades of training?” Reflecting on her career, Ning shared: “For a significant part of my life, table tennis has been my constant companion. Competitive sports can teach you that every day brings countless victories and defeats.”
Ding Ning Engages in a Dialogue with the Audience
Reflecting on her Journey from athlete to student to teacher, Ding Ning shared, “It’s a blessing to experience different roles as it allows you to learn new skills and witness a broader world.” During the exchange, Ding Ning’s stories about athletes’ patriotism, Olympic champion’s charisma, resilient inner world, and positive outlook inspired everyone present.
Group photo with Ding Ning
The event is part of the hospital’s 2025 cultural literacy enhancement initiative aimed at boosting staff well-being through the establishment of a three-tiered cultural system encompassing “hospital culture, departmental culture, and family culture”. Earlier programs featured Peking University’s Professor Chu Xiaobo on literature and scholar Li Kelin exploring medical themes in art—aimed at forging culture with professional growth.
