On December 31, NEU's 2025 New Year's Concert was held in Cai Guanshen Lecture Hall of Hanqing Auditorium in Nanhu Campus. More than 500 members of the school leadership team and representatives of teachers and students participated in the activity.

Before the beginning of the concert, the school leadership team collectively paid New Year's greetings to the whole school teacher and student representatives.
President Feng Xiating gave a New Year message, conveying New Year blessings and best wishes to all faculty, teachers and students, comprehensively summarizing the fruitful achievements of the school in the past year, and putting forward new expectations for the new year. Feng Xiating pointed out that 2025 is the first year for accelerating the construction of a strong educational system and an important year for achieving new breakthroughs in promoting the construction of first-class universities. It is necessary to comprehensively promote the reform and further release the vitality of school operations, the comprehensive upgrade of major platforms. We need to speed up the construction of the “Unified Service Platform”, truly build a smart campus, and to further improve campus learning and living conditions, focusing on improving the sense of fulfillment, happiness, and belonging of teachers and students.
The concert was jointly performed by the NEU Zhixing Symphony Orchestra and Zhixing Chorus. The concert had a total of 13 pieces, opening with Reflections on Snow, making the snow in the north start teachers and students' yearning for the Spring Festival, their attachment to their hometowns and their love for the motherland. Three foreign symphonies of Violin Concerto in D Major, Carmen, Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor with grand narratives and distinctive features fully embodied the high level and internationalization of this performance. The 4 songs from the Four Great Classical Novels of Celestial Symphony, Vain Longing, Beating up Jiangmenshen, Rolling Yangtze Eastwards Flows brought teachers and students back to that classic, feeling the long history of Chinese culture. The four symphonic choral works of Somewhere in My Memory, Nabucco, Act 3:"Va pensiero, sull`ali dorate" (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves), As Wished, Pursuit expressed the beautiful expectations and persistent pursuit of the future of the NEU people. Finally, the concert came to an end with the full chorus of the return song, You Are Always the Best in the World, and the teachers and students responded with firm voices of unwavering support and confidence in the development of the school.
It is reported that NEU College of Arts focuses on the practical experience of aesthetic education for teachers and students, continues to strengthen the construction of various types of ensembles, strives to cooperate with high-level art troupes and actors, continuously launching high-level art works. 2025 New Year's Day Concert was held at Hunnan Campus and Nanhu Campus respectively, Liaoning Satellite TV Children's Choir, Shenyang Daily Children's Choir, famous suona player Bingbing Wang, famous baritone singer Yansheng Zhang and others were invited to participate in the performance.