2004年初,从陕西省军区政委岗位上退下来刚两年的雷星平,欣然应邀到兰州军区西安老战士大学担任副校长,次年初接任校长。11年来,他全身心扑在老年教育事业上,继承和发扬延安精神、“抗大”传统,矢志不渝地坚持政治建校的方向、勤俭办学的精神,在规范化办学的道路上不断创新办学方式和教学方法,使学校在过去的基础上越办越好,多次荣获全国先进老年大学、兰州军区先进老战士 In early 2004, Lei Xingping, who just stepped down from the post of Political Commissar of Shaanxi Province Military Region, was invited to be the Vice-Chancellor of Xi’an Old Warrior University in Lanzhou Military Region and was taken over as the headmaster at the beginning of next year. In the past 11 years, he devoted himself entirely to the education for the elderly. He inherited and carried forward the Yan’an spirit and the tradition of “resisting the great big” and unswervingly adhered to the direction of establishing the political school and diligently thrifty the spirit of running a school. He continued to standardize the way of running a school Innovative ways of running schools and teaching methods will make the school better and better on the basis of the past and have won many honors such as the National Advanced Geriatrics University, the Advanced Veterans of the Lanzhou Military Region