From 13 to 17 September, 10 international students from JXUST, led by two teachers from the School of International Education, attended the 2021 Northeast Asia Youth Sustainable Development Study Camp. This camp is organised by the China Soong Ching Ling Foundation and SK Group, and hosted by the Foreign Affairs Office of the Jiangxi Provincial People's Government and the Jiangxi People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries. Its theme of “ Better yourself, Better World”.

Opening Ceremony

With the topic of "Green, Low Carbon, Sustainable Development", this year's Northeast Asia Youth Sustainable Development Study Camp spent five days in Fuzhou and Ganzhou city, Jiangxi Province, where they visited the Huachen Agricultural and Vegetable Technology Industrial Park and Donghu Village in Fuzhou City. They did talks and exchanges with local villagers, and enjoyed the live-action drama performance "Dreaming of Peony Pavilion", and gained a deep appreciation of Jiangxi Province's profound cultural and historical heritage, glorious revolutionary traditions and achievements in poverty alleviation and rural revitalisation.

Learn high-tech farming techniques at the Vegetable Technology Park

In Ruijin city, the campers visited many of revolutionary sites and museums so as to learn about the immortal spirit of that.

Campers in the former site of Yeping, Ruijin city

Furthermore, the campers, in Yudu County, visited the Ping Shan Ranch, the Memorial Park of the Central Red Army Long March Departure Site, the Hefeng Orchid Town, the Yudu Selenium Museum and the Tan Tou Community in Zishan Town.

All campers in the Ping Shan Ranch

In the Museum of the Central Red Army Long March Departure Site

“The red land of Jiangxi is home to many passionate revolutionary stories. Not only I gained a more comprehensive understanding of the story of the Red Revolution, but also witnessed the China's rural development. I will take what I have seen and heard from this study camp back to my own country so that my family and friends can enjoy a better understanding of the China”, Atanu Shuvam Roy said in this camp conversazione, who is a 2018 batch student of Computer Sceince.

Closing ceremony