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Chinese universities become a vital force in poverty alleviation

(People's Daily Online)    10:55, January 23, 2020

Teachers and students from Chinese colleges and universities are giving full play to the advantages brought by talents, intelligence, science and technology, becoming an important new force in poverty alleviation.

At present, 75 colleges and universities directly under the Ministry of Education have become involved in poverty alleviation work.

Members of a support group from Northwestern Polytechnical University have lunch with students on the campus of Baohuan Middle School in Rongshui Miao autonomous county, south China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. (Photo/Xinhua)

In 2018, the first batch of 44 universities directly under the Ministry of Education with comprehensive and science & engineering majors invested 138 million yuan (about $20 million) in funds for poverty assistance and helped sell agricultural products worth 327 million yuan.

In May 2018, Shaanxi Normal University helped with the construction of Yang's courtyard, a key project in Lan'gao county of Ankang, northwestern China’s Shaanxi province. The courtyard has become the first cultural tourism town of intangible cultural heritage in the province.

For more than a year, Sun Qingchao, Secretary of the Party Committee of the School of Arts at Shaanxi Normal University, led the teachers and students of the liberal arts college in preserving and sorting the local precious folklore, historical anecdotes, folk songs, poetry relics and other important cultural materials.

In addition to cultural arts, educational and medical fields have emerged as the focus of support work. Since 2017, a total of 21 students from East China University of Science and Technology have come to Xundian, a backward rural region, in Yunnan of Southwest China to carry out teaching activities. They use their professional knowledge and expertise to warm the hearts of mountain children with their youth, companionship and knowledge.

Shandong University has also launched a support group program to build relations with students from four schools in Queshan county, Henan in central China. The volunteers helped communicate and interact with children online and offline, so as to help them establish a proper outlook on life and cultivate the correct values. More than 2,000 local students have been included in this program.

Tianjin University plans to use winter and summer vacations to build 100 "dream classrooms" for primary and secondary schools in areas where educational resources are scarce, including art classrooms, audio-visual classrooms, science and technology classrooms, sports rooms, activity rooms and so on by 2020, through crowd-funding, alumni assistance, school-enterprise cooperation and other means.

The Beijing Institute of Technology is sending teams of teachers and students from several vocational colleges to carry out teaching support work in Fangshan county of Shanxi province in north China.

So far, a total of 288 teachers and students from the Beijing Institute of Technology have carried out ideological, vocational and extracurricular education in the region, and have trained a total of 1,554 rural primary and secondary school students.

Medical care is an important issue in people's livelihoods. In order to effectively prevent and control poverty brought by diseases, many colleges and universities have carried out medical poverty alleviation work to ensure the health of people in poor areas while at the same time promoting targeted poverty alleviation.

Fudan University has established a "three-dimensional" health poverty alleviation system through such methods as providing equipment, setting up medical teams, training locals, carrying out on-the-job training, offering consultation and free clinics, and has selected seven batches of 36 medical teams to be stationed in Yongping, Yunnan Province.

Shanghai Jiaotong University has carried out a series of medical support activities such as screening and treatment of children with congenital heart disease, with an investment of nearly 1 million yuan.

Chinese colleges and universities have also made great efforts in pooling talents in poor areas. For instance, 39 teachers from the Beijing University of Chemical Technology have helped train teachers in middle schools from Inner Mongolia in northern China.

"We hope to pass on advanced education concepts and teaching methods to teachers in poor areas, so that they can become the seed of fire and ignite the dreams of poor students," said Guo Minru, a teacher from the Beijing University of Chemical Technology. 

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