On March 24, 2019, before the arriving of the 50th “World Earth Day”, organized by China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF), Peking University Innovation and Entrepreneurship College, Sichuan Provincial Ecological Civilization Promotion Association, hosted by 52jingcai.com and CBCGDF College Students Development Working Committee (Green Great Committee) , the Third National College/University Students Environmental Protection Knowledge Competition was held at Peking University. Dr. Zhou Jinfeng, the Secretary-General of CBCGDF, Chen Dongmin, the Dean of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship College of Peking University, and Liu Yong, the founder of 52jingcai.com among the guests attended the conference.
Representatives from media outlets such as people.com.cn, gmw.cn, chinanews.com, ifeng.com, hjjyzzc.cn, gbnncn.com, and more than one hundred students and volunteers from colleges and universities including Peking University, Beijing Union University, and environmental protection public welfare organizations attended the conference.
This knowledge competition is scheduled to start on April 1, 2019 at the huanbao.52jingsai.com platform. At the same time, each college/university, as a co-organizer, host various types of thematic activities offline. Through convening more than 1,000 colleges and universities in China from April to June, it aims to encourage university students to actively learn environmental protection knowledge and improve their awareness and ability to protect the environment. As pioneers in the practice of environmental protection, the colleges/universities have actively demonstrated the role of protecting the environment, shouldering a sense of mission and responsibility, an are determined to move forward. In the second session of the competition in 2018, more than two million Chinese college students participated, and more than 1,200 universities participated as the co-organizers. These numbers are expected to grow continually in the third session in 2019.
Dr. Zhou Jinfeng, the Secretary-General of China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF) said in his speech: Human beings have experiences the era of primitive civilization, agricultural civilization and industrial civilization. Due to the rapid development of industrial civilization, the water, air and soil required by human beings have been seriously polluted. Therefore, human beings are facing ecological problems. The significance of this environmental knowledge competition is to understand the core issues of ecological civilization through innovation and entrepreneurship.
The innovation and entrepreneurship required in today’s era is the demand of a new era of ecological civilization. College/university students are the younger generation and the future of mankind. Therefore, the students are also the most capable and most in need of accepting the ideas of new civilization, and the generation that is the most capable to change the world we live in. This event is not only a simple competition, but also a movement of thought and learning, which is also a practice movement. I hope that the students of various colleges/universities will actively participate in this event.
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Original Chinese articles:
http://www.cbcgdf.org/NewsShow/4854/8070.html
http://www.cbcgdf.org/NewsShow/4854/8094.html
By / Niu Jingmei