In last summer vocation, Guangdong Provincial Department of Education launched a summer social practice activity for college students which was called building a well-off society and building a Chinese dream. After the recommendation of the school and the selection by the Provincial Department of Education, a total of 50 outstanding projects were selected in this activity and 2 of that came from Shenzhen University. One is the project from a summer practice team from the Institute for Advanced Study which is called Guilin Beautiful Rural Service Team.

The summer social practice team of the Institute for Advanced Study went to the Xing'an County of Guilin city in Guangxi Province to do a 5-day beautiful village service from July 8th to July 12th, 2019. During this trip, the practice team visited the memorial park of the red army's long march and reviewed the most important war in the period of the red army's long march, which is called Xiangjiang Campaign. The practice team also visited the Guilin Office of the 8th National Revolutionary Army to remember the Guilin’s history during the War of Resistance against Japan. The patriotic education base reminded the team members of their oaths when joining the party and made them more understand the mission and responsibility of college students.

Many members of this team came from biology and chemistry majors and they combined their knowledge with the practice to complete the water quality detection and garbage classification research in the water source protection area. In order to improve the accuracy of the water quality test results, the team members took water from multiple sources and used professional equipment to test the water samples even when the weather condition was very bad. In the research of garbage classification, the practice team conducted surveys in a lot of communities in Xing'an County and they were pleased to find that many people in towns and villages have started to classify garbage, but the facilities of garbage classification need to be improved and the government still ought to arouse public concern towards this issue.

The Institute for Advanced Study always focuses on the students’ education in science and social practice is a good opportunity for them to test and enhance the knowledge they got from school. The students are supposed to study hard and learn more scientific knowledge to contribute to the development of the country in the future.

Team members: Xin Wan (Captain), Tian’er Zheng, Shuang Wu, Wenjie Lai, Zhi Lin, Yixin Peng, Jialin Wang, Yongjia Wang, Kaixuan Deng, Xucong Deng, Xin Wang, Guosheng Zhang

Supervisor: Teacher Yang Wei

Leader: Teacher Hailiang Chen