Our College Organizeda series of activities forthe"2024World Oceans Day”
June 8, 2024 is the 16th "World Oceans Day" and the 17th "National MarineBillboardDay".To enhance the public's understanding of the ocean and raise public awareness ofOceanProtection,ourcollege, in conjunction with theOceanic AdministrationofGuangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Guangxi Radio and Television Station and other units,organization 8 large-scale marine knowledge and science popularization activitiesfrom June 3 to 22, with a total of more than 2,000 participants.
On June 3, Liu Qiyang(Vice-Dean)and Li Zhoujia(Executive Deputy Director of theMarine Science and Education Museum), together with the college's "Blue Dream·Science Popularization First" science popularization volunteer team to Xinghu Road Primary School in Nanning. They conducted an ideological and political education course about marine popularization for the students, theme of "Seeking national prosperity and strength from the ocean,Pursuing the Blue Dream".Combination of science education and ideological and political education have injected new vitality into marine science popularization educationandinspired students' enthusiasmtoexplore,understandand protectthe ocean.
The science popularization volunteer team took a group photo with teachers and students of Xinghu Road Primary School
On June 7, the "Guangxi Marine Mobile Museum" series of campus activities was launched at the Guangxi Natural Resources Museum, jointly sponsored by theOceanic AdministrationofGuangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region,Guangxi Academy of SciencesandGuangxi University,and co-organized by the Natural ResourcesMuseum of Guangxi,School of Marine Sciences at Guangxi University andGuangxi Radio and Television Station Mobile Digital TV Channel.Liang Enwei(Member of the StandingCPCand VicePresident of Guangxi University), attended and delivered a speech.Qin Huadong(Secretary of Party Committee of College),Wang Rui(Vice-Dean),Huang Xueyong(Secretary of Youth League Committee of College)and representatives of undergraduate and graduate students attended the event.At the event, Guangxi University and the Natural History Museum of Guangxi signed a cooperation agreement onIndustry-University-Research, and held a plaque awarding ceremony forScientificResearch and PracticeBase. Additionally, our college donated samples from the Xisha Islands in theSCSto the Natural ResourcesMuseum of Guangxi to help enrich science popularization education.After the launching ceremony, our college’s Coral Reef Protection and Restoration Innovation Team set up an exhibition area atNanning Beifu ExperientialSchool. They conducted science popularization activities on coral reef knowledge, which attracted enthusiastic participation of many students.
Vice President Liang Enwei delivered a speech at the launching ceremony of the "Guangxi Marine Mobile Museum" series of campus activities
Qin Huadong(Secretary of Party Committee of College) andMa Xiaodong(Directorofthe Natural ResourcesMuseum of Guangxi)signedacooperationagreementonIndustry-University-Research
Qin Huadong(Secretary of Party Committee of College) andMa Xiaodong(Directorofthe Natural ResourcesMuseum of Guangxi)presented the plaque awarding ceremony forScientificResearch and PracticeBase
Vice-Dean Wang Ruiand Wei Jiahong(Deputy Directorof the Natural ResourcesMuseum of Guangxi)conducted the donation ofXisha islands’samples
On June 7,the 2024 "World Oceans Day and National Marine Billboard Day" series of activitieswith theme"New Depth AwakentoReappearance Coral Sea"were heldat theSouth BayMarine-Sports-Base on Weizhou Islandandthecoralreefrestoration areaon the northof island. That event washosted byGuangxi University andOceanic AdministrationofGuangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region,organized bySchool of Marine Sciences at Guangxi University,Guangxi Laboratoryon the Study ofCoral Reef in theSCS and the Management CommitteeofWeizhou IslandTouristAttraction,Beihai.Huang Wen, Director of theCoral Reef Museum on Weizhou island of theSchool of Marine Sciences at Guangxi University, attended the event and introduced the remarkable achievementsof our team oncoral reef protection and restoration, marineenvironmentalmonitoringetc.In addition, our college has also launched "Adopt a Coral" activity. Through coral adoption, participants had the opportunity to personally experience the importance of coral protection, enhancedtheir awareness and sense of responsibility towards marine ecologicalconservation, promotedcoral conservation efforts and public engagement.
Huang Wen,Director of theCoral Reef Museum on Weizhou island of theSchool of Marine Sciences at Guangxi University, deliveredaspeech.
On the morning of June 7, a group of 18 teachers and students from the Geography Course Base of Qingshan Campus of Nanning No. 3 Middle School came to theMarine Science and Education Museumof Guangxi University for a study visit. Executive Deputy Director Li Zhoujia delivered a welcome speech to the visiting teachers and students. He delivered an ideological and political education “Museum andCourse Integration” coursewiththeme of "Seeking national prosperity and strength from the ocean,Pursuing the Blue Dream",from the perspective of marine ecology and national security, combined with thedistinctive research of our college.
Li Zhoujia(Executive Deputy Director of theMarine Science and Education Museum)conducted a science popularization and ideological-political education course
On June 8, our college held a science popularization activity with theme of "Protect Marine Ecosystem,HarmoniousCo-existencebetweenHumans andNature" at theMarine Science and Education Museum, and invited children from the No.1 Kindergarten of Guangxi University to participate.Assoc. Prof.Huang Rongyong (Asst.Dean), Huang Xueyong (Secretary of Youth League Committee of College), andAssoc. Prof. Wang Guanghua (Department of Marine Biology and Ecology)attended the event.Teacher Huang Xueyong explained marine knowledge to the children in detail. His explanation sparked their curiosity about the coral world. They carefully followed his rhythm to understand the coral reef ecosystem step by step, and quietly ignited their dreams of marine science while exploring the mysteries of the ocean together.
Teacher Huang Xueyong gave a lecture
On June 15 and 22, the college held the "Open Day" activity at theMarine Science and Education Museumof Guangxi University. The museum was open to the public for free and offered educational public welfare marine science lectures with total of more than 300 people visited on that day.
Volunteers of the Science Popularization Group give public welfare explanations to the public
Theseries of activities forthe"World Oceans Day”activities have aroused widespread attention from the society. So far, more than 10 media have reported it, including ChinaNews, People Daily, China Education News Network, China Youth Daily, Guangxi TV, Nanfang Morning Post, and China News Service Guangxi. The total number of reports has exceeded 30 times with views exceeded 600,000 times. Discussions on Weibo with World Oceans Day as the keyword, have surpassed 4 million, with over 6 million interactions.The World Oceans Day series activities effectively popularized marine knowledge to the public, raised awareness about Marine Conservation and enhanced thepublic marine awareness andwisdom of harmonious co-existencebetween humans and nature.
(Textby: Yu Shangke, Yao Shuang, Huang Xueyong,Photoby:the Schoolof Marine Sciences)
