April 22, 2024 is the 55th World Earth Day, and the theme of this year's Earth Day is "Planet vs. Plastics". In order to thoroughly study and implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, publicize Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, guide the whole society to establish the concept of ecological civilization of "respecting nature, conforming to nature, and protecting nature", promote the construction of beautiful Qianshan, and jointly build an earth home where man and nature coexist in harmony, Tianzhushan Global Geopark, Anqing Qianshan Ecological Environment Branch and Qianshan Pailou Central Primary School jointly carried out the 55th "World Earth Day" and the 5th Asia-Pacific Geopark Week Science Popularization Campaign. In the form of museum-school cooperation and joint construction and common benefit, Tianzhushan Geopark will give full play to the social education function of the museum and jointly build a "second classroom" for popular science education.
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order to stimulate students' interest in exploring the unknown world, enhance
their enthusiasm for learning and loving sciences, further enhance the ideal of
young people to serve the country with science and technology, cultivate the
spirit of science, and enhance their innovation ability, on the evening of
November 19, Tianzhushan UGGp invited Mr. Wang Yuanqing, a researcher from the
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese
Academy of Sciences, to enter Yezhai Senior Middle School to give a popular
science lecture with the theme of "Understanding Bones in Red Stones "
to the second-year high school students.
From
the perspectives of "what are bones in red stones " and "the
significance of studying bones in red stones ", researcher Wang Yuanqing
introduced the stratigraphy and common types of Qianshan paleontological
fossils to the students in details.
It is reported that from November 11th to 20th, researcher Wang Yuanqing and his entourage came to Tianzhushan UGGp to carry out research projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Chinese Academy of Sciences to conduct Paleogene stratigraphy and paleontological investigations.
