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.
On November 1st,
Nan Guojun, Secretary of the Party Committee and Yuan Feng, Dean of the School
of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, led
more than 20 teachers to come to Tianzhushan Global Geopark. The two sides held
a discussion meeting and signed a strategic cooperation agreement. Shu Hanbing,
member of the Standing Committee of the Qianshan Municipal Party Committee and
deputy director of Tianzhushan Administrative Committee, attended the meeting,
and the relevant leaders of Tianzhushan Administrative Committee Office,
Tianzhushan Geopark Administrative Center, Tianzhushan Tourism Development Co.,
Ltd. participated in the meeting. Yuan Feng and Shu Hanbing signed the agreement
on behalf of both parties.
On behalf of
Tianzhushan, Shu Hanbing delivered a welcome speech and introduced the relevant
situation of Tianzhushan Global Geopark. He said that Tianzhushan attached
great importance to cooperation with universities, carried out a number of
cooperation projects and achieved a series of results. Since 1950s, Hefei
University of Technology had carried out geological survey in Tianzhushan,
Professor Xu Jiawei as a representative of geologists from Hefei University of
Technology carried out decades of scientific research work in Tianzhushan, made
a very important contribution to the geological research of Tianzhushan. He
hoped that the two sides would follow up in the scientific research, internship
teaching, capacity building and other aspects of cooperation, which would
become a model and highlight of the cooperation between universities and the
Global Geoparks, and promote the high-quality development of Tianzhushan Global
Geopark.
Dean Yuan Feng
introduced the relevant situation of the School of Resources and Environmental
Engineering, and said that Tianzhushan Global Geopark had world-class geoheritages,
while Hefei University of Technology had strong scientific research
capabilities, and the two sides would further strengthen cooperation on the
basis of the agreement, give full play to the advantages of Hefei University of
Technology in scientific research, technology, talents, etc., and jointly carry
out cooperation in party building, student practice, popular science activities,
scientific research projects, etc., and look forward to the two sides working
hand in hand to continuously deepen cooperation, achieve complementary
advantages, and promote common development.
Apart from the
meeting, the representatives visited Tianzhushan Geopark Museum, the granite
landform, Valley Stream cultural park and Yangxiaowu fossil site, etc.