Student strives to stave off spread of sand By MA JINGNA in Lanzhou and YE ZIZHEN | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2021-01-26 08:41 Share
Passion leads Shanghai man to create organization to fight desertification
Liu Zhizhuo juggles life as a graduate student, the founder of an environmental organization and a volunteer in the fight against desertification.
Liu, 23, studies environmental science at Shanghai Jiaotong University.
He was honored as one of the Most Beautiful Chinese College Students of 2020 by the Ministry of Education. Only 10 students are given this honor nationwide.
Since 2016, his sophomore year, Liu has been growing plants in Minqin county, which is surrounded by the Badain Jaran and Tengger deserts, in Gansu province.
Passion leads Shanghai man to create organization to fight desertification
Liu Zhizhuo juggles life as a graduate student, the founder of an environmental organization and a volunteer in the fight against desertification.
Liu, 23, studies environmental science at Shanghai Jiaotong University.
He was honored as one of the Most Beautiful Chinese College Students of 2020 by the Ministry of Education. Only 10 students are given this honor nationwide.
Since 2016, his sophomore year, Liu has been growing plants in Minqin county, which is surrounded by the Badain Jaran and Tengger deserts, in Gansu province.
During the summer of 2016, after a 24-hour train journey and a six-hour drive, Liu and eight of his peers from the university finally arrived in Minqin－2,360 kilometers from Shanghai－for the first time.