On September 30th, organized by Xinhua News Agency, sponsored by Anji County of Huzhou City, Xinhua News Agency Brand Work Office, Xinhua News Agency Zhejiang Branch, and with Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics as the host, the first session of the “Liangshan Cup” National College Creation and Entrepreneurship Competition for Rural Revitalization was a great success. The NEFU group from Department of Town and Country Planning of the College of Landscape Architecture won first prize in the Creative Track. The group was consisted of instructors Song Haihong, Sun Ming, Wan Ting and postgraduate students Li Yifan, Zhang Xin, Ren Qimeng, Tang Jingnan, Gao Jibo, Xu Tiange and Lu Jiaqi who are majoring in Town and Country Planning. The name of their work was ‘The planning and design program of a National Defense Education Park in Dianfang Village-Flourishing military spirit and shining eco-environment in a flourishing county.
The Creative Track of the competition chose 114 issues that embrace village planning, village culture and creativity and humanities and public welfare from 28 counties and 47 townships of 12 provinces. In the end, this track gained 657 proposals from 187 universities around the world. The competition opened for registration in early April, with preliminary results submitted in July and final results judged in September. After multiple rounds of research and expert guidance, 20 first prize plans, 30 second prize plans, 50 third prize and 97 excellence awards were set apart. The competition provided students with a chance to show their innovative enthusiasm and promote rural revitalization and the development of ecological civilization through their hard work.
Located in a corner of the Taihang Mountains in Fuping County, Baoding City, Hebei Province, Dianfang Village once had an historical of battle in the Jinchaji Border Region where several revolutionary martyrs and a strong red cultural atmosphere emerged. In early July, the group, led by Professor Song, researched in Dianfang Village. They found that there was potential to build a ‘Red Shop House’ and develop regional tourism in Dianfang Village. There were existing issues like insufficient utilization of red cultural resources, a lack of integrated service facilities and a low integration of industry. Therefore, plans should be aimed at promoting red culture, national defense education and service facilities and committed to establishing a featured experiential national defense education theme park with red cultural education as the main focus and military program experience and eco-tourism as the secondary focuses.
In this inaugural competition, the number of participating universities and works hit a new high. The NEFU projects were chosen from among 657 national plans in the Creative Track and entered in the finals. The plan was finally chosen as one of 20 works to earn a first prize.
