To celebrate the International Labour Day and advocating the spirit that practice makes perfect, Tianjin University designated May as the Labour Education Month and set up a Labour week to carry out a series of themed activities.

Labour Education Month launched at TJU

On Wudadao District, or the Five Great Avenues, students from the School of Architecture are displaying their drawings of Tianjin City.

“Along the lake shore on old campus, we created a duck nest using water bottles, plastic pipes and twines, thus combining labor practice with environmental creativity”, said Qiankun Zhao, a student counselor from the School of Architecture. The recent internet sensation “Lucky Goose” was also a work of the School’s Come & Do Studio, which operates under the guidance of professors from the School of Architecture and makes micro-renovation of roads, libraries, lakes, and open spaces on the campus based on the school’s Installation Art and Environmental Facilities course.

The picture shows the micro-landscapes made out of wastes by teachers and students from Come & Do Studio.

Undergraduate students in the course of Installation Art and Environmental Facilities makes a Lucky Goose model that goes viral on campus.

At the “Baicao Garden”, a herbal medicine plantationon on Weijin Road campus, teachers and students were immersed in learning herbal cultivation and fabrication. Professor Xia Li, who teaches the course Innovative Practices in Chinese Herbal Medicine Cultivation and is an instructor of labor education at the School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, was guiding students step-by-step on how to cultivate the land, while also explaining the medicinal properties and efficacy of the herb Astragalus which originated from Tanchang County in China’s Gansu Province. Based on the course she teaches, Professor Li also established a volunteer group to disseminate traditional Chinese medicine culture and engaged her students in supporting the development of herbal industry in Tanchang, bringing professional knowledge from the university to the countryside.

Students on the field course Innovative Practices in Chinese Herbal Medicine Cultivation

The Fourth Anatomical Drawing Contest wasin full swing, with students from the Medical School participating enthusiastically. The future doctors transformed the human body structures they learned in class into beautiful artworks, infusing their love and care as medical professionals into their creations.

Tianjin University has always attached great importance to labor education. Through flagship activities such as "Labor Week", "Labor Education Month" and the "Labor Education Empowerment and Strength Plan", the university has developed 34 elective courses and 26 extracurricular courses focused on labor education. Additionally, 31 on- and off-campus labor education practice bases have been established to facilitate yearly activities such as crop and herbal medicine cultivation, fruit picking, professional internships and living skills competition in dormitories. These initiatives provide practical platforms for "labor plus life", "labor plus professionalism" and "labor plus public welfare" through institutional, curricular, practical, and cultural empowerment. These efforts aim to foster patriotism and responsibilityin students, encouraging them to participate in the practice of Chinese modernization.

By Li Jiaqi

Editor: Eva Yin