Time: August 17, 2017 

Author: Huang Qiancheng

Publisher: News Center

This summer, an undergraduate team named "Reach for Source & Root" from the School of Humanities at JNU's Zhuhai campus traveled to Danian Township in Rongshui County of Liuzhou City in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. There the team members investigated the impact of tourism development on the quality of water for agricultural and domestic users. Along with college students from around the world, Wha San Antonio Chong Yi, a Chinese student from Peru, and Liang Sheng, an undergraduate of Miao nationality, tramped over hill and dale, surveyed the development status of local tourism, and spread the concept of sustainable development to local residents. The team discovered a "mystery" within the civilized development of the local ecotourism industry, which is closely linked with the flourishing of international philanthropy.

 (Miao Village in Danian Township, Rongshui County)

 (The "Reach for Source & Root" undergraduate team interviewing and investigating)

(The team collecting water samples)

 (The team taking group photos with French activists)

For 19 years, the French civil charity organization Color Association has established schools and provided educational aid to promote education for minority girls in the Miao region on the border of Guangxi and Guizhou. In recent years, a growing number of foreign donors have been learning about the region through international charities like Color Association, and as they inspected local charity work, a new model of tourism was gradually formed.