Fighting the “Epidemic” Together to Build a Warm Campus

(Reported by Hu Xinyue and Ren Keying) On the evening of April 22, two positive cases of COVID-19 were found in Xitou Village around China University of Geosciences, and the campus entered a critical phase of epidemic prevention and control. In order to timely interrupt the transmission chain within the University and ensure the lives and health of all students, faculty and staff, the university party committee attached great importance to and unified the deployment of a series of epidemic prevention and control work, including the six-day nucleic acid testing for all staff and students from 23rd to 28th.

In order to protect the health of more than 30,000 students and teachers, campus safety and teaching order of the University, the front-line epidemic prevention and control personnel were facing very high pressure and challenges. The students were very moved to see their hard work and sweat-soaked backs when they did the nucleic acid testing every day. It was because of their stepping forward to fight on the front line of campus prevention and control that they had given students and teachers a sense of security. For this reason, the Gravity Creative Team of the Aesthetic Practice Center of the School of Arts and Communication also sent a warmth and blessing to the frontline staff in their own way during the special period, contributing their own strength as much as they could.

On the afternoon of April 26 and 28, under the leadership of Mr. Jianhua Bian, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of the School of Arts and Communication and Mr. Hu Wenqin, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of the School of Foreign Languages, a dozen members of "Gravity", an university student innovation and entrepreneurship team of CUG, sent hand-written greeting cards, more than 100 sets of featured creative products and milk tea drinks to the medical staff, volunteers and security guards in the North and East Quarters to express their respect and gratitude to them. In the hot, humid and stormy weather, the Gravity team hoped that this small gesture would make them feel the warmth and affection of the CUG students.

The team members also benefited a lot from this activity. They said: As students of CUG, we know that the epidemic prevention and control on campus cannot be carried out in an orderly manner without the joint efforts of the whole university, especially the medical staff, volunteer teachers and security guards who are fighting against the epidemic on a daily basis. We saw their sweat-soaked clothes under their protective clothing; we saw their hands covered with disinfectant alcohol under their gloves; we saw them busy packing up their nucleic acid reagent tubes and protective suits after finishing their nucleic acid testing work without having time to change their clothes, have a drink or a meal; we saw the volunteer teachers entering information for students under the hot sun and rain; we saw the security guards standing by as the first line of defense for campus epidemic prevention and control. “There are no heroes who fall from the sky, only mortals who step forward”. As a university student, in addition to strictly abiding by the epidemic prevention and control requirements of the University, we also want to do something for those who came forward and let them feel some of the warmth we bring while working.

We also call on the students to abide by the relevant requirements of university epidemic prevention and control, adhere to the principle of "not going out unless necessary", perform the corresponding leave reporting procedures in case of going out, protect them well and do their own things, which is the greatest support and help for epidemic prevention and control!

We are walking in a special spring, and a little drop of light can become a sea of stars. May the world be at peace after all these ups and downs; and may the end of the epidemic, the world is as before!

Editor’s note: As a creative team of the Aesthetic Practice Center of the School of Arts and Communication, “Gravity” is a school-based cultural brand created by a group of students mainly from the School of Arts and Communication, covering School of Earth Sciences, Gemmological Institute, School of Foreign Languages, School of Engineering, School of Economics and Management, and Institute of Geophysics & Geomatics. The products include campus culture featured products and cultural creative services. “Gravity” is committed to being the producer and practitioner of the dissemination of aesthetic culture by influencing the clothing, food, housing and behavior of each CUG student.