How are these college students the most beautiful? ---Recipients of the "Most Beautiful College Students" Award of 2020

Recently, the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the Ministry of Education jointly released the roster of the "Most Beautiful College Students" of 2020. Let us see how these students embraced their youth with the most beautiful attitude, and how they greeted the challenges of the new era in the name of their youth.

Deliver selfless warmth through fearlessness and sense of responsibility

On the night of March 10, 2019, in the Huajiang campus of Guilin University of Electronic Technology, students Cui Yiwen and Liang went back to the dormitory together after fishing their studies.

Unexpectedly, they encountered an attacker with a knife in hand. To protect her schoolmate from the attacker, Cui suffered eight stabs. Even when she was experiencing a large amount of blood loss, she was still worried about Liang: "Someone help her stop the blood, I can't support myself anymore."

A girl who at ordinary times would scream out of pain when having her ears pierced was fearless in front of the attacker: "I am a soldier's child. I only know that if I didn't confront him, she (Liang) may die."

Yu Tingting, a student at the Chongqing College of Finance and Economics, took up the responsibility of taking care of her sick foster father and her entire family in an adverse situation.

In 2018, after Yu received the admission letter from her school, she decided to take her foster father with her. With a monthly rent of 100 yuan, Yu rented a room of less than 10 square meters, and began a daily routine of going to school, the rental room, and the hospital.

When others have fallen asleep, she is still studying. Not only is she not behind on her studies, Yu also participates in the volunteer communities within and outside of school. She tutors homework for stay-at-home children and passes her kindness to them.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Yu Minghan, student at the Flying College of Beihang University, was in Wuhan, and immediately signed up as a community volunteer for the "Caring action of volunteer service program." He recorded the information of residents and their demands, commuted everywhere to buy daily supplies and delivered them to the residential buildings, and often worked until midnight.

To the residents, he went from being a volunteer to being "Master Yu", and used his service to become the splendor of spring which warmed Wuhan and warmed everyone.

Carry forward the fighting spirit at the front line of the anti-epidemic battle

To leave or to stay? On January 22, 2020, Zhao Dong, doctoral student at the First Clinical College of Wuhan University, was supposed to go back to his hometown after the last outpatient service. After hearing that the COVID-19 pandemic has the characteristic of "human-to-human transmission", he withdrew his train ticket and stayed in Wuhan, "in these dangerous times I should be together with the patients!"

Zhao asked for an assignment to Guanggu hospital to receive and treat patients suffering from critical conditions from the virus. For over 120 days and nights, Zhao forgot about time and fought on the front line.

Half of the time, Zhao also provided online medical consultation services to stay-home quarantine groups of over 200 people at two communities in Wuhan. The community residents intimately referred to Zhao as "Doctor Zhao."

When Zhao was fighting on the front line, Ni Jie, a doctoral student at the Nanjing Medical University, came to Wuhan on February 13 with the medical team from Jiangsu Province.

"Please let me try, give me a chance to learn." This was Ni's pet phrase. Under the heavy mask, her head is dizzy and her chest is distressed. Her sweat wetted her clothes and the skin on her hands were peel off. The eye-protection goggles caused her face to be heavily scarred.

Yet, "I am extremely happy when I see patients turn the corner after treatments. Our purpose of coming here is to help patients walk out of the hospital in a healthy state and return to their calm lives," says Ni.

Contribute to the regions where the nation needs the most support

Piercing cold wind chills on the highland, sizzling heat is unbearable in the desert. Liu Zhizhuo, postgraduate student in the School of Environmental Science and Engineering of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, led eight students to the desert in 2018, which was more desolate and impoverished than they had imagined. In the daytime, they conduct desertification control, where they are up against the burning sun and need to beware of sandstorms. In the nighttime, they can only live in tents that are temporarily set up.

For five years, Liu continued with desertification control without stopping. He is also a member of the 21st Shanghai Jiao Tong University postgraduate students' teaching team, where he delivered knowledge and assisted impoverished students in Erhai City of Yunnan Province.

Similar with Liu, Li Sha, a bachelor’s student who graduated from the School of Journalism and Community at South China University of Technology in 2019, was also part of a teaching team. She was teaching at the Longsheng Elementary School of Multinational Autonomous County of Longsheng, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, before her death.

In the "Longsheng one-on-one" student caring project, Li personally requested to go to the most remote region of Sanmen Town. The road to Sanmen is very far, where to visit the schoolchildren’s homes from the county seat would take one and a half hours by car, with an additional two hours by foot on rugged mountain road, tramping over hill and dale. Li’s bravery and dedication earned her the nickname "Sister Sha" from her students and teammates.

Li left her valuable life on the land she fought for, but her story is motivating more students to join the "youthful relay", to dedicate themselves to the development of the western regions, and to contribute their strength to the regions that the nation needs the most support.

Contributed by Yang Sa, Jin Haotian, reporters of Guangming Daily

Translated by Zhang Junye