From campus to countryside
China DailyClockwise from right: The student exploration team from the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics visits the sweet potato planting base in Ziyun, Guizhou. During high school, when Zhang Yuehui first arrived in Ziyun, a Miao-Bouyei autonomous county in Southwest China's Guizhou province, he encountered a region struggling with poverty. "It allows us to step out of our schools and into rural areas to see firsthand how China's rural revitalization efforts are making a difference," Zhang said. In an interview with Ziyun's agriculture and rural affairs bureau, 20-year-old Jin Yuxin learned that agricultural production contributes to more than 60 percent of the county's GDP. Although he didn't participate in field visits, he used Python, a computer programming language, to analyze data collected by his team, along with information from Ziyun's official website and news reports.