After our Institute acquired the No. 14 planting site named the “Data Eden”  on March 12 this year, our Institute ’s labor practice special work teacher Ma Lei guided the three majors from the 2020 cohort to establish labor practice groups. The life committees of each class will serve as the group leaders, and the three classes will take on the responsibility for cultivating and planting three days per week.

Under the guidance of Mrs. Ma Lei and the university’s logistics teachers, the students in the labor practice group of our Institute took care of the “Data Eden” carefully. They finished seeding, erecting plastic sheeting and putting up a shelf under the leadership of the group leader. The students insisted on going to the planting site every week to check the growth of the seedlings, loosen the soil, carry out weeding, clean up the remaining branches and leaves, monitor the soil quality, and help ensure the water, oxygen, sunlight and other nutritional conditions required for the growth of the seedlings.

The weather is getting hotter and hotter. Every time the students sweat profusely. However, after seeing the green seedlings sticking out their heads, the students are very happy.

You can only taste the sweetness of the fruits when you work hard with sweat. On the afternoon of June 2nd, the students of the labor team arrived at the planting site and surprisingly found that the "Data Eden" was already full of the fruits of their labor, and the huge and plump cucumbers were hanging among the vines, waiting for the students to pick them!

The students harvested their crop with excitement and pride and together with the teacher, talking and laughing. “This process is really healing and wonderful. It's like you paid out your sweat and protected them nurtured them daily. In the end, they returned to you with a harvest and irreplaceable satisfaction.” said one of the members of the Labor Practice Group.

Editor: MA Lei

Proofreading: LIU Xiaona