Nearly one million students from about 100 universities and
colleges across the country are to become volunteers to protect the
environment, the "China Youth Daily" has reported.
The volunteers are expected to take part in various activities
designed to protect the environment and improve environmental
protection awareness across the country.
In
Beijing, students at the Beijing Forestry University introduced a
garbage recycling system to their dormitories, the first of its
kind on campus in China.
In
Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu province, students have
taken sample water from different sections of the polluted Qinhuai
River which runs through the city, and have shown them to local
residents to promote their environmental protection awareness.
Students in Fudan University in Shanghai, Lanzhou University in
northwest China's Gansu
Province, and elsewhere helped local people to fill out cards
committing them to protect the environment.
(Xinhua News
Agency June 8, 2002)