People's Daily - Jiangxi Channel
In 2020, the country's first undergraduate major in "Tourism Geoscience and Planning Engineering" will be settled at East China University of Technology, and enrollment will begin this fall. Professor Chen Anze, 87, stayed up all night excitedly. As the founder of the Department of Tourism Geoscience and the Honorary President of the Tourism Geosciences and Geopark Research Branch of the Geological Society of China, he specially wrote an article "Inserting Earth Science Wings for Tourism" to share this unforgettable moment with his peers, "This is a landmark event, which will lay a solid foundation for cultivating geoscience research and tourism talents, and will be of great benefit to the protection of geological landscape resources, the popularization of geological knowledge, and the promotion of tourism on the road of 'scientific tourism'." ”
It is equipped with a new engineering "fast train" to strengthen the construction of tourism geography disciplines
As the domestic and foreign geological and mineral industry market continues to slump, the demand for geological talents to enter the new economy, new technologies, new industries and other fields continues to expand. Geological tourism resources are increasingly favored by geologists due to their good natural scenery and high scientific content, and the news that the Ministry of Education promoted the "new engineering construction" in 2017 is even more exciting, bringing dawn to the long-term "cold" geologists. Liu Hesheng, secretary of the party committee of the school, said, "The approval of the undergraduate major of 'Tourism Geoscience and Planning Engineering' is another fruitful result of the training of geological talents in the school. We must carry the new engineering 'fast car', expand the connotation of geological professional development, create new growth points for professional development, promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional geological majors to the direction of tourism geography, and let the geology major 'fire' up again, and the geological talents 'live'. ”
How to cultivate multidisciplinary vision and cross-border integration ability of tourism geography students? Tung WAH's managers have made some explorations. As early as 2015, the school began to cultivate undergraduate talents in tourism geography. In 2017, the school relied on the physical geography and resource environment major to create an innovative experimental class of "Tourism Geography" (that is, the predecessor of the "Tourism Geography and Planning Engineering" major), and carried out a useful exploration of the training of composite cross-type tourism geography engineering and technical talents in "Geology Geography and Tourism Management".
As a veteran geological college, East China University of Technology integrates the superior resources of the School of Earth Sciences, the School of Geophysics and Measurement and Control Technology, the School of Surveying and Mapping Engineering, the School of Information Engineering, and the School of Economics and Management to form a new engineering education center. At the same time, the school integrates the knowledge system of geological relics, geographical environment, human history, landscape aesthetics, tourism planning, etc., formulates a talent training program for tourism geology and establishes a corresponding professional course group.
The school is also continuously improving professional development and discipline construction, striving to form an ecological chain integrating tourism, industry and education, promoting eco-tourism with geological culture, and helping the promotion and popularization of tourism geography. "The opening of tourism geology and planning engineering majors will provide a model for other universities to set up the same major in the future, and will also provide strong support for the transformation and upgrading of geological and mineral resources." Xu Deru, dean of the School of Earth Sciences, said. According to reports, the Geological Society of Australia and the world's top geological universities have taken the initiative to contact the school to hope that the two sides will jointly open an international undergraduate, and many domestic universities will also apply for the opening of the undergraduate major of "Tourism Geology and Planning Engineering" next year. Australian universities and domestic universities will cultivate tourism and geography talents in accordance with the professional standards set by the school.
Industry-university-research collaboration educates people to create a new model of talent training
"Because I have had a strong interest in geography and tourism since I was a child, this major has become my first choice for volunteering." Zhou Junxin, a junior in the Tourism Geography Innovation Experimental Class, said, "After entering the school, I am particularly pleased with the cross-integration curriculum. The knowledge background of our teachers is also very diverse, and the management and professional and technical personnel of the scenic spots management committee and the travel company have been invited into the classroom to teach us geology, geography, tourism management, planning and design and other related knowledge with professional teachers. ”
In July 2019, he and 6 other students participated in the field survey and planning of natural protected areas in Qinglan Lake and other places led by experts from various fields, and achieved great results. Zhou Junxin also added that the school has built a field teaching practice base, and they have previously practiced in bases such as Danxia Mountain in Guangzhou, and have a preliminary understanding of geological landforms. In the future, he will also participate in the internship of Jiangshan Industry-University-Research Base, Lushan Mountain, Longhu Mountain, Sanqingshan Global Geopark, World Natural Heritage Site and enterprises.
Focusing on the new demand for talent literacy in the direction of tourism geoscience, the school reasonably sets up practical teaching projects, effectively integrates the practice platforms such as the School Geological Museum, Danxia Mountain Teaching Internship and Scientific Research Base, Longhushan Tourism Geography Internship Base, Jiangxi China National Travel Service, etc., and builds a shared practice platform such as the New Tourism Geoscience Virtual Simulation Experiment Center, and builds a practice platform for industry-university-research collaborative education projects that connect the school, the field and enterprises. At the same time, we will establish a mechanism for integrating scientific research and teaching, industry and teaching, and promote the cooperative learning and practice of students across disciplines, indoors and fields, and schools and enterprises.
With the increasing popularity of the tourism industry, Zhou Junxin is full of confidence in his future employment, "I intend to continue to study for graduate school, because my professional employment is relatively extensive, and in the future, I may engage in tourism planning and design or geological service projects according to my interests." "For undergraduates like Zhou Junxin, the school has been enrolling students for 3 consecutive years and has trained nearly 200 students.
"In fact, at the beginning of this century, the school began to cooperate with other universities to train doctors and masters in tourism geography. For more than 10 years, the school has cultivated more than 30 master's and doctoral talents related to tourism geography, and has formed an integrated training system for undergraduate, master's and doctoral degrees. Ye Changsheng, deputy director of the Academic Affairs Office, introduced. The school will always adhere to the "student-centered, output-oriented", and create a composite talent training mechanism promoted by the "five yuan" cycle of new needs, new directions, new standards, new platforms, and new combinations to meet the needs of new talents in geoscience tourism in the new era of beautiful China, ecological civilization and mass tourism.
Highlight the responsibility of the industry and help the high-quality development of the local economy
In 2010, the highly anticipated Longhu Mountain in Jiangxi Was successfully inscribed on the World Heritage List as one of the six areas of "Danxia in China", which attracted worldwide attention. Behind the successful application for the heritage is inseparable from the hard work of Professor Guo Fusheng's team of East China Polytechnic. For decades, Guo Fusheng led the team to carry out the development and protection of Danxia geomorphological tourism, the construction practice of the geopark, the training of tourism management personnel in geological knowledge, and the use of lectures, on-site explanations and network interaction to carry out general education in tourism areas to the public... Nowadays, the scientific value and aesthetic tourism value of Longhu Mountain are becoming increasingly prominent.
"Tourism geoscience and planning engineering is a new engineering major bred by East China University of Technology, which clarifies the development direction of tourism geography and sets up a 'wind vane' for tourism geography, which will surely promote the development of landscape tourism, the construction of ecological civilization and the vigorous development of the new economy." Guo Fusheng said.
In addition, the pace of the school's exploration of "big geology" has never stopped, and the service aspects such as mineral geology and people's livelihood geology have been continuously expanded. For example, the three-dimensional geological survey technology method of the mine collection area pioneered in the project of "Three-dimensional Geological Survey of Xiangshan Volcanic Basin" has been applied by more than 20 units, which has better solved the problems of three-dimensional geological survey and modeling, electromagnetic data processing, etc., and obtained great economic value in uranium ore exploration. Aiming at the characteristics of the typical lakeside alluvial plains and the problem of strong urban interference in Nanchang, it provides directional support for the utilization of urban underground space and disaster prevention and mitigation in Nanchang. Actively participate in the construction of the regional land space basic information platform, and carry out the ecological monitoring and governance of Poyang Lake to promote the construction of ecological civilization in Jiangxi. Focusing on the blueprint for rural revitalization and development, we will take the initiative to undertake scientific and technological poverty alleviation work and help villagers develop nanfeng orange, dragon fruit, tea tree mushroom planting industry.
Over the years, Tung WAH Has gradually formed a "big geology" development concept that brings together the advantages of hydrogeology, engineering geology, environmental geology, tourism geology and other disciplines, promotes multidisciplinary cross-integration, and actively carries out technical services in the fields of urban geology, deep-ground exploration, green mines, mine environmental protection and other fields. Principal Sun Zhanxue said, "The school will continue to adhere to the two banners of 'nuclear' and 'geological' to serve the industry and the region with two wheels, consolidate the foundation for the cultivation of nuclear geoscience talents, provide new sustainable development driving force for the development of Jiangxi, and make greater contributions to building a beautiful Chinese 'Jiangxi model' with practical actions." (Chen Jingjing, Zhu Tianxing)