"While eating kiwifruit and listening to experts telling the story of kiwifruit, I feel that kiwifruit here is particularly sweet, and this experience is great.”For Ketrin, an Indonesian undergraduate majoring in economics at Xi'an Jiaotong University, this is definitelyan unforgettable experience.From May 18th to 19th, Ketrin and nearly 100 students of 32 countriesfrom nine universities in Shaanxi Province participated in a special social practice and cultural experience activity ——"Explore China-Rural Rejuvenation”.

International students visit the Kiwifruit test station

　　At the Kiwifruit Experimental Demonstration Station of NWAFU in Qinghua Village, Hengqu Town, Mei County, the international students were very interested in learning about the "last kilometer in the field”mode of school-land joint agricultural technology extension, which is composed of school experts, local agricultural technical cadres, professional farmers and fruit growers, as well as learning about the technology of kiwifruit experimental station in the aspects of garden construction management, pest control, scientific fertilization, storage and processing.Professor Yang Kaibao, a kiwifruit expert at the station, is busy answering questions from international students."The‘NWAFU Golden Kiwifruit’ you are now tasting is a new variety cultivated byNorthwest A&F University. It belongs to the Chinese kiwifruit and grows north of the Qinling Mountains. It is rich in nutrients, sweet and delicious, and has many health effects.”

　　Before visiting the Kiwifruit Experimental Station, the international students listened to Dr.Zhang Bangbang from the College of Economics and Management of NWAFU, who gave a special report on "Strategic Objectives and Paths of Implementing Rural Revitalization in China”, exchanged face-to-face interactions with NWAFU agricultural experts on precise poverty alleviation, rural land reclamation, management mode of agricultural cooperatives and distribution of farmers'interests, rural medical reform and tax and fee reduction and exemption, etc., and understood the significance of China's implementation of the "rural revitalization” strategy to solve the current urban-rural development gap.

Face-to-face communication with agricultural experts

　　During this period, the international students also visited and inspected the Museum Garden, the Agricultural Science and Technology Promotion Exhibition and Jiangjiazhai, a beautiful village in Yangling supported by NWAFU experts. They learned about the history of Chinese agriculture, experienced the achievements of modern agricultural science and technology, and felt the tremendous changes brought about by China's reform and opening up and the strategy of "rural revitalization”.

　　The "Explore China-Rural Revitalization” social practice and cultural experience activitywas sponsored by the National Scholarship Fund Management Committee and hosted by NWAFU. This year is the second year, and the purpose is to enable more international students, especially the"Belt and Road” students to have a comprehensive and objective understanding of China's national conditions,to pay attention to China's development as well as the "three rural issues”, to understand"rural revitalization”, and to promote the education of "knowing China and befriending China”for international students.

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