Time: Sept 22, 2018
Source: People's Daily
Publisher: News Center

People's Daily devoted two-third of a page to a report on the Leizhou Youth Canal written by Prof. Yu Jixin of JNU's School of Journalism and Communication on Sept. 19.

（China Daily）

In 1958, 300,000 people under 35 from Zhanjiang City began to build Leizhou Youth Canal, which took 14 months to complete. As the largest public project in Zhangzhou City, the canal was China's largest hydropower project in the 1950s and is still the biggest in Guangdong.

（Leizhou Youth Canal in 1958）

This year is the 60th anniversary of the construction of the canal, known as the mother canal for the daily and productive water use of over 4 million people in Zhanjiang. The canal has not only relieved the traditional severe drought of Leizhou Peninsula, but also brought vitality there, making it an education center for patriotic red culture and an eco-civilization demonstration base in Guangdong, as well as a national ecological scenic spot. In April Yu was specially invited to do interviews and report on the project by the publicity department of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and the Zhanjiang Municipal Party Committee.

(Today's Canal)

Yu has also been invited to lead students in doing in-depth interviews on the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, the world's longest cross-sea bridge, and is writing a book on documentary literature to be published this year.

（Yu on speech）