Taizhou University’s “Youth · Meet: A Dialogue Across Time and Space,” was successfully entered the 2024 list of exemplary integrated-media projects in Zhejiang education released by News Office of Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education and Zhejiang Education Publicity Center. It is the first time a news report from the university has been included. This highlights the pivotal role of its integrated-media work in serving the central tasks of the CPC Party and the institution, especially its reach and impact in ideo-political education and the transmission of revolutionary spirit.

Youth · Meet: A Dialogue Across Time and Space

To thoroughly implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, deepen comprehensive educational reform, and improve the mechanisms for fostering virtue through education, Taizhou University has focused on enhancing the “Project of Cultivating New Era Talents.” Guided by the spirit of the university’s Fourth Party Congress, the university has vigorously promoted and carried forward the Reclamation Spirit of Dachen Island.

Based on the university’s historical research on the reclamation deeds and theoretical interpretation of the Reclamation Spirit, a faculty-student creative team developed the original full-length drama “Youth · Meet,” using the reclamation stories of Dachen Island as the prototype. The drama skillfully intertwines Taizhou University’s “Walking Ideo-political Classroom” with the stories of the first volunteer youth who landed on the island in 1956. It vividly portrays how the older generation nurtured the Reclamation Spirit with their youth and sweat, and how contemporary university students uphold this spirit, inherit the revolutionary legacy, and carry it forward through generations, inspiring students to inherit the “Aspiration of Reclamation.”

Before and after the drama was performed university-wide, the university launched related news coverage and video highlights across its official news website, WeChat public account, radio, and other new media platforms. This effort further showcases TU’s distinctive approach to ideological education, extending its offline impact online and reaching broader audiences with the revolutionary legacy. It also attracted representatives of teachers and students from primary, secondary, and tertiary institutions across the city to observe this “dialogue across time” between the new-era reclamation pioneers and the old reclamation team members.

Moving forward, the university will deepen efforts to build the “Youth · Meet” campus cultural brand. By engaging both on and off campus, we will expand resources for disseminating the “Aspiration of Reclamation.” Through diverse formats such as short videos, live streams, and featured reports, we will comprehensively showcase the growth stories of TU’s youth and present a new chapter of vitality in Zhejiang’s education landscape.