Trips take learning out of classroom

For Chongming High School student Zhu Yuechen, "ecological civilization" was a term he learned but never really understood, until this summer.

In July, he and 16 schoolmates visited Beipu Wind Farm, one of five wind power stations on Shanghai's Chongming Island.

Located in the eastern estuary of the Yangtze River, Chongming Island, the third largest island in China, is home to an assortment of natural parks, wetlands and ecological villages. It will become a world-class ecological zone by 2050, setting a new bench mark in the protection of the ecological system along the Yangtze River, according to Shanghai's development master plan for 2017-35.