Students take part in biodiversity camp

For two and a half days, Wang Shuyue examined different plants along a 4-kilometer river that flows through Dongwu village near the Qiandao Lake (Thousand Island Lake) in East China's Zhejiang province.

Together with her teammates from the environmental engineering faculty at Zhejiang University, Wang identified 209 species of trees, shrubs and grass. They then wrote a 100-page report about the local vegetation for the villagers.

Wang was part of just one of many teams at the July 21-27 biodiversity summer camp for youths that was jointly held by the local government and the Zhejiang Environmental Protection Association. More than 50 students from 10 universities participated in the camp.