Students from Shanghai Ocean University once again won the special prize in the National College Students Aquascaping Competition!

The annual college aquarium event, the 8th National College Student Aquascaping Skills Competition, was held from November 1st to November 3rd at Huazhong Agricultural University

In the competition, the contestants showed their skills by using landscaping materials such as stones, sunken trees, and rhododendron roots to carefully construct stunning aquarium skeletons in corresponding sized aquariums. Their solid skeleton construction skills and creative artistic conception allow us to fully appreciate the unique charm of aquatic landscape design.

Sun Zheng, vice dean of the School of Fisheries and Life Sciences, and experimentalist Xu Can led 7 teams to participate in the competition and won 2 special prizes, 1 first prize and 3 second prizes.

Professor Li Jiale, Director of the Higher Education Aquatic Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, was invited to deliver a speech at the opening ceremony of the competition.

Sun Zheng introduced Shanghai Ocean University's measures to cultivate practical ability of talents in aquatic science and technology at the Aquatic Innovation Talent Training Summit Forum held at the same time as this competition.

The 8th National College Student Aquascaping Skills Competition is based on the purpose of "practice, progress, development, and innovation". It stimulates students' professional integration thinking from the new perspective of "ecology + art" and demonstrates students' professional wisdom. This competition started in early September with the theme of "Nature•Symbiosis". It encourages college students to build a skeleton with landscape materials such as sunken wood, azalea roots, and Qinglong stone, and match them with various colorful water plants and ornamental fish to create exquisite and gorgeous aquatic landscapes. The competition is divided into four tracks: large tank group, medium tank group, small tank group, and water and land tank group. After more than one month of careful maintenance of water plants and plants, each school will select high-quality works from the high-quality works of the school competition to participate in the national finals. This competition attracted 35 universities with aquatic and aquarium majors from all over the country to participate. A total of more than 2,700 teams registered for the competition, of which 209 teams entered the national finals.

The school's aquarium science and technology major was opened in 2003 and was rated as a national first-class major. It has always attached great importance to the cultivation of students' practical and innovative abilities. By designing a series of practical courses and competitions, the theoretical teaching is closely combined with practical training activities and experimental practical teaching, and the cultivation of innovative abilities is realized throughout the entire professional talent training process, which has established a training model for applied innovative talents in aquatic majors.