On November 15th, the final evaluation of the 6th China Youth Volunteer Service Project Competition came to an end, and the secretariat of the organizing committee of the competition announced the list of winners, among which the “Happy Pomegranate Seeds” – Cultural Runjiang “Five Views” education volunteer service project initiated by Mina Studio in Beilun District, Ningbo won the national gold award.
The gold award won this time is the first national gold award won by Zhejiang Province’s practical exploration of forging the sense of the Chinese national community-Zhijiang Concentric Pomegranate Red Brand, and it is also the only project dedicated to the growth of ethnic minority teenagers in all the gold award projects in the country.
In recent years, Ningbo has taken “the Chinese nation as a family, building the Chinese dream together” as the goal, with the awareness of the Chinese national community as the main line, and fully promoted the innovation and development of the cause of national unity and progress, and has formed a number of national brands of ethnic work, such as “four micro” working method, “five-in-one” coordination mechanism, “Mina studio”, ethnic work standardization, and digital intelligence of ethnic affairs governance.
In order to enable young people of all ethnic groups to plant the seeds of “Love Me China” in their hearts and take root from an early age, Ningbo has actively explored a new practical path to forge a sense of Chinese national community among young people of all ethnic groups through the establishment of a “school-place co-construction” and “five-in-one” coordination mechanism. Relying on the “Mina Studio”, focusing on the “immersion” growth of students of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang, adhering to the educational service concept of “casting souls and educating people to cultivate family and national feelings, and cultivating virtue to help grow into talents”, it is committed to the exploration of ideological education and value guidance carriers of ethnic minority students, and promotes the unity and unity of students of all ethnic groups in ideals, beliefs, emotions and culture.
“Happy Pomegranate Seeds”, a cultural “Five Views” education volunteer service project, was initiated and implemented in 2014 under the guidance of the Ningbo Citizen Sect Department and with “Mina Studio” as the main body. Based on the volunteer service mode of “on-site education, case analysis, practical experience, and leading by example”, the project starts from the three levels of “seeing, hearing, and understanding”, and through “civilization cultivation”, “love cultivation” and “unity cultivation”, the project deeply carries out the “five views” education of national view, historical view, ethnic view, religious view, and cultural view for young people of all ethnic groups, especially those of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang, effectively promotes cultural exchanges and mutual learning, further promotes harmonious integration, and constantly forges the sense of community of the Chinese nation, from “teaching me to integrate” to Help me integrate” and then “drive others to integrate together”, forming a three-in-one volunteer service circle of “integration, help and lead”, and forming a closed loop of the three service circles of the service object, fully realizing the dual functions of “helping others” and “educating people”, while promoting the volunteer spirit of dedication, friendship, mutual assistance and progress, combining care and helping ethnic teenagers to grow into talents with guiding them to participate in social services and dedication to love enthusiasm, and promoting ideological development and personality growth in practice. Help national youth grow into qualified successors of socialist construction and transmit positive energy!
Since the launch of the project, a total of 670 missions and education services have been carried out, with more than 5,000 hours of volunteer service, covering 5 autonomous prefectures, 7 regions and 49 (district) counties across the country, and more than 50,000 people have been radiated. The project has won 9 provincial and municipal commendations and awards, and the project members have won honors such as “Good People of China”, Model Individual of National Unity and Progress in Zhejiang Province, “Advanced Individual of Youth Volunteer Service to Fight the New Crown Epidemic” by the Central Committee of the Youth League, and “Advanced Individual in Volunteer Service in the Most Beautiful Campaign” in Zhejiang Province.