New Youth, Saving Lives Around Us

  Recently, the “New Youth, Saving Lives Around Us” emergency first aid knowledge and skills competition for college students in Sichuan province concluded at Chengdu Polytechnic. Participating universities included Sichuan Normal University, Southwest Petroleum University, Southwest Medical University, Chengdu University of Technology, and others. Among them, our team won the first prize.

  This event has received great attention. Under the theme of “New Youth, Saving Lives Around Us”, the competition included on-site exercises in pre-hospital first aid, basic use of firefighting equipment, and disaster prevention and reduction lectures. A total of 58 representative teams competed on the same stage, demonstrating their proficient emergency first aid knowledge and skills in simulated scenarios of traffic accidents, fires, earthquakes, campus stampedes, drowning incidents, and landslides displayed on 6 LED screens. The event showcased the solid self-help and mutual-aid abilities of young students in emergency rescue operations.

  Our team consisted of 10 students, who were from the School of Physical Education and the School of Journalism and Communication. Jin Lang and Song Jinglin from the School of Physical Education served as the team’s instructors. Since receiving the notification about the competition, the school’s leadership attached great importance to it and provided support in terms of policies and funding. During the training process, both the faculty and students spared no effort, with team members handling various pressures, actively training, and preparing diligently. They paid close attention to details and maintained a good competitive state, ultimately achieving outstanding results.

  This large-scale exercise was jointly organized by the Communist Youth League of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Provincial Department of Education, Sichuan Provincial Health Commission, Emergency Department of Sichuan Province, Red Cross Society of Sichuan Province , and Sichuan Students’ Federation, under the guidance of the China Association for Disaster Prevention. The aim of the exercise was to strengthen first aid education in schools, enhance young students’ reverence for life and sense of social responsibility in actively providing assistance, improve their ability to respond to emergencies, and cultivate a new generation of young talents who are willing, brave, and proficient in rendering aid in the event of emergencies in the society of the new era.