Learning about Community Revitalization in Kaiping

The third and final GEMC3001 service trip of the summer concluded this Sunday 21 June. Fifteen Morningside students and two Junior Fellows returned from Kaiping in Guangdong Province, where they met and learned from several experts involved in the restoration of heritage buildings and the revitalization of the surrounding community.

In partnership with Learn with Dragonfly, Morningsiders spent seven days in and around Kaiping, visiting sites such as the Zili Village UNESCO World Heritage Site and the Cangdong Village Project. In neighbouring Jiangmen, students visited the Jiangmen Wuyi Museum of Overseas Chinese, where they learned more about the unique history behind this region of China, and the Blue Tile Heritage Center. By speaking to professors, village heads, entrepreneurs, and young professionals, students got to better understand how to serve a rural community’s needs through heritage conservation.