Itinerary
Seven days, 4–10 July 2026, pairing what students studied each day with the photos taken along the way.
Day 1 · 4 July
Arrival and orientation · 聯結與啟程
The group landed at Chengdu Tianfu International Airport in the late afternoon. After transferring to the hotel in Shuangliu, students settled in and received their study materials — record books, measurement kits and the tour handbook — before a first dinner together.
Day 2 · 5 July
Scientific tools and theory · 科學工具與理論準備
The camp opened at Chengdu University of Information Technology, home to the largest and best-equipped university meteorology science base in southwest China. Students handled weather observation instruments, toured the observation station and the radar vehicle, and took the smart meteorology course on disaster prevention, climate change and vertical zonation. The afternoon moved to the Sichuan University–PolyU Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction, where laboratory work and emergency-response study framed disaster governance as a social question as much as an engineering one.
Day 3 · 6 July
Species, habitat and city · 物種、棲息地與城市
An early start for a full morning at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding — the world's largest ex-situ panda conservation population, landscaped to imitate wild habitat. Students observed pandas of different ages across the Adventure Valley and Infinite Hills zones, joined interpretive sessions on nutrition and husbandry, and debated the scientific value and ethical limits of ex-situ conservation. The afternoon shifted to Kuanzhai Alley, the last surviving Qing-dynasty street grid of old Chengdu, for face-changing opera, covered-bowl tea and the city's slower rhythm.
Day 4 · 7 July
Architecture and microclimate · 建築與微氣候的共生
A two-and-a-half-hour drive into the Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture brought the group to Taoping Qiang Village in Li County — a living cultural ecosystem whose stone watchtowers and dwellings have withstood earthquakes for centuries through interlocking masonry, internal water channels and passive ventilation. Students read the buildings as climate technology and heard the Qiang flute, whose austere sound carries the memory of migration and highland survival. The afternoon was given to Qiang embroidery in Xuecheng: guided study of historic pieces and their motifs, an interactive quiz, then basic stitch instruction and each student's own finished work.
Day 5 · 8 July
Community, horses and stewardship · 社區、馬與生態守護
Yanwozhai Village welcomed the group with the Qiang red ribbon ceremony, followed by a donation ceremony. In the horse husbandry course students entered traditional stables, led and fed horses, and interviewed local owners about temperament, feeding and breeding — tracing the horse's resilient shift from farm labour to partner in village eco-tourism. Teams then divided between horseback patrol up to alpine meadows at 2,600–2,800 m, practising leave-no-trace fieldwork, and a community survey on rural industry transition. Village elders sent the group off with unaccompanied polyphonic mountain songs passed down by ear alone.
Day 6 · 9 July
Presenting the findings · 成果匯報
The morning began at Fengyi Town Xingmao Primary School in Maoxian County, where students met local pupils for a cultural exchange. The children were curious about the visitors from Hong Kong and Macao, and the two groups shared songs, games and classroom conversations before saying goodbye. After that, the drive back to Chengdu became working time, with teams pulling their measurement sheets, interviews and sketches into a single argument. The afternoon closing ceremony gave every team the floor to present what they had found — and to revisit the research questions they had written on their first evening in Sichuan.
Day 7 · 10 July
Carrying it home · 帶回港澳
A final morning in Chengdu, then the transfer to Tianfu International Airport and the flight home — with field notebooks full, and a set of questions about resilience and coexistence to keep working on back in Hong Kong and Macao.
Field Science
Students split into four measurement teams and kept a scientific record book throughout the camp, sampling and comparing readings as the group climbed from the Chengdu basin to alpine meadows above 2,600 m.
Multi-parameter sampling in streams and lakes, with every reading tied to a numbered sample and a named location — including the giant salamander habitat survey upstream of Yanwozhai.
Lapse-rate fieldwork: Γ = (low-altitude temperature − high-altitude temperature) ÷ altitude difference × 100, in °C per 100 m, with points measured close together in time so daily warming isn't mistaken for an altitude effect.
Three readings averaged at each point, recorded alongside cloud cover, slope aspect, shading and altitude — then asking not which point was highest, but why.
Time-of-day and terrain comparisons, with careful notes on wind-funnelling sites — mountain passes, bridges and narrow river valleys — to test whether open ground and passes really do produce stronger winds.