On the afternoon of April 13, the series activities ‘historical stories of agricultural machinery’ was held in China agricultural machinery culture exhibition hall whose theme was ‘Wisdom of Jiangsu University in the South-to-North Water Transfer Project’. The event invited researcher Zhang Desheng, secretary of the Party Committee of the fluid center, as the guest speaker. Nearly 20 student representatives of Jinshan Talent Class of our university participated in the event.

Before the activity, under the guidance of the commentator, teachers and students visited the exhibition hall. Students had a comprehensive understanding of the magnificent development process of China's agricultural machinery culture, higher education and scientific research, and got to know the spiritual and cultural connotation behind the development of agricultural machinery by the physical models, graphic materials, video images and interactive experience contents of ‘tracing the historical origin of agricultural machinery’, ‘epoch changing and prospering agricultural machinery’ and ‘boundless imagination of future agricultural machinery’.

The activity was held in the physical model exhibition region of the South-to-North Water Transfer Project in the exhibition hall. Zhang Desheng introduced the background, significance and development process of the South-to-North Water Transfer Project and the great contribution of our research team in the whole project through videos, examples and animation demonstrations with the help of on-site physical model devices. In the interaction and exchange part, students discussed and communicated with Zhang Desheng on many topics, such as the service life of the core pump body, the overall energy consumption, the operation principle of the device, and the impact that the pump had on the surrounding environment.

China agricultural machinery culture exhibition hall is now Zhenjiang social science popularization and popular science education base. It plays a positive role in inheriting and innovating China's agricultural machinery culture, serving the popularization of social agricultural machinery knowledge and serving the development of agricultural machinery characteristics of our university.