Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of PRC with Environmental Art

Eco Cap

This year, people in China celebrated one of the most important moments, P.R. China’s 70th birthday. The students at SHSID celebrated this special date in their own unique ways.

滄海桑田，歲月如歌。今年，中華人民共和國迎來了她70歲的生日，全國人民都在歡慶這一重要時刻的同時，上海中學國際部的學生也以他們的方式為國家慶生。

Eco Cap, as one of the most characteristic clubs of SHSID, has been committed to raise environmental awareness and protection in our community. They have been creating a piece of artwork with bottle caps as materials during this special time of the year. Atthe beginning of the activity, Eco Cap had called on students to donate bottle caps they collected in their daily lives. Not only did they gather the material for the artistic creation, but they also educated everyone in the process of this garbage collection by helping them develop the habit of separating caps from the bottle. If these household wastes are not properly disposed of, they can be extremely harmful to marine life, as the caps are not only produced in small quantities but are also difficult to degrade. This puts an enormous pressure on the Earth's environment. Surprisingly, in just one week, the club has collected more than 800 caps, which will be recycled after the art exhibition.

Eco Cap，作為上海中學國際部的最具特色的社團之一，一直致力于世界環境保護事業，他們目前正如火如荼地開展著以瓶蓋為材料的藝術品創作活動。活動初期，社團在甄陶樓號召同學們捐贈日常生活中收集到的瓶蓋，一方面作為未來藝術創作的材料，一方面還教育大家在垃圾回收過程中養成將瓶蓋與瓶身分開的習慣。如果不能合理處理這些生活垃圾，它們將對海洋生物產生巨大的危害，因為瓶蓋不僅體積小數量多，還難以降解，對地球環境產生巨大的壓力。令人驚喜的是，僅僅一個星期，社團就已經收集到了超過800個瓶蓋，這些瓶蓋在藝術品展覽結束后將被回收處理。

On the 70th anniversary of the birth of P.R.China, students took the outline of our school's Longmen Building as the background of the art wall and used the red bottle caps to spell out the number "70". They sketched out a beautiful picture of SHSID to celebrate the national holiday. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, China has been on the road to sustainable development, technological innovation and social progress. The country has never ignored environmental protection issues. Just as how Shanghai is standing on the frontier of the nation’s garbage classification, the people of the whole city silently contribute their own strength to create a better environment for the world.

在新中國華誕70周年的喜慶日子里，學生們以我校龍門樓的輪廓作為藝術創作的背景，以紅色瓶蓋為筆繪畫出醒目的“70”，勾勒出一幅上海中學學子為國家慶生的美好畫卷。建國70年以來，中國一直在堅持可持續發展的道路上前進，在科技創新和社會進步的同時，國家也從未忽視環保問題，正如上海作為垃圾分類的排頭兵，整個城市的人民都在日常生活中默默地貢獻著自己的一份力量，共同守護著這座城市的干凈與文明。

Together, we guard the cleanliness and environmental culture of the city. As members of SHSID, we are also doing our best to contribute to the community for the country and even to the beautiful future of the Earth.

作為上海中學國際部的一份子，我們也在盡自己最大的努力，為學校、為社區、為國家，甚至為地球的美好明天貢獻自己的力量。

Written by10(6) Lilian Fan

Pictures by Liu Min

Supervised by Xie Junyu

文：謝君瑜 圖：劉敏