On August 20, 2022, a team of four MPP students, including Bangyuan AN, Hanz Charles PONCE ACOSTA, Yijie ZHANG, and Yuqi LIU, won the second prize in the 2022 Tsinghua International Case Analysis Competition of Public Policy on Sustainable Development Goals. The title of the award-winning case analysis report was “Salient Altar of Saline Alkali Land: Lessons from the Development of Agricultural Technology in Saline Alkali Land in the Yellow River Delta.” Prof. Masaru YARIME and Prof. Xiaofan ZHAO were the advisors for this team.
"The team has skillfully applied the knowledge and methodologies learned at our MPP program to tackle a crucial challenge in moving towards sustainable agriculture," Prof. YARIME commented. He encouraged the students to further explore public policy for facilitating science, technology, and innovation for sustainability. "They have chosen a meaningful topic – sustainable agriculture – and demonstrated brilliant analytical skills as a result of their training in the MPP program. I hope that more MPP students will follow their steps and join this and other similar case competitions in the future," Prof. ZHAO said.
The School of Public Policy and Management and the Institute for Sustainable Development Goals of Tsinghua University organized the competition. Fifty-four teams from 84 institutes in China, the United States, Brazil, Japan, Canada, and Italy participated in the competition. Through case studies, students were encouraged to explore existing problems, practices, policy innovations, and solutions to sustainable development worldwide.
(From left to right, top to bottom) Yijie ZHANG, Bangyuan AN, and Yuqi LIU presented their case analysis report in the final round of the competition. Hanz Charles PONCE ACOSTA participated in the preparation of the slides, all previous rounds of the competition, and the report's writing.