Recently, the results of the “Yangtze River Delta Future Garden Designer” student design competition which is jointly sponsored by the Organizing Committee of Shanghai International Flower Show and “Chinese Landscape Architecture” magazine were announced. “Hidden Residence in the City” from School of Municipal and Ecological Engineering of SUCC won the Best Work Award in Group A (College Group), and is the only vocational college in the Yangtze River Delta region that has won the award.

With the theme of “Delicate Horticulture, Beautiful Life”, this competition is presented through the combination of plant landscape configuration and gardening ornaments. A total of 295 teams from 49 colleges and universities in the Yangtze River Delta region signed up for the competition. They were divided into two groups according to the type of colleges and universities, and the collection and selection of works were carried out respectively. Namely: Group A - higher education group, group B - secondary professional school group.

Since the announcement of the competition in November 2021, the School of Municipal and Ecological Engineering has mobilized students majoring in landscape architecture to actively participate, so that excellent works have emerged one after another. In the stage of on-campus work explanation and exhibition, industry guides are invited to select four groups of outstanding works, and each group needs to be further polished and deepened during the holidays. Lin Jian and Wu Hong, teachers of SUCC, guide Zhang Yiping, Chen Yiqi, Luo Yanan’s work “Hidden Residence in the City” project, which is the best interpretation of “‘lesser hermit’ lives in seclusion in the country” in the beginning to the “‘greater hermit’ lives in city” at last, and won the project successfully to participate in competition on behalf of SUCC

In the final review meeting of the organizing committee, well-known experts from the domestic industry gathered in the cloud to communicate with the contestants through the screen. The participating representatives explained their works from the aspects of design concept, plant configuration, innovation points, cost, etc., and combined with dynamic sound and picture to show their magical powers, which left a deep impression on everyone. Experts questioned the participating representatives and gave professional opinions on the theme of the flower show, innovation, application promotion, plant configuration, and implementation.

This competition fully embodies the SUCC’s teaching practice concept of integrating knowledge and action, builds a platform for students to participate in urban greening innovation practice, and at the same time enhances professional exchanges between colleges and universities, and promotes the training of professional talents.