Recently the senior student from Business School of Wenzhou University Jiacheng Zhang received an offer from a top university in the world with QS Top 8 ranking University College London. He has been accepted into the MSc Economics and Policy of Energy and the Environment (EPEE). This excellent “straight A” student once again flooded the screen of all the teachers and students in the school. 

Born in February 2000, Jiacheng Zhang is a student at Financial Engineering Department of Wenzhou University enrolled in 2018. When only three years into his study, he has already achieved “three top prizes” in his department: top in GPA points, top in comprehensive assessment, and also top in the number of prizes awarded, which includes the second prize of the “National Challenge Cup” College Students’ Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Works Competition, third prize in national competitions, and special award in Zhejiang Province, as well as a wide range of high-achieving prizes such as second prize in National College Students’ English Competition and first prize in Zhejiang Career Planning Competition. With a course GPA of 4.33, he won the “Model Student” title for two years in a row at Wenzhou University and took charge of multiple research programs at the university and provincial level. He is also the first author of multiple papers which have been accepted by SCI journal. In 2021, he was one of the ten candidates in the entire Zhejiang Province qualified for the national scholarship assessment for undergraduate education providers … All those honors and awards have marked the great excellence achieved by Jiacheng Zhang.

Growing up in the countryside in Tiantai, out of great interest in agricultural economy and determination to contribute to the rural economic development, Jiacheng Zhang chose to study at Business School in Wenzhou University that excels in rural economic studies. During his study at the university, he makes use of different platforms established for the students by Wenzhou University to continually improve and strengthen his social practice capabilities. He followed his supervisor and used his professional expertise to investigate and address the “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers-related” issues in Wenzhou; the research report on Improving the New Rural Cooperative to Promote Rural Revitalization with his contribution was successfully adopted and put into practice by Wenzhou Supply and Marketing Cooperative, and the comments proposed in the report were also approved and acknowledged by Jun Che, , the then Secretary of Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and Weijun Chen, Secretary of Wenzhou Municipal Party Committee. Since then, he continued his internship and research in Ouhai Rural Commercial bank and he stayed close to the countryside and the farmers, which helped him to acquire first-hand data and information. After gathering and organizing all the data acquired during the internship, he spent over a year in editing his paper three times and finally cocomplete his academic paper as the first author-Agricultural co-operatives participating in supply chain integration in China: a qualitative comparative analysis, which was published in WOS JCR SCI Q1.

“This article has served as a stepping stone for the admittance to UCL”, Jiacheng Zhang commented. EPEE specializes in the study of sustainable development of environment and energy from economic perspective, which is a specialty unique to UCL. With the continuous development of China’s economy, the study of green agriculture will become a new trend in the future. This specialty also matches my original intention to contribute to rural revitalization.”

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