China is one of the largest developing countries with a great number of populations. The diversity of its ecosystems, landscapes, cultures, traditions and ethnic groups is extraordinary. As same as the oriental traditions, the different ethnic groups have strong belief systems and accumulated experiences for generations to live harmoniously with the rest of nature. For instance, the Tibetan Plateau is called Asian Water Tower because of its surrounding diverse landscapes such as the uncountable snowcapped mountain ridges with a wide range of glaciers. It is also the sources of Yangtze River, Yellow River, Salween River and Yarlong Tsangbo River etc in China. Most importantly, the culture there is to seek a spiritual level of sustainability by not only caring the elements of nature itself but also the awareness of inner development with the wisdom and compassionate. However, current rapid development of industrialization and globalization brought them both advantages and disadvantages. The modern technology provided them a lot of conveniences and materialistic benefits for their lives but it simultaneously caused a tremendous environmental degradations, water pollutions and even to mislead their believe systems into an unsound state. Therefore, channels needed to promote the ideas and actions of ESD for them to regain the cultural confidence and this is the main reason that the program to cooperate with the Tibetan Children’s Newspaper as one of the best readers with a high reputation among its people. In the year of 2022, the newspaper implemented a Tibetan calligraphy competition among more than 100 elementary and secondary schools. About 400 students directly participated in this activity to promote the importance of culture revitalization, nature and wildlife protection, sanitation and hygiene, nomadic culture and sustainable lifestyle, clean water access and tree plantation etc.

The water school students, teachers and community members continued to develop and implement a diverse project activities based on their local culture and promising UN SDGs though the outbreak of coronavirus with the strict rules has brought a tremendous pressure to carry out the project plans smoothly.

The students from Capital Normal University in Beijing with their tutors designed and developed resources of local teaching materials that contribute to increase substantially the supply of qualified teachers, including through international cooperation for teacher training in developing countries whilst their actual actions to improve the water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating dumping and minimizing release of hazardous chemicals and materials, halving the proportion of untreated wastewater and substantially increasing recycling and safe reusing in Beijing City as a project pilot.

The Community Learning Centers (CLCs) in Bazhu Village, Wuzhu Village, BMXS Nature Reserve, ESD Center of Dongzhulin Monastery in Yunnan Province, ESD Center in Tibet University and CLC in Qinghai Province carried out a series of activities, for example, education and capacity building programs that focused on traditional culture revitalization, sustainable management of nature resources, sustainable agriculture and ecotourism etc to ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development. The community members at different regions took actions to protect the sources of waters from pollution, mining and unsustainable industrialization. The programme also funded and organized a Tibetan Calligraphy Competition Activity among the students from all over the Tibet in China with the editors of Tibetan Children’s Newspaper.