The wind is strong and the snow grains are like knives. The climate of the Pamirs in November is changeable, but Sun Xi, who grew up in the Jiangnan water town, is used to it. After working continuously for 6 hours, she wrapped up her coat and continued to carry out grassroots visits. In July this year, she just graduated from the School of Social Development of Yangzhou University and resolutely stepped on the train to the west, becoming a grass-roots worker in Kezhou, Xinjiang. Take root at the grassroots level and make contributions. In Yangzhou University, Sun Xi's choice represents a kind of fashion, but also a kind of endless inheritance. All along, young people from generation to generation, with their profound family and country feelings, have gone to the countryside, mountains or borders without hesitation to sprinkle the sweat of youth. This year, 435 people went to the west, 755 people chose hard industries such as agriculture and forestry, 1639 people took root at the grass-roots level... What attracted them to go forward to the depths of mountains and rivers? What kind of waves does youth stir up in the distance? In the process of inheritance, we have refined our ideals and beliefs: "The road of the city is very flat, but the world in the west is wider, and we look forward to your dreams here." Not long ago, Wu Dengyun, a national outstanding Communist and "the most beautiful striver" who is over 80 years old, connected to the "Wison Lecture Hall" of Yangzhou University. Over the years, no matter how busy he is, he has insisted on giving students an "enlightenment lesson" on career choice, calling on everyone to devote themselves to border construction. In 1963, after graduation, Wu Dengyun volunteered to come to Wuqia County, Xinjiang, the westernmost part of the motherland. Since then, he has been deeply rooted here. He has donated blood for more than 30 times without compensation to save the national brothers; In order to save the burned baby, 13 pieces of skin were cut off from his legs and transplanted to the patient... Every year for more than 100 days, he spent more than 100 days in climbing mountains and mountains, eating and sleeping in the open air, going deep into the pastoral area for inspection and epidemic prevention, and was affectionately known as the "saint in white" by the local people. Wu Dengyun's spirit of rooting in the frontier, hard work and selfless dedication has touched everyone, and also inspired a group of young people to go to the grass-roots level to shine. In 1999, in order to inherit and carry forward Wu Dengyun's spirit, Yangzhou University set up a "Wu Dengyun Class" to cultivate medical talents with deep roots. In 2004, Dong Shumeng, a young medical graduate at Wu Dengyun's alma mater, made the same choice. After graduating from college, the young man refused to be invited by many big hospitals in cities, and took his girlfriend to the Linglong Hospital in Kaiping, Guangdong Province to take good care of the elderly lepers. In this almost isolated place, they have been there for 18 years, and even chose the wedding place in leprosy village. In 23 years, more than 1300 graduates of the hospital have chosen to work in western or rural grass-roots hospitals. Groups of "Wu Dengyun" and "Dong Shumeng" have taken root in remote areas, guarding health and hope. Example is a banner, while education allows the youth ambition rooted in thick soil to hunt in the wind. It is an excellent school running tradition of Yangzhou University to cultivate grassroots talents who can go down, do well and stay. All along, the school has continued to carry out the reform of talent training models such as outstanding rural doctors and outstanding rural teachers. Since 2010, it has successively carried out the joint training of undergraduate students of "rural regional development specialty" with Changshu and other places, creating a precedent for universities and places to jointly carry out undergraduate education for rural talents. In addition, the school is widely built“