Jasmine Chong, a young Malaysian woman, used to be an international student majoring in chemical and environmental engineering at University of Nottingham Ningbo. When the COVID-19 broke out in January 2020 in China, she was back in Malaysia. After learning a team of doctors and nurses in Ningbo left Ningbo for Wuhan on the eve of the Spring Festival (which fell on January 25 this year) in a nationwide concerted endeavor to contain the outbreak COVID-19, she was touched. She wrote a song to sing of the heroism of the doctors and nurses.

She came to University of Nottingham Ningbo China thanks to an international student exchange program. She is a song writer and singer and she has a passion for playing basketball. In Ningbo she took part in various singing festivals and competitions. She made quite a few friends due to basketball games. Wins and losses on the basketball court enabled her to share emotions with fellow players and make friends.

The exchange program ended last year, but her love with Ningbo has outlived the program. Shortly after the end of the student exchange program in 2019, she submitted an application for a postgraduate program in Ningbo.

Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in China, Jasmine has followed the news online closely. Reading news reports and communicating with friends on social media, she learns how China is fighting the vicious coronavirus. The song she wrote emerged from her concern with the epic battle going on in China. The song expresses her support to China’s fight to bring the coronavirus under control and wipe it out.

“If possible I will certainly return to Ningbo. I have no doubt that the epidemic will pass soon. I believe firmly that China is one of the safest destinations for international students,” says Jasmine Chong.