On May 4^th, 2021, the 10th Asia-Pacific Business Schools Desert Adventure (hereinafter referred to as "Sha-10") officially concluded in the Tengger Desert of Alxa League, Inner Mongolia. More than 3,600 participants from 120 business schools (teams) in the Asia-Pacific region participated in the whole course of 70 kilometers for three days and two nights, breaking the world record of "Largest Desert Hiking Challenge" in Yasha Competition. In the end, all the members of MBA Beijing Lion Team finished the competition and won the highest honor of " Golden Gull”. At the same time, we won the 23rd place for the team competition, the 31st place in the Super A 100 km group (Qin Zhenpeng), the 29th place in the men's A group (Li Qingfeng), and the top 100 place in the women's A group (Li Dongmei).

 

 

A return to the Tengger Desert

 

In this competition, MBA team from BNUBS went through 51 training sessions, and finally assembled 43 team members to compete in the Tengger competition. Finally, all the team members successfully finished the competition, won the highest honor of the new competition system in the 10th anniversary of Yasha Competition -- the "Golden Gull Award" and Let the banner of MBA of Beijing Normal University once again fly high above the yellow sand. This is a tribute to the 100^th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, the 120^th anniversary of the founding of Beijing Normal University, and the 10^th anniversary of the founding of the MBA Alumni Association.

 

 

During the three days of the competition, the participants withstood the scorching sun and the stormy sand, practiced the concept of "environmental protection, cooperation, persistence and responsibility" with practical actions, and realized their goals and the goals of the team with the spirit of challenging themselves and going beyond the limit. Members in Super A team fought against the wind, members in A team struggled hard, members in B team supported each other and members in C team worked hard......In the end, all the members of Beijing Normal University MBA Beijing Lion Team lived up to their daily training, did not yield to the hardship of the competition, and won the "Golden Gull" -- the highest honor. We won the 23rd place for the team competition, the 31st place in the Super A 100 km group (Qin Zhenpeng), the 29th place in the men's A group (Li Qingfeng), and the top 100 place in the women's A group (Li Dongmei).

 

 

Firm original aspiration in mind, great tough responsibility on shoulder. From Sha 1 to Sha 10, we, as one of the first schools invited to participate in the competition, has never stopped participating in the event for ten years. With team's great organization, sound atmosphere, good management, secured protection and other strategies and tactics, we have achieved great results while protecting the safety of our members. Moreover, we have won the "Best Organization Award" and "Most Influential Organization Award" issued by the Organizing Committee for many times. We have become one of the benchmark teams of Yasha Games, which is driven by the power of surpassing step by step and passing on from generation to generation.

 

 

Ordinary is most seen in the extraordinary things.

 

Those who with no will understand nothing; those who don’t do something achieve nothing.

 

Yasha is an outdoor competition among the top business schools in the Asia-Pacific region. If two years of MBA study is a moral and intellectual development, then preparing for Yasha is a physical and mental hone. No training, no Yasha! Most of the participants, who have no cross-country experience, are striving towards the ideal of breaking their own limits, and forging ahead under a highly unified team goal.

Every member of the team stepped out of their comfort zone and squeezed time out of their busy work and study. Their physical strength was strengthened by the training minute by minute, and their equipment and skills were accumulated from time to time. With the awe of the desert, they improved themselves step by step towards the goal. 1km, 5km, 10km, half horse, full horse...We have seen the coldest winter night in Orson Park, we have seen the empty early morning streets, and we have seen ourselves struggling for our dreams! During the eight months of hard preparation in the post-epidemic period, the MBA Sha-10 team of Beijing Normal University went through dozens of hard preparation training and accumulated a total clocked capacity of tens of thousands of kilometers. They have also motivated more than 200 people from the BNUBS, including students, alumni and their relatives and family members. They witnessed each other's sweat and tears, and went to the battlefield through numerous obstacles together.

 

 

This is not the end. We will live up to everyone's expectations, to the support of the School and the center, and move forward firmly with all the honors and laughter, experience and lessons to inherit the Yasha spirit and the spirit of Beijing Normal University!

Strive while you can, live not by what if.

We are Jing Lion Team of Sha-10,

We are the brave BNUers!

 

 

Attached: Members of Beijing Lion Team of Sha-10

Team Super A: 1 (100km)

Qin Zhenpeng (2017)

 

Team A: 12 (70km)

He Haoran (Teacher), Huang Liangjin (Teacher), Ma Zihan (Leader -2019), Wang Peng (2019), Luo Jinpeng (Deputy Leader -2020), Su Yuecheng (2020), Wang Jing (2020), Li Xiang (2020), Li Dongmei (2020), Wang Shijuan (2020), Li Xiaomai (2020), Li Qingfeng (2021)

 

Team B: 8 (70km)

Li Yingshu (Teacher), Guo Xiaoye (2014), Cao Ning (2015), Wang Jinli (2016), An Wenzhong (2017), Ding Qiang (2018), Shi Chao (2018), Wang Hui (2018)

Team C: 22 (36km)

Yu Chen (Teacher), Zong Ling (2014), Wang Guimei (2018), Shi Shengxue (2018), Li Xinyu (2019), Li Zhuoyue (2019), Zhang Hongxu (2020), Zhang Yipin (2020), Liu Shan (2020), Yang Zhenyu (2020), Guo Xiaojie (2020), Zhou Meng (2020), Tang Jun (2020), Zhao Yang (2020), Feng Xiaoyu (2020), Song Lin (2020), Xie Hongyi (relatives of 2020), Yang Fan(2020), Guo Yunxiang(2020), Li Ye(2020), Qi Dian(2020), and Sun Bei Bei(2020).

 

Provided by Ma Zihan, MBA 2019