CHONGQING (CQNEWS) -- In order to encourage students to develop the good habit of getting up early, Chongqing University of Technology recently implemented a “Half Price Breakfast before 7:00” policy. Students may have a half price discount for meals in the campus canteen before 7 o’clock.

At 6:30 a.m. on March 16, the reporter saw students queuing up to buy breakfast in front of multiple windows in the second canteen of Chongqing University of Technology. Li Guangming, Director of the Catering Service Center of the Infrastructure and Logistics Department of Chongqing University of Technology, told the reporter that there are four canteens on the Huaxi and Liangjiang campuses of Chongqing University of Technology. In the past, fewer than 100 students came to the canteen for breakfast at 7 o’clock every morning. Since the policy got implemented on March 7, the number of students coming to the canteen for breakfast before 7 o’clock every day has increased to more than 1,300.

The reporter learned that the university canteen usually costs around 8 yuan for breakfast, and the half price policy has greatly stimulated breakfast consumption. Li Guangming took the soybean milk in the university’s second canteen as an example: the sales of soymilk used to be less than 10 cups before 7:00, but now the number almost reached 300 cups.

“Now I eat more and better!” Zhang Jiayou, a 2022 graduate student in Chemical Engineering at Chongqing University of Technology, said with a smile. Zhang Jiayou seldom had breakfast in the past, but now breakfast is half priced before 7 o’clock, which not only attracted him to eat breakfast every day, but also eats in great variety. In the past, he used to casually eat some porridge, but now a bowl of noodles or rice noodles with meat costs only about 5 yuan at half price, which made him ear more and better. He told reporters that he used to sleep in late, but he will now think of going to the laboratory to do experiments or read books after changing breakfast diet, feeling much better than before.

It is understood that Kang Qian, the Party Secretary of the university, announced that the university will try to implement the decision of half price breakfast before 7 o’clock on March 6, which was officially implemented on March 7 and has been implemented for a week now. Zhao Yi, Director of the Student Affairs Department of Chongqing University of Technology, said that if you can’t get up in the morning, either you stayed up late the night before, or you have developed the habit of sleeping in, both of which are not supposed to happen. So, students are encouraged to develop good learning habits by encouraging them to get up early, read early, and exercise self-discipline by offering breakfast at half price before 7 o’clock, which stimulated their endogenous power to move forward. Now it seems that it had good effect.

(Translated by Wang Zhong, Fathom Language Limited)