China News Service, Beijing, July 10 (Wu Kan) The 21st World Chinese Student Composition Competition was officially launched on the 9th. From the 10th, the papers will be solicited for domestic high school students and overseas Chinese teenagers.
The contest is co-sponsored by the Chinese Overseas Chinese Federation, the National Taiwan Federation, the Overseas Edition of the People’s Daily, and "Happy Composition" magazine. It aims to promote Chinese culture, improve the level of Chinese writing, and strengthen cultural exchanges between students at home and abroad.
The overseas essays of this composition competition set four themes of "witness · record", "wonderful thinking", "poem reading" and "growth story". Students can choose one of them and write their own topic. The call for papers is from July 10 to October 25.
"There are more optional themes for this year's essays than in previous years, and there are generally two in the past, and four in this year." The relevant person in charge of the Education Department of the Cultural Exchange Department of the Chinese Overseas Chinese Association told reporters that this year's theme focuses more on the major events that happen around them, focusing on The culture draws wisdom and nutrition, pays attention to training contestants' storytelling skills, and focuses on training Chinese teenagers' storytelling skills to enhance their imagination and creativity.
The person in charge said that the theme of "witness and record" is related to the global epidemic. "I believe that in the face of the epidemic, Chinese teenagers will have a sincere understanding of life, family, society, country and world."
"Overseas participating students can consider the relationship between personal freedom and the health of others in the process of epidemic prevention and control, the importance of strengthening cooperation in epidemic prevention and control between countries, and the necessity of building a human health and health community." He says.
It is understood that the contest is divided into five parts: preliminary review, review, selection of special awards, announcement of award results, and award ceremony. For the manuscripts that pass the preliminary review, experts will be invited by the competition jury to conduct re-evaluation and final evaluation, and the first, second, third prizes and special prizes will be selected as finalists. The top prizes will be selected based on expert opinions and online votes.
The final award result will be announced on January 5, 2021. At that time, contestants can check the award information through the WeChat public account of the "World Chinese Student Composition Competition". The award ceremony will be held in January 2021.
This year's competition encourages schools to participate in groups, and organizations and teachers who actively organize the competition and have outstanding achievements will have the opportunity to be awarded the "Contest Organization Model Unit" award and the "Excellent Organizer" award.
It is reported that the World Chinese Student Composition Competition has been successfully held for 20 consecutive years since it started in 2000. Every year, it attracts many students to participate, and has become a good platform for enhancing friendship, promoting development, and showing the appearance of young people at home and abroad. (Finish)