China News Service, Shijiazhuang, August 23 (Reporter Li Qian) The second Ji-Taiwan Classic Music Exchange Award Ceremony was held on the 23rd in Zhouwo Music Town, Hengshui City, Hebei Province. The scene was the top 10 in mainland China and 10 in Taiwan. Strong awards. The award ceremony was broadcast live simultaneously on the Internet. It is reported that since the event started on June 13, nearly 1,500 people from both sides of the strait have signed up for the competition.

  In order to promote cross-strait exchanges, especially exchanges and understanding between young people, Hebei and Taiwan launched the second series of Ji-Taiwan Classical Music Exchange Series activities, uniting a number of audio and video media, focusing on Hebei and Taiwan, and radiating More than 30 universities in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei-Taiwan jointly promote the exchange of music creation and the dissemination of works by college students on both sides of the strait.

  According to reports, since the launch of the second Ji-Taiwan Classical Music Exchange, more than 1,000 people have signed up for the mainland competition and nearly 400 people have signed up for the Taiwan competition. This event has a total of 430,000 online votes and a total of 83,000 online interactions.

  Jia Mingxing, deputy secretary-general of the Hebei Musicians Association, said that the cross-strait music exchanges worked hard to overcome the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic and jointly sang Chinese classics and inherited national culture through new media. Musicians from both sides of the Taiwan Strait actively display their works on the Internet, or original or cover songs. While harvesting friendship, a large number of excellent original music works have also emerged.

  Bai Yuguang, a member of the organizing committee of this event and a Taiwanese vocalist, said that this exchange event "closes" the distance between Hebei and Taiwan through science and technology, so that young people in Hebei and Taiwan can better understand each other and promote the Chinese culture. Be more active and enthusiastic.

  It is reported that during the exchange activities, musicians from Hebei and Taiwan conducted in-depth exchanges on the current situation of Jitai music development through online video conferences and WeChat groups, focusing on Chinese music, vocal music, chorus, musicals, etc., with fruitful results.

  Fu Xuejian, a representative of the winners and music teacher of the "post-90s", is a Taiwanese born and raised in Hebei. He, who has participated in cross-strait youth exchanges many times, said that this music exchange is more artistic. The contestants on both sides of the strait are very serious about this competition, so the works presented have been well received on the Internet.

  Fu Xuejian expressed the hope that there will be more offline communication in the future, and that after the event, the enthusiasm for cross-strait exchanges will continue, so that more young people on both sides of the strait can participate and enjoy it.

  He Meihui from Taipei won the Most Popular Female Singer Award in the Taiwan Division of this competition for singing the theme song "Concentric Circles" of the classic Ji-Taiwan music exchange last year. She said frankly that the entire event was held online. Participants could make different musical presentations according to their personal ideas and preferences, making the competition more flexible and creative.

  He Meihui said that the last lyric in "Concentric Circles", "We watch together and help each other to make our dreams come true" expresses the same feelings of the descendants of both sides of the Taiwan Strait. She hopes that through culture, music and art, the people on both sides of the strait can have more exchanges and have more understanding of each other. (Finish)