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After three years, this year’s competition resumed offline for the first time. Professor Zhang Xiaofeng, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of w88 casino, delivered an opening speech. In his speech, Deputy Secretary Zhang Xiaofeng first reviewed the 16 years of the event and pointed out that this year coincides with the 45th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between China and Japan. He firmly believed that this competition will definitely promote cultural exchanges between Chinese and Japanese youths.
Liu Yibo, a representative of the competition organizer and director of the International Cooperation Department of the China Education International Exchange Association, announced in his speech that this year’s competition has been designated as one of a series of activities to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between China and Japan. In addition, representatives from the China-Japan Academic Exchange Center, Honorary Professor Wang Min of Hosei University, and Ms. Kayoko Hayama of the Nihon Keizai Shimbun also delivered speeches.
In order to ensure the smooth progress of the preliminaries, this competition has established a review committee composed of Chinese and Japanese experts, scholars and business representatives, and hired Professor Chen Duoyou of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, who is a member of the Japanese Language Major Teaching Guidance Subcommittee of the Ministry of Education’s College Foreign Language Teaching Steering Committee, president of the China Japanese Language Teaching Research Association, as the director of the jury.
The competition is divided into two parts: propositional speech and impromptu speech. The order of speeches is determined by the contestants drawing lots. In the topic speech stage, the contestants chose one of the 5-minute time-limited speeches on the themes of "Message to the 45th Anniversary of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between China and Japan" and "Digital Transformation and Our Life." Each contestant was fully prepared, and their speeches had their own characteristics and performed very well. The impromptu speech stage uses the method of answering within 10 seconds after listening to the questions on the spot. The contestants are allowed to comment and express their opinions on some current hot topics such as young people returning to their hometowns for employment and civil service exams. Each contestant gave a three-minute impromptu speech on their respective topics and only had 10 seconds of thinking time. This is a comprehensive examination of the contestants’ language proficiency, knowledge reserve, reaction ability, etc.
After fierce competition, Du Hanyi from Tsinghua University and Wang Haonan from Beijing Foreign Studies University won the special prize. They will represent Beijing in the final scheduled to be held in Tokyo, Japan on March 12 next year.
