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The "Foreign Languages and Talents Cup" competition has been held for more than 20 years. This year, in addition to the English group, there is a multi-lingual group, with 8 new language tracks including Russian, German, French, Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, Italian and Portuguese. With the theme of "Understanding China, Connecting the World", the competition attracted nearly one million students from more than 1,300 colleges and universities to participate. The competition is hosted by Beijing Foreign Studies University and hosted by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. It has attracted widespread attention from national education administration departments, university education experts, experts from practical departments, industry and enterprise representatives and other people from all walks of life. Zhou Tianhua, Director of the Department of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education, attended the closing ceremony of this competition and delivered a speech.
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