Recently, the 2023 Foreign Language Press•Guocai Cup "Understanding Contemporary China" National College Student Foreign Language Competition (Shandong Division) speech competition was held in Jinan, while the writing competition was held online. The competition was sponsored by Beijing Foreign Studies University, guided by the Higher Education Department of Shandong Provincial Education Department, and co-organized by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. More than 30 contestants from 90+ universities in the province competed in the English major group and non-major group. Our school's contestants performed brilliantly. Students Tang Zihao and Liu Ruolin, guided by teachers Wang Hong and Chen Kaiyi, won the first prize of the English speech competition and writing competition respectively. Students Qu Yue and Wei Shuchen won the second prize and third prize of the writing competition respectively.
The theme of this speech competition was "The Chinese Path to Modernization", aiming to inspire young people to interpret the connotation of Chinese-style modernization, tell China's stories, and spread China's voice. The speech competition included two stages: the first stage was a 3-minute keynote speech and answering judges' questions, and the top 18 contestants advanced to the second stage. The second stage was a 2-minute impromptu speech and answering judges' questions. In the competition, our school's contestant Tang Zihao wowed the judges with his speech by virtue of excellent language proficiency, standard pronunciation, and smooth expression . He shared his perspective on Chinese-style modernization with his professional knowledge and experience, demonstrating our students' deep patriotism and good cross-cultural communication skills, showing solid English language proficiency and expression ability.
For many years, our school has always regarded "promoting learning through competition, promoting teaching through competition, promoting reform through competition, and promoting construction through competition" as an important starting point for improving educational standards. We continue to promote the integrated education of "job postings, courses, competitions, and certificates", promote the mutual promotion of professional theoretical knowledge and practice, comprehensively improve students' foreign language proficiency and core competitiveness, focus on promoting the talent training model of "language + vocational skills", and empower students' future career development.
