100 Reasons to Fall in Love with Beijing

On the afternoon of May 14, the award ceremony of the 2020 "100 Reasons to Fall in Love with Beijing" theme short video and essay Big contest co-sponsored by the Beijing Municipal Government Information Office and the Municipal Friendship Association, organized by Beijing International Studies University and co-organized by the Palace Museum The lecture hall of the Palace Museum was successfully held. The short video and essay Big contest attracted the active participation of more than 1,000 young foreign friends from nearly 100 countries. More than 900 video works and more than 400 text works were collected. In the end, there were more than 100 excellent short videos and 110 excellent text works. stand out. Beijing International Studies University won the Outstanding Organization Award for the Big Competition. Short video works won 1 special prize, 1 first prize, and 2 third prizes.

Jiang Jianguo, Vice Minister of the Propaganda Department, Mo Gaoyi, Member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Committee and Minister of the Propaganda Department, Wang Xudong, Dean of the Palace Museum, Xu Hejian, Deputy Director of the Propaganda Department of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and Director of the Information Office of the Municipal Government, Zhang Qian, Executive Vice President of the Beijing People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, Gu Xiaoyuan, Secretary of the Party Committee of Beijing International Studies University and other leaders attended the event and presented awards to the winning works. The United Front Work Department of the Municipal Party Committee, the Education Working Committee of the Municipal Party Committee, the Municipal Taiwan Affairs Office, the Municipal Science and Technology Commission, the Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, the Municipal Bureau of Commerce, the Municipal State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, the Municipal Foreign Affairs Office, the Municipal Government Foreign Affairs Office, the Municipal Cultural Development Center, the Winter Olympics Organizing Committee news and publicity Ministry, the Propaganda Department of the 16th District Committee and the Propaganda Department of the Economic and Technological Development Zone Working Committee, in the country-ASEAN in Heart, in State Grid, World Wide Web, International Online, Beijing Daily, Beijing Radio and Television, Beijing Second Foreign Language Nearly 200 responsible comrades from colleges and other units attended this event.

Wang Xudong, President of the Palace Museum, said in his welcome speech that the Palace Museum is the carrier of 5000 years of Chinese civilization, the gathering place of Chinese excellent traditional culture, and a window for the world to understand Chinese history and culture. This activity is an important practice for the Palace Museum to realize the vision of a "Chinese culture reception hall for cultural exchange and mutual learning". The Imperial Palace museum will also provide more friends and friends to friends from all over the world with a more open and tolerant attitude. It will also provide more opportunities to approach the Imperial Palace and close to the Imperial Palace. It will strive to tell the story of China and promote world peace and jointly implement the great Dali concept of "building a community of human destiny" proposed by President Xi Jinping.

In his speech, Comrade Xu Hejian pointed out that today Beijing is extending the most cordial greetings to friends from all over the world in an attitude of grace, openness, tolerance, beauty and innovation, and rapid development. It sends out the most sincere invitations and presents the latest, most beautiful and best image. The excellent works we collected today not only express the reasons for falling in love with Beijing but also use wonderful shots and moving brushstrokes to record, tell and convey the voice of the city in the long history of Beijing: "Beijing welcomes you!"

Secretary Gu Xiaoyuan, on behalf of the school, thanked the organizers of this event for their high trust in Beijing International Studies University and the guidance and help provided by the Municipal Government Information Office in hosting the Big Games in the school. She said that foreign friends used their own eyes, cameras, words and narratives to describe a colorful, diverse and rich Beijing. They used what they saw, heard and felt in Beijing to talk about the "reasons for falling in love with Beijing". Secretary Gu shared with the Big family the three reasons she loves Beijing based on the school's outstanding achievements in serving the country and Beijing in recent years, namely, tolerance, kindness and responsibility. She emphasized that the school is focusing on "better undertaking the task of cultivating international communication talents" in continuous innovation and development, in serving the country and the capital strategy, and telling the "in-country story" and "Beijing story" in continuous thinking and active actions. Build 18 specialized think tanks to serve the construction of Beijing's "Four In Hearts" and "Two Districts". In the past three years, 54 consultative achievements have been formed, and the honors and commendations obtained are among the top universities in the capital. In the end, she gave the school mascot "Small Luan" as a gift to the award-winning representatives, hoping that all the contestants could fly into the blue sky of the world with a wonderful Beijing story like "Small Luan".

Vice President Zhang Qian stated that in October 2012, the Beijing Municipal People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, the Municipal Government Information Office, the Municipal Education Commission, and the Municipal Foreign Affairs Office jointly organized the "Beijing and I" theme essay competition for international students, which has been held 5 sessions so far. The international students discovered the newest, most beautiful, and best places in Beijing with a unique perspective of observation. In the future, the CPAFFC will continue to strengthen cooperation with the Municipal Government Information Office and make the in-writing competition a bridge for foreign students in Beijing to integrate into Beijing.

The 2020 "100 Reasons to Fall in Love with Beijing" themed short video and essay Big competition lasted for five months, and received positive responses from foreign short video enthusiasts and friendly Beijing-loving people in Beijing from units, enterprises, media, universities and all walks of life in the society. The contestants are mainly young people, attracting the active participation of more than a thousand foreign friends from nearly 100 countries, rich in content, diverse in forms, well-made, and genuine. Through the lens and text of foreign friends, we have seen a city with warmth, depth, resilience, story and hope.

At the awards ceremony, friends from in and abroad jointly performed Peking opera, musicals, dance, sand painting, chorus and other programs. Beijing Belarusian Culture in Heart brings a song performance "Crane Dance Polesier", Canadian Big Chinese Three Sisters DRM Youth New Media brings a dance performance "Understanding Beijing in a Child's Way", Capital Economics and Trade Big Learning American teacher Joshua Todd, JD American employee Ella Kidron, in ATV reporter Ai Linna and other winners were interviewed and told their stories with Beijing.

As the organizer of the Big competition, Beijing International Studies University attaches great importance to this event. Since the start of the Big Game, the school has held several short video Big Game promotion meetings to carry out various tasks in an orderly manner and go all out to do all the work of the Big Game. The school actively coordinates the participation of various districts, commissions, bureaus, and universities in Beijing, and fully mobilizes teachers and students in the school to participate in the Big competition. The teachers and students formed a creative force, stimulated the vitality of innovation, and focused on spreading the traditional culture of China and telling the story of Beijing, fully presenting the school's international characteristics and creating a good international image of the school. In addition, Beijing International Studies University has meticulously organized the 2020 "100 Reasons to Fall in Love with Beijing" themed short video Big competition launching ceremony, Big competition expert final evaluation meeting, award ceremony and some performances.

In this Big competition, Beijing International Studies University submitted 39 video works, many of which told the wonderful Beijing story from the unique perspective of foreign teachers and won many honors. The school won the Outstanding Organization Award. The short video work "I love Beijing where tradition and modernity collide" won the special prize; the work "My Beijing and my teacher" won the first prize; the work "Here is my hometown in peace" and "Hello Beijing-Duncan in Beijing" won Third Prize.

Fede, a foreign teacher of Italian Big Li, said that he was very excited to be able to win the prize and was also very happy to be able to participate in this awards ceremony, especially in a special place like the Forbidden City, the capital of the country, which is really meaningful to me. Thank you Big Game for providing such a good opportunity to share my story with Beijing. At the same time, I thank the teachers and students of Beijing International Studies University for all their help when shooting the video. Hungarian foreign teacher Vincze Maria said that being able to win the award is both pleasant and pleasant. Thanks to my shooting team and event organizers. This award belongs to each of us. I teach in Beijing, and I also learn from Beijing. This competition is 100 reasons to fall in love with Beijing, but I have more reasons to fall in love with Beijing than 100. If you want to use birds as a metaphor, then I love Beijing as much as a flock of birds. I will continue to discover some hidden beauty in Beijing, I love Beijing, Beijing is already a part of my life.

After the Big Competition awards ceremony, the organizing committee of "100 Reasons to Fall in Love with Beijing" will perform a multilingual translation of the 100 selected excellent works. By then, excellent works in English, Japanese, Korean, French, Spanish, Russian and other languages will be available through Douyin, Kuaishou, Station B, Youtu (YouTube), Facebook (Facebook), Twitter (Twitter), Douyin Overseas Version (TikTok) and other social media platforms at home and abroad and mainstream media mobile clients to spread.

Jingdong Group, Kuaishou Technology Co., Ltd., Tencent Education, Capital Research Institute of Foreign Culture Communication, and Beijing Research Base of Foreign Culture Communication participated in the event as supporting units.

Gong Limeng, Executive Deputy Director of the Propaganda Department of the Party Committee of Beijing International Studies University, Qu Ru, Dean of the Capital Institute of Foreign Culture Communication, Qian Zhiguang, Deputy Director of the Party School Office, Bai Yan, Vice Minister of the Propaganda Department of the Party Committee, and Hao Qingmei, Secretary of the Youth League Committee, Propaganda Department of the Party Committee, and student of the Party Committee Some teachers and students, including the Work Department and Advanced Translation College, participated in the event.