SCBC student claims grand prize at 2021 All-China Japanese Speaking Contest
On December 12, the 16th All-China Japanese Speaking Contest (South China Region) was held at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies with 35 contestants from colleges and universities in South China competing for the laureates. Zeng Zhen, a junior of Japanese from the School of Asian Languages and Cultures, won the grand prize and will represent the South China Region in the national final. This is the second consecutive year that SCBC students have won the grand prize in the Contest in the South China Region.
The competition consists of two parts: proposition speech and impromptu speech. The judges graded the proposition speech videos recorded in advance; the impromptu speech was held online, and the contestants drew their topics and then started a 2-3 minute speech within 10 seconds after the draw.
Zeng Zhen’s draw was “What’s your comment on the view that young people today are not so reliable? “ She started from the idea that “everything needs to be planned in advance” and used examples of students taking exams and studying abroad to analyze the need to make good plans at all times in life and to take one step at a time towards success, so that young people could prove to society that they are capable and thus increase their voice and enhance their reliability. Zeng Zhen's speech was logical and clear, with the kind of richness and fluency of language that left a great impression on the judges and the audience, and finally got her the grand prize.
The 16th All-China Japanese Speaking Contest was sponsored by the Sub-Committee for Japanese Teaching of the Committee of Foreign Language and Literature Programs in Higher Education Institutions of the Ministry of Education and the China Association of Japanese Teaching and Research, and supported by the Chinese Embassy in Japan, the China-Japan Friendship Association, NHK and other organizations. Since its inauguration in 2006, the Contest has been held for fifteen times and all very successful. The Contest has usually been listed in the past years as part of serial activities for theme years celebrating the friendly communication and exchange between China and Japan, including Year of Cultural and Sports Exchanges in 2007, Year of Youth Friendship and Exchange in 2008, Year of National Exchange and Friendship in 2012, the 45th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan in 2017, the 40th anniversary of the Sino-Japanese Peace and Friendship Treaty in 2018, and Year of Youth Exchange and Promotion between China and Japan in 2019. The preliminary competitions of All-China Japanese Speaking Contest are held in eight regions across China, and the final is held in Tokyo, Japan.