Recently, with the holding of the online award ceremony of the "17th Japanese Composition Contest of the Chinese People" jointly held by the Duan Press and the Embassy of Japan in China and the gradual distribution of the award certificates, the 17th Japanese composition contest has come to an end. Sun Li, a student from the Japanese Department of the 2019th grade of the College of Foreign Languages(CFL), USST, won a Second Prize while Shen Xin, Tang Zhehao, Yu Zhesheng and Xu Zilin, another 4 students of the same grade from the Japanese Department, won the Excellent Work Award. Additionally, the instructors Guo Li and foreign teacher Fukui Yusuke of the Japanese Department won the Excellent Instructor Award.
Sponsored by the Duan Press and the Japan-China Exchange Research Institute, the contest, which has received strong support from the Japanese Embassy in China, the People's Daily Online, the China-Japan Friendship Association, the Japan-China Association and some other Sino-Japanese friendship groups, aims to promote mutual understanding and cultural exchanges between China and Japan. Having so far been held for 17 consecutive times since 2005, it has now become a well-known, high-level, authoritative competition on a large scale with many schools participating in it.
This contest awards 1 Best Prize (Japanese Ambassador Award), 5 First Prizes, 15 Second Prizes, 40 Third Prizes, and 100 Excellent Work Prizes. This year, the contest received a total of 3,198 submissions from more than 180 colleges and universities in 27 provinces, province-level cities and autonomous regions across the country. In the fierce competition, 5 students from the Japanese Department of CFL, USST, who participated in this competition stood out, and all of them received different prizes, which is a great feat. It is worth mentioning that CFL, USST has participated in five sessions of this contest, and has achieved excellent results each session. Particularly, two of our contestants reaped the Best Prize and a First Prize. The winning students and their instructors of CFL, USST were not only invited to deliver a speech at the awarding ceremony held by the Japanese Embassy in China, and CFL, USST also appeared on the "Asahi Shimbun" twice, which greatly expanded USST’s College of Foreign Languages’ reputation and influence overseas, fully demonstrating that the school-running level and the quality of students cultivated by USST, CFL, and its Department of Japanese are getting higher and higher.
