On December 9, the exhibition and award ceremony of excellent works of the 37th "12.9" Poetry and Prose Contest of Hubei Provincial Universities was held in Fountain Square in CCNU. Bi Chen, executive chairman of Hubei Students' Federation, Hu Zhiyong, deputy director of School Department of Hubei Provincial Committee of Communist Youth League, Chen Diming, deputy secretary of Party Committee of CCNU, Tan Genwen, executive deputy director of the Committee of Caring for the Next Generation of CCNU, Duan Wei, president of Hubei Chinese Poetry Society, and officials of relevant units of CCNU attended the ceremony. With the theme of "Inspiring youthful ambition, learning history and remembering great events", this competition was actively publicized and mobilized in colleges and universities. With the extensive participation of college students, nearly 1000 works were received. It was a vivid practice of Party history learning and education.
In the speech, Chen Diming expressed that this activity had strengthened the patriotism education and revolutionary traditional education of college students in Hubei province, contributed to carrying forward the excellent Chinese traditional culture and guided young students to keep the historical mission in mind and inherit the national spirit, hoping that everyone would forge ahead bravely in the new era and practice the youth oath of "Please rest assured, we are ready to build a powerful China".
At the event, the "Guang Wei Ran" Cultural Confidence Propaganda Group of CCNU recited the poem "Song for Dreams (Group Poem)", which won the grand prize.
Nanhu Calligraphy and Painting Association held a calligraphy display of the first prize prose "Dreammaker (Excerpt)"
Bi Chen read out the list of winners of the competition, and the leaders presented the prizes to the winners in turn, inspiring the young students to “sing the main melody of the new era”.
The guests visited the exhibition of outstanding works and calligraphy together.
To commemorate the "12.9th" student patriotic movement, the Committee of the Communist Youth League of CCNU successfully held the first "12.9th" Poetry Invitational Competition in Wuhan in 1984. With the gradual expansion of its influence, the competition was upgraded from a regional event in Wuhan to an event in Hubei Province, and the content of the competition was expanded to poetry and prose works. So far, the "12.9th" poetry and prose contest has been successfully held up to 37th. With their original works, young students enthusiastically eulogized the great achievements of socialist modernization and expressed their praise to the glorious history and great achievements of the Party in the past century. The contest has not only enlivened the atmosphere of campus literary creation, promoted the construction of campus spiritual civilization and campus culture development, but also became an important carrier for the construction of socialist college campus culture with Chinese characteristics in Hubei Province.
The event was sponsored by the Hubei Provincial Students' Federation and CCNU, organized by the Committee of the Communist Youth League and the Student Union of CCNU, and co-organized by the School of Chinese Language and Literature of CCNU.
Source: Online News of CCNU
Translator: Shan Jiaqi
Reviewer: Hua Siyao
Date: December 20, 2021
