Participants pose for a photo during the award ceremony for the sixth International College Students New Media Festival and New Media Original Work Contest. [Photo/ourjiangsu.com]
The award ceremony for the sixth International College Students New Media Festival and New Media Original Work Contest was held by Soochow University on Nov 20 in Suzhou, East China's Jiangsu province.
The contest had four categories – videos, audios, panoramas, and ideas and business projects. Submissions could be themed on Chinese culture, the Belt and Road Initiative, rural vitalization, as well as other subjects, said Chen Long, executive director of the School of Communication of Soochow University.
Over 820 students from more than 70 universities, including the Beijing Film Academy, the Communication University of China, Tongji University, and the City University of Hong Kong, submitted 408 works to the contest. Fifty works made the shortlist.
Guo Kai, an official at the publicity department of the Suzhou Municipal Committee of the CPC, expressed hope that the festival can help students who aspire to pursue a career in new media create great ideas and tell China's story to the world better.
Inaugurated in 2015, the new media festival aims to encourage students to innovate and has to date received thousands of works from college students around the world.
