ZSTU s Japanese majors win prizes in composition contest

It was revealed that ZSTU s two Japanese majors won prizes in the Sixth Composition Contest in Japanese by Chinese People. The prize winners are Zhou Rongrong, the Second Prize, and Lu Ting, the Third Prize. The Japanese Department of ZSTU s School of Foreign Languages was granted the Gardener Award and 50,000 Japanese Yen worth of books for their efforts to encourage and mobilize students for the Contest.

The Contest was co-hosted by the Sino-Japanese Exchange Institute of the Duan Press, Japanese Embassy in China, People.com of the People s Daily, Sino-Japanese Friendship Association,the Japan-China Society and the Contest received 2,194 essays from 132 universities/colleges or work units from 24 provinces across China.

Starting in 2005, the annual Contest receives papers from over 100 universities/colleges or work units across China each year. When the prize-winners are revealed, their essays are put into monograph and published in Japan. In the past five years, ten collections of the essays have been published which are well-received and praised by readers in both countries. Among the published collections, the book entitled Elimination of Alienation: the Collection of the Prized Essays of the Second Contest of Composition in Japanese by Chinese was quoted as one of the Three Recommended Annual books of the Year by the Book Review Committee of the Asahi Shimbun (Dec 12, 2006).

The Collection of Prized Papers of the Sixth Contest is scheduled to be published at the end of this November and the Prize-awarding Ceremony will be held in Beijing on December 18^th.