On 21 May, the opening ceremony for the final round of the first "Chinese-Malay" translation competition was successfully held by the Confucius Institute at UTS in Zhengzhou (China), Sibu (Malaysia) and other places through an online platform. The Minister of Chinese Embassy in Malaysia Mr. Tang Rui, President of Han Culture Centre Malaysia and President of the Malaysian Association of Translation and Creative Writings Dato' Goh Hin San, Vice President of North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power (NCWU) Liu Xuemei and Director of Center for International Relations of University of Technology Sarawak (UTS) Dr. Wong Sing Sing attended the opening ceremony and delivered speeches.
The first "Chinese-Malay" Translation Competition has invited six well-known experts including Associate Professor Goh Sang Seong from the University of Science Malaysia as the judges. The competition has attracted 333 college students and secondary school students from 60 schools in Malaysia to participate. After the preliminary selection in the form of online competition, a total of 100 secondary school students and 16 college students were selected to enter the final round.
After 4 hours of intense competition, six students including Cindy Lim Shin Yee from SMJK Chung Hua Miri and Wong Horng Shann from SMK Deshon won the first prize in the secondary school category. Ku Jia Wen, a malaysian student studying in China won the first prize in the category of college group.
The First "Chinese-Malay" Translation Competition was organized by CI at UTS while co-organized by Kongzi Institute at the Universiti Malaya, CI at SEGi University, CI at Universiti of Malaysia Pahang and CI at Universiti Malaysia Sabah with the strong support from the Chinese Embassy in Malaysia. Through this competition, the people-to-people and cultural exchanges between China and Malaysia could be promoted. Not only that, this competition could cultivate the translation talents to pursue the Belt and Road Initiative, and develop new achievements in the economic and trade cooperation between China and Malaysia.
