Youth Fine Writing Competition Award-winning Works Collection

Author: Jia Pingwa et al
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Publish Date: 2006-01-27
Features: Meiwen is a magazine mainly featuring essays and prose, edited by the renowned writer Jia Pingwa. The "Global Chinese Youth Meiwen Writing Competition" it organizes is known as the "Chinese Youth Nobel Prize in Literature." In the winning works of this edition, five were included in high school Chinese textbooks. This year's competition was set by numerous distinguished experts such as Gu Zhenbiao, Chen Zhongshi, Yu Hua, Xiong Zhaozheng, Chen Sihe, Zhang Dawen, and Yang Liwei, with over 300,000 young students participating to challenge the Gaokao essays. The "Global Chinese Youth Meiwen Writing Competition" is jointly organized by Meiwen magazine and the Chinese Youth Literature Network. It has been successfully held for two editions and is hailed as the "Chinese Youth Nobel Prize in Literature." The first competition offered a substantial prize pool of 1.01 million yuan, attracting over 80,000 young students from both China and abroad. Among the three gold medal winners, two were admitted to Peking University and Nanjing University, while the third went abroad for studies. All ten winners of the grand prize were admitted to key universities across the country. Five winning works from the first competition were selected for national unified textbooks. This year's competition saw over 300,000 participants, marking an unprecedented scale.