China News Service, Lanzhou, September 23 (Wen Shuyao) "While studying in Lanzhou, walking on the old streets of Hadapu and standing on the loess slopes of Dadunliang, I can more clearly hear the call of the times. We cannot just be bystanders of red history, but must be recorders and inheritors." said Ding Yidan, an undergraduate at the School of Journalism and Communication at Lanzhou University.
From September 19th to 23rd, the National Finals of the 16th National College Student Red Tourism Creative Planning Competition was held in Huining, Gansu Province. Young students from all over the country gathered at the revolutionary holy place where the three main forces of the Red Army victoriously met. They used their youthful footprints to measure the red land, and used their youthful creativity to write about their mission.
The competition has the theme of "Strive for the Long March into the New Era". Since its launch in March this year, it has attracted the participation of 1,045 universities, 6,077 teams, more than 30,000 teachers and students across the country, and collected 5,412 works.
After fierce competition, 60 teams advanced to the national finals. Six teams from Fujian Normal University, Guangxi Normal University, Beijing International Studies University, Central China Normal University, Haikou Institute of Economics, and Kunming University of Communication won the special prize. 18 teams from Nankai University, Beijing Sports University, Shenzhen University, etc. won the first prize.
Chu Deping, a professor at Fujian Normal University, has led students to participate in the competition for 13 consecutive years. He said that the competition has an all-round, three-dimensional, and progressive educational traction effect. Their team relies on the Red Brigade Competition to build a four-dimensional collaborative education system and fully integrate the competition concept, creative logic, practice paradigm, and evaluation standards into daily practical teaching.
This competition is sponsored by the Resource Development Department of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Gansu Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, and Beijing International Studies University. During the finals, the shortlisted teachers and students followed the footsteps of the Red Army and walked into the Long March Victory Garden, the Red Army Primary School, the Huining Cultural Center, and visited the old site of the Red Army’s Huining Reunion Division. They immersed themselves in the spirit of the great Long March through ideological and political courses such as studying, collecting, and walking.
Based on the perspective of youth and clever use of AI empowerment, participating teachers and students competed on the same stage in six major tracks: red travel route design, red study course plan design, red cultural and creative product design, red footprint micro video, red spiritual micro explanation, and red story micro comics, interpreting the original intention of red with diverse creativity. The fire of faith in the "Half Belt", the turbulent years of "Changing Shoes", and the sincere craftsmanship of the reunion badges. Each piece of work with bones and warmth makes the story of the Long March feel and pass on.
At the reporting and performance site, the presenters presented awards to teachers and students who won the special prize, first prize, second prize, best instructor award, best organization award, best creativity award and best style award. Representatives of the winning teams displayed their outstanding works. The Beijing International Studies University Student Art Troupe, Gansu Provincial Television and others jointly presented the Red Brigade Competition-themed song and dance "Toward the Distance", excerpts from the situational dance drama "Rewalking", the situational poetry drama "Reply Under the Red Star", the creative music poetry and painting "Huining Picture Scroll" and other programs. The performance came to an end with the chorus "Singing the Motherland".
Xiao Qiyue, a master's student at the School of Tourism Science at Beijing International Studies University, said: "The Red Brigade Competition taught me that in order to impress people, red culture cannot rely on cool technology or stop at grand narratives, but must break down the story into bricks so that history can be touched, culture can be carried away, and stories can be told."
Over the years, the competition has used competitions to promote learning and competitions to promote teaching. It has developed into a brand competition covering more than a thousand universities and hundreds of thousands of teachers and students. Thousands of results have directly served the old revolutionary base areas and promoted the creative transformation and innovative development of red cultural resources.
