MALANSHAN, CHINA - Media OutReach - 1 February 2021 - The award ceremony ofthe 5th Hunan OnlineOriginal Audiovisual Programs Contest was held at the Malanshan Video Culturaland Creative Industrial Park on January 15, 2021. Works from the Second Youth Video Cultural andCreative Online Training Camp themed "My YouthVision, Create Better Life" were shown in the Contest and won awards. At thispoint, the Second Youth Video Cultural and Creative Online Training Camp, directed by the Hunan Provincial Party Committee United Front Work Department and jointly held by the Communist Youth League Committee of Hunan Province, the Hunanprovincial Party Committee Taiwan Affairs Office, and the Hunan provincialParty Committee Hong Kong-Macao Affairs Office, concluded with success.

Won several awards in the 5th Hunan Online Original Audiovisual ProgramsContest

In the 5th HunanOnline Original Audiovisual Programs Contest, works of Hong Kong, Macao, andTaiwan students from the Second Youth Video Cultural andCreative Online Training Camp stood out among334 entries. Make A Wish to the Stars created by the youngsters from Taiwan wonthe second prize in the category of Short Film of College Students; Show MyLove to My Country with Youth by the youngsters from Macao and A Trip toKowloon Bay by the youngsters from Hong Kong won the third prize in thecategory of Online Short Video.

The Second Youth Video Cultural and Creative Online Training Camp took place inthree stages: recruitment and training, entry solicitation, and entry appraisaland prize-awarding. The event was organized by the Hunan Foundation for YouthEntrepreneurship and Employment and co-organized by the HongKong Federation of Youth Groups, the Hunan-Macao Youth Exchange and PromotionAssociation, and the Cross-Straits Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Baseof Hunan Province.

Foster creative talents and inspire theinnovation and business potentials of video cultural and creative youngstersfrom Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan

Online recruitment: Overcoming the blowfrom the COVID-19 pandemic, this camp began to recruit youngsters who areinterested in the video cultural and creative industry from August 2020. Morethan 200 new college graduates, previous college students, employed youths,youth entrepreneurs from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan signed up for the camp.

Thetheory and practice of training via DingTalk online classroom: The online theoryand practice of training was held from October 10 to 11 via DingTalk classroom,enabling the youngsters from Hunan, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan to studytogether despite the limitations imposed by the pandemic and transportation.The organizer invited the senior directors Zeng Jianfeng and Chen Peng to bethe mentors, who introduced the cultural connotations in the outstandingdocumentaries about Hunan. The training encouraged communication among theyoungsters and helped the youngsters from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan to havea thorough understanding of the video cultural and creative industry in Hunan.

Activeparticipation of the youngsters from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan: During the entrysolicitation, the youngsters were encouraged to apply what they had learnedinto production, to observe the society, and to narrate the stories about HongKong, Macao, and Taiwan with their lenses. Selected works were entered for the5th Hunan OnlineOriginal Audiovisual Programs Contest, showing youth creativity andtraining results of this camp.

Hot discussion among netizens in social mediaplatforms: The media coverage of the Second Youth Video Cultural and Creative Online Training Camp has been exposedin various media platforms such as Weibo, Jinri Toutiao, and online media, andtriggered hot discussion among netizens. Weibo topics, such as"Hunan&My Youth Vision Video Cultural and Creative Contest", "My YouthVision Video Cultural and Creative Contest", were read by over 10 millionpeople, ranking top 3 in Weibo's top trending list of Hunan. News aboutthe camp was recommended by mediaplatforms as Sohu News and Baidu News, attracting hundreds of thousandsof netizens' attention to the creative powers of youth videos.

Build abenchmark to develop the long-term talent training and exchange mechanism inHunan, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan

Continuing last year's theme: My Youth Vision,Create Better Life, the Second Youth Video Cultural andCreative Online Training Camp focuses onHunan's competitive industry, the video cultural and creative industry,facilitates the cultural exchanges among the youngsters from Hunan, Hong Kong,Macao, and Taiwan, and builds the benchmark for cultural communications amongthe youngsters. The brand of video cultural and creative youngsters is developed forHunan, fostering the cultural IP of My Youth Vision, Create Better Life, andsetting up the long-term talent training and exchange mechanism in Hunan, HongKong, Macao, and Taiwan.