On August 22, the grand final of the 18th Chinese Bridge-Chinese Proficiency Competition for Foreign College Students was held in the studio of the Base for International Promotion of Chinese Language and Culture in Hunan Mass Media Vocational and Technical College. The one-month competition completed with a perfect ending. Du Jiahao, the Secretary of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee and Director of the Hunan Provincial People's Congress, Xu Dazhe, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee and Governor of the People's Government of Hunan Province, Li Weiwei, the Chairman of the Hunan Provincial Political Consultative Conference, Liu Limin, Member of the Council of the Confucius Institute Headquarters and the President of the China Education Association for International Exchange , Wu Lan, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee, Ma Jianfei, the Secretary of the Party Committee and Deputy Director-general of the Confucius Institute Headquarters, Hu Henghua, Member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and the Secretary of the Changsha Municipal Party Committee, Zhang Jianfei, Member of the Standing Committee and the Secretary-general of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee, Wang Kemin, Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress, He Baoxiang, Vice Governor of the People's Government of Hunan Province, Dai Daojin, Vice Chairman of the Hunan Provincial Political Consultative Conference, Zhao Guocheng, Deputy Director-general of the Confucius Institute Headquarters, were present at the competition and awarded the prize-winners.

Yuan Weikun, the Secretary of the Party Committee of HNMMC, and Ma Yujun, the President of HNMMC were welcoming guests from all parties.

As a co-organizer of the competition, Yuan Weikun, the Secretary of the Party Committee of Hunan Mass Media Vocational and Technical College, and President Ma Yujun also attended the competition.

The general final was hosted by well-known TV presenters, Wang Han and Jin Mengjia. The panel of judges was composed of Hai Xia, famous presenter of CCTV, Zhao Dongmei, professor of the Department of History at Peking University, and Yi Fucheng, President of the Confucius Institute at Russian State University for the Humanities.

The competition kicked off in the opening show of the “Chinese Bridge of the World” co-starred by the champions of five continents, the top 15 contestants and the Chinese language observation group. This year's grand final created the concept of “circle of friend” and integrated the concept of “world's circle of friends” into the topic design and sessions of the general final. It was mainly divided into three sessions. The first one was the “Friends Circle of Dami”. Through the WeChat Moments of the upperclassman Dami in Chinese Bridge, the colorful lives of Dami’s five foreign friends in five cities of China were displayed in the form of VLOG. At the same time, the questions were taken from the videos. The second session was a drama performance show. The champions of five continents “returned” to Chinese Tang Dynasty, and entered Li Bai’s circle of friends, reinterpreting the friendship between Li Bai and Zhao Heng (Abeno Nakamaro) in history. The performance demonstrated the epitome of the era of the friendship between China and other countries during the flourishing period of Tang Dynasty, and the attraction and charisma of the traditional Chinese culture to the people of the world in all ages. This session also examined the comprehensive ability of contestants’ Chinese language by means of situational deduction. The third session was the peak duel. Contestant Shi Yu from Egypt and Contestant Jiang Tiangai from Myanmar competed in the final battle for the global grand champion.

While competing for the Chinese proficiency, the general final was also interspersed with the Chinese cultural show Oriental New Rhyme, the multinational cultural performance Play a Tambourine and Sing a Song, the song Can You Feel the Love Tonight and other wonderful performances. Sari from Cambodia told a touching story about the Belt and Road from his experience of achieving dreams by learning Chinese.

Through three sessions of fierce competitions, Shi Yu from African group won the Grand Champion of the 18th Chinese Bridge-Chinese Proficiency Competition for Foreign College Students, and was awarded the title of “Chinese Star” and “Chinese Language Ambassador”. Xiao Ma from Oceanian group won the prize of “Excellent Elegant Demeanor”, Jin Leisheng from Asian group won the prize of “Excellent Eloquence”, Jiang Tiangai from Asian group won the prize of “the Most Popular Contestant Online”.

Mr. Du Jiahao, Mr. Xu Dazhe and other leaders respectively presented awards to the winners.

After the competition, Mr. Du Jiahao, Mr. Xu Dazhe and other provincial leaders as well as leaders of the Confucius Institute Headquarters cordially met with the contestants and cast members and took group photos.

The theme of this year's “Chinese Bridge” is “One World, One Family”, with 157 contestants from 144 competition regions in 122 countries. On July 21, a team of 16 professional teachers and 12 student volunteers from HNMMC went to Beijing, completing a series of preliminary work, such as picking up the contestants from the airport, registration, pre-competition’s professional counseling, organizing contestants to experience Beijing’s culture. From July 25, the contestants arrived at the college to participate in the Cross-Bridge competition, the semi-final, the finals, the grand final, which lasted for one month. Since the Chinese Bridge-Chinese Proficiency Competition for Foreign College Students was settled in Hunan Province in 2008, especially the Base for International Promotion of Chinese Language and Culture established by the Confucius Institute Headquarters in Hunan has settled in HNMMC, the college has held twelve Chinese Bridge-Chinese Proficiency Competitions for Foreign College Students successfully.