At the recently concluded 2025 World Vocational College Skills Competition Finals, in the Performing Arts Track (Higher Vocational Group), a faculty-student team jointly formed by the School of Film and Television Arts and the School of Visual Arts at HNMMC won the championship with an absolute advantage. This historic achievement marked the first gold medal in this track for vocational colleges in Hunan Province, adding another landmark accomplishment to HNMMC.
As the highest-level and largest-scale event in China’s vocational education field, the Performing Arts Track of 2025 World Vocational College Skills Competition attracted 112 top teams and nearly 1,000 faculty and students from 31 provinces across the country. After five days of intense competition, the team—guided by teachers Wang Caicai and Liu Xianwei from the School of Film and Television Arts, together with Zhao Xujing from the School of Visual Arts, and composed of students Yuan Yingying, Yang Zheng, Deng Jieren, and Jiang Chen from the School of Film and Television Arts—won the highest honor of the competition through superb skills, innovative expression, and distinctive stage presentation.
During the preparation period, the faculty and students, guided by the spirit of “Xiang Army”, persevered under tight schedules and heavy workloads, entering a high-intensity training mode to refine every detail of their performance. The team creatively integrated elements of intangible cultural heritage with popular music, creating an immersive stage effect that combined traditional charm with modern technological flair. The performance vividly told the story of vocational students’ growth in innovative artistic expression, resonating strongly with both judges and audiences.
As a pilot institution for Hunan Province’s comprehensive “threeall-round education” reform, the School of Film and Television Arts at HNMMC has built a talent cultivation system combining “classroom + stage”, integrating learning and performance. Faculty and students have repeatedly won national-level awards. This competition piece, based on real teaching cases from the college, fully demonstrated the staged achievements of the Digital Media Art Design program cluster. Moving forward, the School of Film and Television Arts will continue to leverage high-level competition platforms to deepen educational and teaching innovations, improve the connotation of program development, and cultivate high-quality skilled talents aligned with the needs of the cultural industry, contributing to the in-depth integration and innovative transformation of digital intelligence technologies and Hunan’s musical culture.
