The Second Youth Video Cultural and Creative Online Training Camp Concludes with Success

MALANSHAN, CHINA – Media OutReach – 1 February 2021 – The award ceremony of
the 5th Hunan Online
Original Audiovisual Programs Contest was held at the Malanshan Video Cultural
and Creative Industrial Park on January 15, 2021. Works from the Second Youth Video Cultural and
Creative Online Training Camp themed “My Youth
Vision, Create Better Life” were shown in the Contest and won awards. At this
point, 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 Hunan
provincial Party Committee Taiwan Affairs Office, and the Hunan provincial
Party Committee Hong Kong-Macao Affairs Office, concluded with success.

Won several awards in the 5th Hunan Online Original Audiovisual Programs
Contest

 

In the 5th Hunan
Online Original Audiovisual Programs Contest, works of Hong Kong, Macao, and
Taiwan students from the Second Youth Video Cultural and
Creative Online Training Camp stood out among
334 entries. Make A Wish to the Stars created by the youngsters from Taiwan won
the second prize in the category of Short Film of College Students; Show My
Love to My Country with Youth by the youngsters from Macao and A Trip to
Kowloon Bay by the youngsters from Hong Kong won the third prize in the
category of Online Short Video.

 

The Second Youth Video Cultural and Creative Online Training Camp took place in
three stages: recruitment and training, entry solicitation, and entry appraisal
and prize-awarding. The event was organized by the Hunan Foundation for Youth
Entrepreneurship and Employment and co-organized by the Hong
Kong Federation of Youth Groups, the Hunan-Macao Youth Exchange and Promotion
Association, and the Cross-Straits Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Base
of Hunan Province.

Foster creative talents and inspire the
innovation and business potentials of video cultural and creative youngsters
from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan

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

The
theory and practice of training via DingTalk online classroom: The online theory
and practice of training was held from October 10 to 11 via DingTalk classroom,
enabling the youngsters from Hunan, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan to study
together despite the limitations imposed by the pandemic and transportation.
The organizer invited the senior directors Zeng Jianfeng and Chen Peng to be
the mentors, who introduced the cultural connotations in the outstanding
documentaries about Hunan. The training encouraged communication among the
youngsters and helped the youngsters from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan to have
a thorough understanding of the video cultural and creative industry in Hunan.

 

Active
participation of the youngsters from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan: During the entry
solicitation, the youngsters were encouraged to apply what they had learned
into production, to observe the society, and to narrate the stories about Hong
Kong, Macao, and Taiwan with their lenses. Selected works were entered for the
5th Hunan Online
Original Audiovisual Programs Contest, showing youth creativity and
training results of this camp.

 

Hot discussion among netizens in social media
platforms: The media coverage of the Second Youth Video Cultural and Creative Online Training Camp has been exposed
in various media platforms such as Weibo, Jinri Toutiao, and online media, and
triggered hot discussion among netizens. Weibo topics, such as
“Hunan&My Youth Vision Video Cultural and Creative Contest”, “My Youth
Vision Video Cultural and Creative Contest”, were read by over 10 million
people, ranking top 3 in Weibo’s top trending list of Hunan. News about
the camp was recommended by media
platforms as Sohu News and Baidu News, attracting hundreds of thousands
of netizens’ attention to the creative powers of youth videos.

Build a
benchmark to develop the long-term talent training and exchange mechanism in
Hunan, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan

Continuing last year’s theme: My Youth Vision,
Create Better Life, the Second Youth Video Cultural and
Creative Online Training Camp focuses on
Hunan’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 among
the youngsters. The brand of video cultural and creative youngsters is developed for
Hunan, fostering the cultural IP of My Youth Vision, Create Better Life, and
setting up the long-term talent training and exchange mechanism in Hunan, Hong
Kong, Macao, and Taiwan.