MUST Student Won the 3^rd prize
at the 29^th China Daily “21^st Century Cup” National English Speaking Competition

On October 16-21, Vong Nga In, a fifth-year student of Faculty of Medicine, MUST, won the third prize in the final of the 29^th "21^st Century Cup" National English Speaking Competition held in Wuxi, Jiangsu. This is also the 17^th consecutive year that MUST students have advanced to the final and won awards.

The "21^st Century Cup" National English Speaking Competition was founded by China Daily in 1996. As the English learning competition with highest academic specifications and most rigorous organization in China, the competition has always received strong support and high attention from international authoritative English teaching institutions and education-related departments. First-class experts from famous international English teaching organizations, the press, foreign embassies and consulates in China, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as famous domestic and foreign universities are invited to participate in the judging panel of the final competition. More than one million people participated and watch the competition. The official website of the competition and many well-known domestic press has reported on the competition in detail.

From the left：Assistant professor of UIC, Dr. Lei Kai Cheong and MUST student Vong Nga In

This year's competition was launched in March 2024 and lasted for six months. The contestants cover colleges and universities across the country. After multiple selection from campus competitions or regional preliminaries, regional semi-finals, and regional finals, outstanding contestants were selected from nearly 100,000 college students out of 1,000 institutions of higher learning in various regions across the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan to compete on the same stage in the final.

In the final, after intense competition in various links of prepared speeches and impromptu speeches, Vong Nga In, representing the Macau region, with fluent English, elegant stage presence, agile thinking and organizational ability, has expressed her unique and convincing views on various topics, showing excellent language comprehensive ability, cultural communication ability and speculative ability. Finally, she stood out successfully and won the third prize. At the same time, Dr. Lei Kai Cheong, assistant professor of the University International College of MUST, as her tutor, also received the prestigious honor of the Third prize for the Best Tutor Award.