Cartoons depict green future
Exhibition aims to promote people-to-people exchanges among China and other countries
Chinese illustrator Zhang Weimang clinched the gold prize of the International Cartoon and Illustration Exhibition on a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind with his work Life and Growth in Nature.
The award ceremony was held in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, on Nov 16. C.B. Shibu Cheriapadath Balan, from India, and Zhou Zuoli, from China, won silver prizes, and Izabela Kowalska-Wieczorek, from Poland, Liu Jiajia and Xie Pengzhen, from China, shared the bronze prizes.
The exhibition was hosted by China Daily and the Wuxi Municipal People’s Government to promote the concept of the joint development of a more peaceful, harmonious, prosperous, open and beautiful world. It has two themes, “Low-Carbon Lifestyles” and “Discovering Wuxi”.
About 3,800 cartoons and illustrations from 50 countries and regions were submitted in the “Low-Carbon Lifestyles” section and 851 of them were from overseas. The “Discovering Wuxi” section received around 600 works from home and abroad.
Zhang said he participated in the competition because Wuxi and China Daily have made a deep impression on him since childhood.
The theme “a community of shared future for mankind” also reminded him of a Chinese saying: When the way of virtue and justice prevailed, the whole world was one community.
Qu Yingpu, publisher and editorin-chief of China Daily, said the concept of building a community of shared future for mankind proposed by Communist Party of China General Secretary Xi Jinping has been widely welcomed and received strong support among the international community.