Wuhan hosts BRI Short Video Competition Award ceremony

The award ceremony of the Second Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) Short Video Competition was held in Wuhan in Central China’s Hubei Province, aiming to share the stories of builders and beneficiaries from countries along the BRI.

The competition, coorganized by the China Public Diplomacy Association, the News Center of the Stateowned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC), and Global Times Online, was held in Wuhan on Friday.

With the theme of “Act in Solidarity,” the second BRI short video competition continues to focus on the BRI while carrying forward the ideas of planning that were a part of the first competition.

By collecting short video stories from builders and beneficiaries, from countries all along the Belt and Road, the competition helps build a community with a shared future for mankind.

Launched in mid-July and ended at the end of September, the competition received more than 500 entries from nearly 80 countries, and 10 final award winners of this competition were announced.

Seven state-owned enterprises in Hubei received awards.

According to incomplete statistics, the entries of this competition have received more than 300 million views, including nearly 50 million views overseas.

The wonderful videos of this competition were not only posted and displayed on the exclusive voting platform Kwai with the hashtag of “#Footprints and Memories#”, but also published on Douyin, Bilibili, and Tencent Video, as well as overseas social media platforms such as Facebook,

Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok.

“The short video competition was a concrete action of telling Chinese stories, an example of people-to-people exchanges between China and foreign countries, and also a lively public diplomatic activity,” Wu Hailong, president of China Public Diplomacy Association said at the conference.