From March 5 to March 6, the online (preliminaries) and offline (finals) competitions were held at TUST. Organized by the English Speech and Debate Club of the SFL, the contest was welcomed by contestants from different colleges and majors who enthusiastically participated in this competitive selection event. The topics of the two debates were closely related to the theme of the times, which greatly examined the debaters’ critical thinking and English skills. The competition invited Ren Yan, Yi Long, Zhang Wei, and Chen Youyun of the SFL to judge, two of whom commented on the speeches and expressed their recognition of the wonderful performance.

After two matches, Du Yifei, an undergraduate student majoring in English, and Zhang Jinan, anotherone majoring in English would participate in the regional competition on behalf of the University.

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In order to guide the young college students across the country to actively practice socialist core values, strengthen campus culture construction, help them to develop an international perspective, consolidate their sense of learning, improve their ability in English expression and discernment, tell a good Chinese story in disseminating the voice of China, the 26th “FLTRP·ETIC Cup” National Student English Debate Competition was officially launched by Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU), Foreign Languages Teaching and Research Publishing House (FLTRPH), the Chinese Center for Foreign Language Assessment (CCLA) ofBFSUand Beijing Foreign Studies Online (BFSO) Digital Technology Co. Ltd.