As an international Chinese proficiency competition sponsored by the Center for Language Education and Cooperation of the Chinese Ministry of Education, the Chinese Bridge has brought together over 1.8 million young people from more than 160 countries since its launch in 2002. Following the passion for cultural communication, Jinyun has created Youth and Chinese Bridge, a short video series, to capture the touching moments of language exchange.
After three years, Gong Ximei(Irina Kuchinskaia) from Russia participated in the Chinese Bridge competition once again. Inside the competition venue, she transformed into a “marketing specialist” by mixing fluent Chinese with six dialects, delivering witty remarks that ignited the entire venue. Outside the competition venue, the corner outside the downstairs of her dormitory became her exclusive “extra practice ground,” where she silently recited her manuscript over and over again in order to get closer to her dream. On her journey of learning Chinese for ten years, from being guided by her grandfather to her determination to become a diplomat, she took her passion as her pen and wrote an unforgettable Chinese story on the Chinese Bridge stage…
