By Xing Yi

A new storytelling competition will offer prizes up to 20,000 yuan ($2,910) for good tales about China.

“The contest looks for talented storytellers and fascinating China stories that are attractive, and at the same time, easy to understand and share by foreign audiences,” said Wang Guangyi, deputy director of China International Publishing Group, during the launch ceremony of the contest on Monday.

Online registration for the First International Contest for Creative Communication of China Story is open through March, and the stories need to be submitted from June 1 to 30.

Works in different forms are encouraged, including video, design, and virtual reality, but they should be submitted with a supplementary text of storyline between 3,000 to 5,000 words in Chinese or English.

The themes of the stories include Chinese Dream, people, culture and enterprise. Read more

Source: China Daily