Date: Dec. 11, 2023

Source: JNU’s Committee of Communist Youth League

Author: CAI Xinyi, KAN Zeyu, CHEN Chun

Translator: XIE Naixin

The seventh China Youth Volunteer Service Project Competition and 2023 Volunteer Service Exchange Conference were held in Shantou, Guangdong, from Dec. 1 to 3. At the opening meeting, awards were presented to the representatives of the winning projects of the sixth China Youth Volunteer Service Public Welfare Entrepreneurship Competition. Sea of Voices, China's first public welfare entrepreneurship project to spread the country’s story abroad, created by the School of Journalism and Communication, won the gold award, JNU's first in this competition. Only 10 projects in China have been awarded gold awards.

（the gold award certificate）

（the set of Young Mind, an audio program for youth in the Greater Bay Area）

（The team taking A Young Foreigners Village Tour, one of the Sea of Voices programs）

Sea of Voices, based on JNU's characteristics and discipline advantages, takes the creation and dissemination of digital audio products as an innovative means of media governance and social service. It recruits and organizes young volunteers, especially those from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and overseas Chinese, to participate in research, volunteer service and the production of the audio of China's story. Its motto is Youth Expresses Mainstream Voices and gathers the spiritual strength of youth in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to gain a sense of identity and unity.

The volunteer service team from the “Sea of Voices” project has established partnerships with more than 40 media, including China Central Radio and Television Station, Xuexi Qiangguo APP, Yunting FM, Yueting FM, Huacheng FM, Huaren Toutiao APP (overseas version) and, from Hong Kong, Nowbook APP and Bastille Post. The team completed more than 10,000 audio works in 38 series of projects telling the stories of Guangzhou, the Greater Bay Area, and China, with cumulative streams of more than 1.34 billion. Twelve team members have been among the Top 10 Outstanding Hong Kong Young Men in the Greater Bay Area, Top 10 Outstanding Young Netizens in the Greater Bay Area, Top 10 Outstanding Netizens in Southern Guangdong and Outstanding Netizens in Guangzhou.