How to register for the 2016 Chinese Newspaper Cup Essay Contest

The New Concept Essay Contest has begun. The beginning, the end. Go and buy an issue of "Sprout" and you'll know it.

New thinking, new expression, real experience.

The 17th National New Concept Essay Contest is scheduled to start on April 1, 2014, co-sponsored by 14 famous universities and budding magazines in China, jointly sponsored by Peking University, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Beijing Normal University, East China Normal University, Nanjing University, Nankai University, Wuhan University, Xiamen University, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhejiang University, Chinese University, Shandong University, Shanghai Theater Academy and Budding Magazine.

The "New Concept" aims to promote:

"New thinking" - creative and divergent thinking, breaking the shackles of old concepts and norms, breaking rigidity and conservatism, and being unrestrained.

"New expression" - not limited by subject matter and genre, using one's own language full of personality, opposing clichés, opposing the same face and one word.

"True experience" - real, real, sincere, sincere attention, feeling, and experience of life.

Participants: Group A Fresh senior high school juniors and sophomores (including third-year students).

Group B: Senior 1 and junior high school students (including 3 school students).

Group C Young people under the age of 30 other than secondary school students.

Participation form: Preliminary and semi-final. The preliminary competition follows the form of essays in general literary publications, with no propositions, no limited themes, genres, and less than 5,000 words, which cannot be published in public publications, and plagiarism or inviting people is strictly prohibited.

Please attach the "Registration Form" to the manuscript, see "Sprout" 2014 No.

Issues 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, "Sprout" (New Concept Composition Edition, Second Half Monthly), 2014.

Fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh issues, only one work can be attached to each registration form, and it should be sent to Sprout Magazine, No. 675 Julu Road, Shanghai, Zip Code: 200040, and the envelope is marked with "New Concept". The winners of the preliminary round of each group participate in the semi-finals; The semi-finals will be held in an examination room.

Students from other places who come to Shanghai to participate in the semi-finals will be provided by the organizing committee for the round-trip train hard seat travel expenses.

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1.Entries should carry forward the main theme, spread positive energy, and be in line with the theme of the competition.

2.Self-proposed essay questions around the theme of the competition, self-selected genre (except poetry), with a word count of no less than 800 words.

3.Each participant can only submit one entry for the competition.

4.Plagiarism and copying are strictly prohibited, and once it is found that there is an infringement of the copyright of others, the entry will be disqualified.

5.Entrants agree to grant the Organizing Committee the right of publication, modification, reproduction, distribution, performance, broadcasting, information network dissemination, filming, compilation and other relevant copyrights of the entries to the Organizing Committee for their own use or to a third party.

6.Before the entries are finalized, please save them to the draft box, and you can modify them in the draft box as many times as you like. After the revision is finalized, click the "Submit" button to submit, and the work cannot be withdrawn after submission.

7.When submitting the work, the personal information of the participant shall not appear in the title bar and the body column, otherwise the participant will be disqualified.

8.When submitting an entry, the body of the work should be indented by two characters (two spaces before the paragraph) and one line before the paragraph in the body of the work.