The students of the High School Affiliated to Tsinghua University won the first Beijing Middle School Current Affairs Debate Competition

On August 27, 2017, the award ceremony of the first Beijing Middle School Student Current Affairs Debate Competition was held in the Congress Hall of Beijing Foreign Studies School. Wei Yunfan, Zhong Ziqiu, Xiao Hanlei, Wu Menghan, Li Siyu and Yu Yuanyi from the debate team of Tsinghua High School participated in the competition and won great achievements。Among them, Zhong Ziqiu of Grade 16 and Wei Yunfan of Grade 15 won the title of "Excellent debater" respectively;Tsinghua High School wins "Excellent Organization Award"。

After the award ceremony, Wei Yunfan said that the debate competition is a test of teamwork, mental agility, data preparation and many other aspects of the competition。After participating in the debate competition, I felt that I benefited a lot. I not only improved my debating skills, but also learned a lot about national current affairs and policies through preparing the topics。Zhong Ziqiu believes that debate is a collision of thinking, and learning how to establish a good way of thinking, values, and teamwork is much more important than who is right or wrong in the debate。

The debate team of the Affiliated High School of Tsinghua University is composed of the outstanding debaters selected from the first junior high school "Luming" debate competition in 2016-2017。Under the guidance of the two teachers, Zhou Cun and Wei Yuanyuan, the six students actively prepared for the competition, and paid a lot of hard work and efforts. At the same time, they also exercised their own abilities, gained friendship and growth in the process。

The Beijing Middle School Current Affairs Debate Competition is guided by the Municipal Education Commission and hosted by the Middle School Current Affairs Newspaper. It aims to guide students to pay attention to and think about hot social issues, establish a correct view of right and wrong, improve their critical thinking ability, and exercise their speech eloquence。The competition organized district-level trials in many districts in Beijing, and nearly 10,000 middle school students participated。Since May 6, 2017, 42 outstanding debate teams from schools recommended by each district have participated in the competition that lasted nearly four months in the Affiliated High School of Beijing University of Technology to debate friends and show their style。