On the evening of May 12, the 6th National Artistic Performance Event for college students came to an end in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. The dance Youth Not Wasted (instructor: Lu Zhang ) selected by ZUFE won the first prize in Group A of the Artistic Performance and the Outstanding Creation Award. As the only show on behalf of Zhejiang Province, it opened the ceremony for this Event. Meanwhile, ZUFE won the honor of the Outstanding Organization Award.
This Artistic Performance Event is currently the highest-level, largest-scale, and most influential art gala for college students in China. The dance Youth Not Wasted is an original work of students in ZUFE's art troupe to pay tribute to the CPC's centenary ceremony, based on the stories of college students’ village officials in Zhejiang Province, which depicted their spiritual world and scenes to strive for rural development. They plunged into rural areas to guide the villagers to engage in rural construction and dedicated their youth and wisdom against the background of the Rural Revitalization Strategy, aiming to inspire more youngsters to make progress aligned with the motherland, shoulder the responsibilities given by the times, realize the value of youth in the construction of new rural areas, and make dreams bloom in the countryside.
As a vital platform for testing the results of public art education in colleges and universities nationwide, this Event was highly valued by school leaders, who had visited and encouraged the instructors and students who participated in this race many times during their on-site training. Recent years have witnessed that ZUFE has been continuously improving the construction of the public art education system, vigorously promoting the conducting of work related to public art education, and significantly heightening the performance of various works of art in this Artistic Performance Event for college students. ZUFE would take this event as an opportunity to continue to strengthen the construction of public art education, constantly promote the reform of aesthetic education and make campus culture flourish, focusing on improving the effectiveness of cultural education and boosting the all-round development of students' moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and labour education.
With themes of "Struggle, Innovation, and Dedication", this grand art event attracted more than 6,800 teachers and students in 264 teams from 198 colleges and universities across the country. The events were divided into four categories: art performance, artistic practice workshops for university students, artistic works, and excellent cases for aesthetic education reform and innovation of higher education institutions, with a total of 12 artistic performance events held, involving five types of vocal music, instrumental music, dance, drama, and recitation. In addition, 253 works of art from 43 artistic practice workshops were displayed. At the same time, social practice activities with five themes and 10 routes were also launched and conducted.
