On the afternoon of March 21, the closing ceremony of the "Chinese Bridge" online group exchange project,"Explore Shanxi" Online Winter Camp was held,which was hosted by the Sino-foreign Language Exchange Cooperation Center of the Ministry of Education and undertaken by Shanxi University of Finance and Economics. Shen Peilong, member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and vice president, attended the closing ceremony and delivered a speech. Representatives of international students from our school and dozens of overseas students gathered online to jointly draw a successful conclusion to this cultural journey full of Chinese culture and showing the local customs of Shanxi province.

This "Explore Shanxi" Online Winter Camp is the first time that a college in Shanxi province has successfully been approved for the "Chinese Bridge" project sponsored by the Sino-foreign Language Exchange and Cooperation Center of the Ministry of Education. The three-week activities, with the theme of "Explore Shanxi", integrates Chinese cultural lectures, Chinese cultural experience and course live broadcasts by means of combining live broadcast and video class. The five sections of Chinese learning, lectures on Chinese culture, experience of Chinese culture, exploringmuseum and studyingin Shanxi, show the beautiful images of China and Shanxi to overseas campers, telling the long history and culture, the oral stories of Shanxi merchants, and the trip of overseas students to China. This event was widely praised by 169 campers from 16 countries. Shanxi Satellite TV and China News Agency paid close attention to it,and it was reproduced by domestic mainstream media for many timessuch as People.cn and Xuexi.cn.