# Young winners of Campus News Awards urged to be storytellers

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- Published: 2026-11-05T07:33:00+07:00
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SHENZHEN, China, Nov. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Young journalists from Hong Kong, Macao,
Taiwan and — for the first time — Southeast Asia on Monday were honored for their
inspirational works at the annual **Campus News Awards**, with officials and industry
heavyweights calling on them to serve as storytellers to tell China’s stories well.

 [⌊Student winners pose with their certificates at the 2026 Campus News Awards Presentation Ceremony at the Shenzhen Research Institute of the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Shenzhen on Oct 26, 2026. (ADAM LAM/CHINA DAILY)⌉](https://mmx.prnasia.com/media/MS2027168/20261104074625EST_image_1.jpg?id=OA3057662&p=medium600)

Student winners pose with their certificates at the 2026 Campus News Awards Presentation
Ceremony at the Shenzhen Research Institute of the Chinese University of Hong Kong
in Shenzhen on Oct 26, 2026. (ADAM LAM/CHINA DAILY)

The Campus News Awards 2026, organized by China Daily Hong Kong, unveiled the latest
results in Shenzhen this year, as the city is gearing up for the 2026 Asia-Pacific
Economic Cooperation meeting next month. Over 300 guests, including government officials,
student and teacher representatives, and experts, and university professors from
across the Taiwan Strait and the Hong Kong and Macao SARs attended the presentation
ceremony at The Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Shenzhen Research Institute (SZRI).

Hong Kong Deputy Chief Secretary for Administration Cheuk Wing-hing, who spoke at
the ceremony, encouraged students to hone both the hard knowledge and soft skills
of the journalism profession, and serve well as storytellers so that they can tell
China’s stories well.

"We are now at the golden era, with the opening year of the nation’s 15th Five-Year
Plan (2026-30) and further elevating high-level opening-up. The news media, in particular,
must give full play to its international communication power and competitiveness,
to contribute to expanding the international circle of friends," he said.

"I have always firmly believed that whether journalism is presented through text,
images, or other media, its value lies in recording the changes of the times, chronicling
social conditions and public sentiment, and building an information bridge for people-
to-people exchange across the international community and for mutual learning among
civilizations," he added, encouraging students to continue to serve as a bridge 
between Chinese and Western cultures and make good use of innovative technologies
in reporting.

China Daily Deputy Editor-in-Chief Liu Weiling said that the awards recognize outstanding
young students and, more importantly, aim to build a bridge for deepening young 
people’s exchanges and promoting the integration of technology and culture against
the backdrop of an open, innovative, and cooperative Asia-Pacific region.

Liu said that more than 100 universities and over 3,000 students took part in this
year’s competition, with the number of submitted works exceeding 1,000 for the first
time.

This year marks the 15th edition of the awards, which for the first time invited
universities from Southeast Asia to participate, Liu said, adding that students’
topics are more closely aligned with the times.

"In the face of profound changes brought by new technologies such as artificial 
intelligence, we have seen young journalism students’ keen insight, critical spirit
of daring to question, and genuine humanistic care for the world," Liu said.

Albert Chow Hing-pong, vice-president (administration) of the Chinese University
of Hong Kong, said the submitted works fully demonstrate students’ keen social insight
and innovative spirit, reflecting their great passion and optimism for the journalism
profession.

"Currently, global development has undergone profound changes, and technology is
reshaping the media ecosystem. I hope students will continue to serve as a bridge
between Chinese and Western cultures, tell the world a true and comprehensive China
story, make good use of innovative technologies in reporting, while upholding ethics
and justice, encouraging and learning from participants from different regions, 
and jointly contributing to social progress," Chow said.

Linda Choy Siu-min, MTR Corp’s corporate affairs and branding director, said the
AI era allows anyone to be a journalist, with independent voices capable of rivaling
established institutions at a moment’s notice. Consequently, credible, high-quality
journalism is more vital than ever, she said.

Emphasizing that credibility is paramount, Choy said that factual integrity and 
sound judgment are indispensable. Developing and maintaining a sharp journalistic
intuition cannot be outsourced to algorithms and large language models alone, she
added.

As one of the judges of the awards, Choy said that in judging this year’s works,
she believes that traditional journalism will always retain its core strengths —
closely relevant topics tied to the times, and depth and warmth.

This year’s competition featured 21 prizes — 20 categories for news entries covering
writing, photography, and multimedia, plus one special award for the most active
participation. Among them, while focusing on traditional news reporting and writing,
the awards specially introduced the Best News Reporting on Integrated Development
of Technology, and the Best ASEAN Photography awards, hoping students will not only
be witnesses of the AI era, but also practitioners who use lenses and pens to engage
in technological transformation. A total of 101 universities, including 74 from 
the mainland, eight from Hong Kong, four from Macao, nine from Taiwan, and six universities
from member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations competed for
the various awards.

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Organized by China Daily Hong Kong since 2012, CNA is a prominent exchange platform
for journalism students, and aims to encourage college students to actively participate
in campus news reporting and hone their all-around skills as future journalists.

Next month, Shenzhen will host the 33rd APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting. As a key
cultural exchange activity for APEC "China Year" and a warm-up event for the APEC,
the 2026 Changing Asia photo exhibition, jointly curated by China Daily and the 
Asia News Network, was held from Oct 26-30 at SZRI.

This year’s exhibition, featuring bonding moments, echoes APEC’s theme of "Building
an Asia-Pacific Community to Prosper Together".

After fierce competition, 97 works by 54 photographers from 17 countries and regions
were selected for exhibition from among 2,200 submissions by 330 photographers.

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