In order to strengthen teachers enthusiasm in teaching the knowledge about ocean and lead students to explore the mysteries of the ocean; to inspire students to read more marine books and envision the future of the ocean; to test the harvest and results since the implementation of the "ocean-related talents cultivation program"; and to celebrate and enrich the 13th "World Oceans Day" on June 8, the China Oceanic Development Foundation (hereinafter referred to as "the Foundation") held a "Double Presentation" competition activity for all teachers and students of 35 schools under the "ocean-related talents cultivation program" . The "Double Presentation" refers to the speech activity that the teachers deliver a presentation of a great class about the ocean and students give a presentation about their love to the ocean".

On May 31, the Foundation held the cloud award ceremony of the "Double Presentation" on I Love Ocean competition in Beijing. Lv Bin, President of the Foundation, Pan Xinchun, Deputy President and Secretary General, and Xiang Youquan, Deputy Secretary General, Xu Qinglin, Executive Vice President of the Beijing Speech and Oratorical Association, and principals, teachers and students of the "ocean-related talents cultivation program" schools and related media participated in this cloud award ceremony. The ceremony was hosted by Xiang Youquan, Deputy Secretary General of the Foundation.

Site of "Double Presentation" on I Love Ocean competition cloud award ceremony

President Lv Bin emphasized in his speech that China is a large ocean country, with not only 9.6 million square kilometers of land territory, but also 3 million square kilometers of blue territory -- the ocean. The Outline of the Fourteenth Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of the People's Republic of China and the Vision 2035 puts forward the requirement of concertedly promoting marine ecological protection, accelerating the development of a maritime power and creating a sustainable marine ecological environment. This requires not only strong maritime economy, military power, science and technology and other hard power, but also the strong support of other soft power such as maritime culture, maritime education, and maritime awareness. A nation will prosper only when its young people thrive; A country will be strong only when its young people are strong. To this end, Lv Bin made an appeal, hoping that teachers lead students to study marine knowledge, to train reserve talents for the national marine industry; hoping that students set up ambitious life ideals, committed to the development of marine science and technology, the growth of marine economy, and the protection of marine ecological environment, turning China from a large marine country to a strong maritime power.

Lv Bin, President of China Oceanic Development Foundation, delivered a speech

Pan Xinchun, Deputy President and Secretary General of China Oceanic Development Foundation, read out the winners of the first, second and third prizes of the competition. Among them, 3 teachers won the first prize, 6 teachers won the second prize, 9 teachers won the third prize and 12 teachers won the excellent prize in the competition of the teachers' presentations; 10 students won the first prize, 20 students won the second prize, 30 students won the third prize and 40 students won the excellent prize in the competition of the students' presentations. He described the award ceremony as a big gathering, a great reunion and unity of the schools of the "ocean-related talents cultivation program", as a major sharing of school experience, a major competition of teachers' teaching and a major display of students' style. The "Double Presentation" activity is a competition with the widest participation of teachers and students among all the activities related to the program.

Pan Xinchun, Deputy President and Secretary General of China Oceanic Development Foundation, read out the list of winners

Xu Qinglin, as a representative of the judges, made a review and comment on the student speech entries and shared how to make a good speech. His statement benefits the students a lot. He fully affirmed the positive impact of the competition on students. Through material collection, speech preparation and expression training, the participating students not only mastered marine knowledge, but also improved and exercised their logical thinking skills. They expressed their knowledge of the sea, love for the territorial sea, loyalty to the motherland and longing for the future with deep emotion, which helps cultivate and promote a new generation of marine talents.

Xu Qinglin, Executive Vice President of the Beijing Speech and Oratorical Association, commented on the speech works

Xiang Youquan, Deputy Secretary General of the China Oceanic Development Foundation and Deputy Director of the Marine Advisory Center of the Ministry of Natural Resources, presided over the ceremony

In addition, He Biao, Party Secretary and Principal of Pengshui First Middle School in Chongqing, Zhang Xin, a teacher of Chongqing Wanzhou Senior High School, and Yang Yushuwei, a student of Qixingguan Dongchen Experimental School in Bijie, Guizhou Province, spoke as representatives of participating schools, winning teachers and winning students, respectively.

He Biao, Party Secretary and Principal of Pengshui First Middle School in Chongqing, delivered a speech

Zhang Xin, a teacher of Chongqing Wanzhou Senior High School, delivered a speech

Yang Yushuwei, a student of Qixingguan Dongchen Experimental School in Bijie, Guizhou Province, delivered a speech

It is learned that since 2017, the Foundation has been building the ocean-related talents cultivation program of "Donating Ocean Libraries, Cultivating Youth Talents" and has so far donated 36 marine libraries in 17 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government), including Jiangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan, Xinjiang and Tibet, in the old revolutionary areas, poor areas, minority areas and border areas. Through the ocean-related talents cultivation program, students read marine books, listen to expert lectures, participate in knowledge competitions, write articles to award-winning essay competition, take part in marine summer camps and other interesting activities, which broadens their horizons, makes them learn about the ocean, enriches them with knowledge and dreams. Up to now, the program has benefited more than 130,000 students.