2025 Foreign Students Chinese Speaking Contest

1. Objective: The contest is held to promote foreign students’ understanding Chinese culture, to enhance their interest in learning Chinese and to share multiple perspectives of Taiwan.

2. Supervisor: Ministry of Culture

3. Organizer: National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall

4. Contestant Eligibility:

a.Qualification for entry into the contest requires foreign students to be enrolled in an educational institution in Taiwan. The contestant needs to be at least 18 years of age, and does not hold R.O.C nationality. (Students from China, Hong Kong, and Macau and overseas Chinese students are excluded)

b.In order to encourage new applicants, any prize winners (1st prize through to 4th prize) from the 2024 contest are not eligible to apply.

c.All contestants of whom either their or parent’s first language or official language is Chinese (including dialects) are not eligible to apply for the fairness of the contest.

5. Activity Period:

a. Registration Period: September 1 (Mon.) to October 13 (Mon.), 2025

b. Sequence: Making public on the website of Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall before October 17 (Fri.), 2025

c.Contest Date: 10 am, November 25 (Tue.), 2025

d.Contest Site: Taiwan Music Institut e B1 Lecture Room Taiwan Traditional Theatre Center （No. 751 Wen lin Road, Shilin District, Taipei）

6. For registration details and important notes, please refer to the brochure.