Beijing Women's Federation

The Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao-Taiwan Youth Painting Exchange Event (Macao) was recently held by Beijing Women's Association for Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Compatriots and Overseas Chinese, under the guidance of Beijing Women's Federation (BWF), Hong Kong Federation of Women (HKFW) and the Women's General Association of Macao (WGAM) in South China's Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR).

Vice-President of the BWF Zhao Hongwei led a delegation to make preparations for and attend the special event in Macao. Bai Bing, Deputy Director of the publicity and cultural department of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in Macao, Pansy Ho Chiu-king, Member of the BWF Standing Committee and Chairperson of Beijing Women's Association for Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Compatriots and Overseas Chinese, Ho Teng Iat, Permanent President of the WGAM, Lau Kam-ling, President of the WGAM, Wong Yu Pok Marina, Vice-President of the HKFW, and Zhang Chun, Dean of the School of Arts at Renmin University of China attended the event. Zhong Jin, Executive Vice-President of the Beijing Women's Association for Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Compatriots and Overseas Chinese, Zhang Zhiyu and Wang Xiaotong, two members of the association, presided over the event.

Zhao said that the exchange event has drawn a set of beautiful pictures featuring positive Chinese family value and shown the positive image of children in the new era. She added that the Macao leg of the thematic event and the participation of children from Taiwan have further underscored the vital importance of painting in promoting the exchanges and integration between children and families from Beijing, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

Pansy Ho Chiu-king said the event has been held for the third consecutive year and it is mainly designed to build a social platform for children's aesthetic education and cultural and artistic exchanges among teenagers from the four regions so as to foster their common sense of the Chinese nation and nurture patriotism.

Lau said children have depicted beautiful stories behind their happy family and conveyed their aspiration as well as vision toward the building of a harmonious country. She asked all attendees to closely follow the development of the country and work together to plant the seeds of outstanding family tie, value and tradition into the heart of children.

Since its opening in May, the event has received 5,037 submissions. A total of 247 contestants from Macao won honors in four categories. Some participants cut the tape to open the works exhibition in Macao.

Organizers held a thematic forum on aesthetic education and the inheritance and development of fine family value. Zhang delivered the keynote speech. Wang Xiaotong, Director of Fine Art Education Department at Capital Normal University, Tian Fengyin, a painter, Long Niannan, a teacher from China National Children's Center, and Wu Jianying, an arts teacher from Macao, held discussions over the relationship between aesthetic education and culture, life, and children's growth.

The event also invited Pui Ching Middle School's chorus to give a dance performance.

Those in attendance of the event included representatives from Macao Education and Youth Development Bureau, Macao Cultural Center, BWF's group members and schools and institutions in Macao and students and their parents.