To celebrate the 2025 International Chinese Language Day, promote excellent traditional Chinese culture, and enhance cultural exchanges between China and other nations, a SCMU performance troupe was commissioned by the Center for Language Education and Cooperation of the Ministry of Education to tour Hungary, Slovakia, and Austria from May 14-26. The troupe successfully completed their cultural exchange mission themed “Colorful World, Dancing Youth”.
Led by Li Hongyan, University Party Committee Standing Committee Member and Vice President, the student and faculty performance troupe visited the University of Pécs, Hungarian-Chinese Bilingual School, University of Miskolc in Hungary; Matej Bel University, Chinese Embassy in Slovakia, and Confucius Institute in Bratislava in Slovakia; and the Vienna Chinese Education Center in Austria. The troupe conducted seven performances, four street flash mobs, and hosted two Chinese dance workshop exchanges, attracting over 1,500 local residents, students, faculty, and community members who watched and participated in interactive activities. The troupe’s exceptional dance skills, sincere emotional expression, and culturally rich artistic presentations earned unanimous praise from audiences across all three countries.
Performance at University of Miskolc, Hungary.
Photo courtesy of University of Miskolc
Chinese ethnic dance workshop in Austria.
Photo courtesy of Vienna Chinese Education Center
Performance at University of Pécs, Hungary. Photo courtesy of University of Pécs
Group photo after performance at Matej Bel University, Slovakia.
Photo by Shao Xiaoming
The activities innovatively combined theater performances, street flash mobs, and workshops, creating a vibrant platform for Chinese and international young students to “communicate through dance and make friends through music”, effectively promoting mutual understanding and cultural exchange between Chinese and Central and Eastern European youth.
Chinese Ambassador to Slovakia Cai Ge, Chinese Embassy in Hungary Counselor Sun Jie, University of Pécs Rector Attila Miseta, Hungarian-Chinese Bilingual School Principal Erdeyi Zsuzsanna, and University of Miskolc Confucius Institute Foreign Director Ke Danqing all gave high praise to the performances. The activities received extensive coverage from domestic and international media, including Xinhua News Agency, Ministry of Foreign Affairs official website, Phoenix News, Sina.com, and Hungary’s BOON network. Notably, video news report “Chinese Ethnic Song and Dance Debuts in Slovakia” by Xinhua News Agency exceeded one million views, significantly expanding the program’s impact.
This marks the ninth time SCMU has successfully undertaken an overseas cultural performance project organized by the Center for Language Education and Cooperation of the Ministry of Education. Moving forward, the university will continue leveraging its distinctive strengths in ethnic culture and arts education to promote excellent traditional Chinese culture more broadly and deeply worldwide, tell the story of the Chinese nation community, and make greater contributions to fostering exchanges between civilizations and strengthening people-to-people bonds among nations.
