At China-Singapore Children & Youth Bilingual Speech Competition 2011-2012 in the Garden City, 150 students from 16 Suzhou schools competed with 150 Singaporean counterparts, and 20 of them won prizes of the first, second, and third places.

Boys and girls from Suzhou Foreign Language School are singing an English song

Jointly organized by Education Office of Chinese Embassy in Singapore, Jiangsu Youth Development Foundation, and Suzhou Youth & Children Centre, the event aimed to promote cultural and educational exchanges between the two countries and to cultivate quality talents.

Qi Ji, a 7-year-old from SIP Xincheng Garden Primary School and the youngest contestant at the Competition, wins the first prize

A girl from Suzhou Lida Middle School (Right) and her partner at the Speech Competition

Local students also visited Singaporean schools and sat in at their bilingual and bi-cultural classes.