Student Zhao Yanchu and Coach Liu Lisha

The 2018 National English Competition for College Students (NECCS) finals – China’s largest and most comprehensive English language contest – were held on May 20. It is the only national college students’ English language competition jointly sponsored by the Ministry of Education’s Higher Education Department and the National Foreign Language Teaching and Research Association. The Guangdong Final took place at the Guangzhou University of Finance and Economics campus, with approximately 45 colleges and universities bringing a total of 289 students. Four categories were used to separate students, based on their major and experience. SUSTech undergraduate Zhao Yanchu achieved 117.5 points (out of 150 points), an outstanding result and was awarded the Grand Prize in the C category (non-English majors), ranking second out of 208. She has also qualified for the oral English final on June 3.

Within the last two years, SUSTech undergraduates not only have won the grand prizes but also topped the grand prize candidate lists in this competition. Such excellent results reflect the quality of CLE small group classes’ teaching and one-to-one contest preparation tutoring.