2025 "See the World at WUT" Fengxing International Culture Festival of Wuhan University of Technology Kicks Off

The warm winter sun nourishes the campus, where diverse cultures blend and coexist harmoniously. On November 22, the 2025 "See the World at WUT" Fengxing International Culture Festival of Wuhan University of Technology kicked off at the South Lake Campus. International students and representatives of Chinese teachers and students gathered to attend this cross-border cultural feast.

This year's cultural festival adheres to the concept of "See the World at WUT, Understand China through the World". It sets up four sections—cultural exhibition booths, artistic performances, intangible cultural heritage experiences, and AI interactions—building a comprehensive and three-dimensional cross-cultural exchange platform.

"We hope to take culture as a bridge, facilitating international students in understanding China on the campus of Wuhan University of Technology, and enabling the world to see a credible, lovable, and respectable China through the window of WUT," said Mai Liqiang, vice president of Wuhan University of Technology, in his speech. The university is vigorously advancing the "4310 Internationalization Action Plan", and the cultural festival is a vivid practice of this plan.

In the global cultural exhibition area, the distinctive national booths became the highlight. Ye Wen, an international student from Saudi Arabia, introduced his hometown's cuisine and characteristic handicrafts to visitors in Chinese. The Myanmar student team decorated their booth with red sandalwood flowers and oil umbrellas, where the rhythms of traditional musical instruments and dances complemented each other. The Chinese booth responded with a "Jingchu Culture Zone". Paper-cutting artists taught their skills on site, while sugar painting and clay figurines attracted students from various countries to stop and watch. Martial arts performances drew bursts of applause. Wei Madi, an exchange student from France, excitedly showed her "Today's Headlines" work printed on the AI newspaper machine. "It's amazing! I'm in the newspaper!" The exchange program of the Confucius Institute at Wuhan University of Technology-Lorraine University, where she participates, is an important part of the university's international cooperation network.

Also on display were award-winning works of international students from various competitions, such as the "International Cultural Trade" Talent Selection Competition and the First Hubei Province International Students Short Video Competition. Works like "A Journey Along the Yangtze River" co-shot by Nicaraguan master's student Danny and Nepalese undergraduate Mahar, "The Romantic Beauty and Vibrant Development of Wuhan, Hubei, Which Are Jointly Painting the Most Splendid Picture of Youth with Me" by Vietnamese master's student Nguyen Vi Vi, and "The Appointment with the Yangtze River: New Looks of Hubei in the Eyes of a Cambodian International Student" by Cambodian doctoral student Lin Jinfeng, recorded their growth journey in Hubei from unique perspectives and told the beauty and development of Wuhan, Hubei, winning unanimous praise from the on-site audience.

The "university-police-local safety service station" at the event also attracted much attention. It is an epitome of the innovative safety guarantee model for international students built by Wuhan University of Technology. Police officers from Wuhan Public Security Bureau Exit-Entry Administration, Hongshan Sub-bureau, and Mafangshan Police Station also came to the scene, interacting cordially with international students, answering their questions, and helping them improve their safety protection capabilities through multilingual manuals. The number of on-site visitors exceeded 3,000, and the photo live broadcast received over 500,000 views.

The artistic performance brought the cultural festival to a successful conclusion. The song and dance "Love Each Other" co-performed by international and Chinese students pushed the on-site atmosphere to a climax, with songs in different languages blending into the same melody. Huang Hongmei, dean of the School of International Education of WUT, said that the school will continue to improve the "trinity international education system" of "studying in China, Sino-foreign cooperative education, and studying abroad", making the cultural festival an "important window" for promoting mutual learning between Chinese and foreign civilizations and contributing educational strength to building a community with a shared future for mankind.