UM Mandarin Debating Team wins tenth championship at local inter-university debate competition

The University of Macau (UM) Mandarin Debating Team won the championship at a local inter-university debate competition for higher education students organised by the Education and Youth Development Bureau of the Macao SAR Government. This is their tenth time winning a championship at the competition. A total of seven higher education institutions in Macao joined this year’s competition. The UM Mandarin Debating Team beat their counterparts in two rounds of preliminaries and the semi-final. In the final competition, the team defeated the team from the Macau University of Science and Technology and won the championship. Zhang Yupeng and Hu Zuming, students in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FAH), won the Best Debater Awards in the preliminaries, and Wang Haoran, a master’s student in FAH, captured the Best Debater Award in the final competition.