From May 23 to 24, the 2nd 'Diplomacy in Action' National College Students Diplomatic Negotiation Competition was successfully held at the Shahe campus of China Foreign Affairs University. This year's competition was dedicated to providing university students with a practical platform for diplomatic negotiation, cultivating interdisciplinary reserve diplomatic talent with both devotion to family and country and a global vision, and injecting a steady stream of youthful momentum into the flourishing cause of major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics. Nearly eighty contestants and their supervising teachers from eighteen renowned universities across the country, including the Hong Kong region, participated in the competition.

Gao Fei, President of China Foreign Affairs University; Lin Lin, former Chinese Ambassador to Slovakia, Zimbabwe and Ethiopia; and Feng Wei, Chairman of the Beijing Wu Jianmin Public Welfare Foundation, among others, attended the opening ceremony and delivered remarks. In his remarks, President Gao Fei said that with the world landscape undergoing profound adjustments and the global situation complex and fluid, cultivating young people of the new era with devotion to family and country, a global vision, professional qualities and practical abilities is the responsibility and mission of China Foreign Affairs University. The National College Students Diplomatic Negotiation Competition builds a professional competitive platform for young people in higher education, helping them cultivate the foreign-related field, pursue diplomatic ideals and consolidate the foundation for growth. He encouraged the contestants to cherish this opportunity, compete with full spirit, learn from each other and build consensus through exchange and deliberation, and enrich their experience and improve themselves on the road of pursuing their dreams.

Feng Wei, Chairman of the Beijing Wu Jianmin Public Welfare Foundation, fondly recalled the diplomatic career of former CFAU President Ambassador Wu Jianmin and the Ambassador's outstanding contributions to China's diplomatic education. While highly commending the University's diplomatic practice education, Chairman Feng also expressed the hope that young students would inherit and carry forward the fine traditions of the older generation of diplomats and contribute the strength of youth to advancing the building of a community with a shared future for humanity.

Attending the closing ceremony were Luo Linquan, former Chinese Ambassador to Greece and Ireland; Yue Bin, former Chinese Ambassador to Georgia and the Republic of Tajikistan; and Bai Jie, Research Fellow of the Research Center for a Community with a Shared Future for Humanity and Counselor of the MFA Department of Policy Planning, among others. Xie Bohua, former Chinese Ambassador to the Republic of Vanuatu, gave a special coaching lecture to all contestants.

At the opening ceremony, the Laboratory for Diplomatic Negotiation Simulation and Data of China Foreign Affairs University released ArcMentis, a multi-agent AI coaching system for diplomatic negotiation (www.arcmentis.com). The system is China's first intelligent-agent coaching system for diplomatic negotiation, jointly developed by the Laboratory and the research team of the Wang Xuan Institute of Computer Technology at Peking University. Compared with other AI negotiation systems internationally, the system deeply integrates mature teaching practice, providing students and researchers with a structured interactive space. Its core value lies in empowering diplomatic education with AI technology and unifying research reproducibility with teaching adaptability, marking a major innovative attempt of AI technology in the cultivation of diplomatic talent and the teaching of simulated diplomatic negotiation in China.

During the two-day competition, young talents from universities across the country competed on the same stage, fully displaying their talents in simulated diplomatic negotiations and press statements — showing both their distinctive understanding of the international situation and foreign policy, and their thorough preparation, solid professional foundations and strong psychological resilience.

The competition was hosted by China Foreign Affairs University and supported by the Chinese Society of Diplomatic History of the People's Republic of China, the Beijing Wu Jianmin Public Welfare Foundation, and the CYL Committee of CFAU. Authoritative media outlets including China.org.cn, the Belt and Road Portal, the Chinese Social Sciences Net and Xinhua Silk Road covered the event.