On May 8, 2021, the award concert of "Friendship is a Song" -- Jiangsu Foreigners Singing Chinese Songs Competition was held in Nanjing, which was sponsored by Jiangsu People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and Jiangsu Federation of Literary and Art Circles, organized by Jiangsu Provincial Office of Friendship with Foreign Countries and Provincial Musical Association, and co-organized by various municipal Friendship with Foreign Countries Association and Municipal Federation of Literary and Art. Vice Governer Hui Jianlin, and vice chairman of the provincial political consultative conference, Yanli, attended the meeting. More than 200 people attended the event, including old provincial leaders and guests from home and abroad .

There were 162 foreign friends from 54 countries who participated in the preliminary round of the competition. After the preliminary round and the final round, 21 winning works were finally performanced. The foreign students from our school recorded a song "A Letter Home", describing their journey during the epidemic prevention period and their missing for their families in the motherland. They were full of real feelings and successfully entered the final. The final work "Blue and White Porcelain" reflects international students' love for Chinese traditional culture and modern culture. After studying hard and practicing hard and rehearsing attentively, it was praised by the judging group and won the merit award of the contest.

This contest fully demonstrates the high quality of our school's training for foreign students and the unique style of foreign students studying in JSIT.