BiUH Youth Exploring the World | Our Students Won Multiple Awards at the 2026 Model United Nations Conference in Lingshui, Hainan

From 30 October to 1 November, nine BiUH student delegates travelled to the Lingshui Li’an International Education Innovation Pilot Zone in Hainan for the 2026 Model United Nations Conference. Our delegation did us proud: ZUO Bowen received an Honourable Mention (Second Prize) in the Boao Forum for Asia committee, PAN Yingning took Third Prize and the Best Presentation Award in the UN Tourism committee, and BEN Weihang received an Honourable Mention (Second Prize) in the Press and Media Centre.

Our delegation was also named Best Delegation of the conference, and Ms YANG Kehui from the Student Affairs Office received the Outstanding Advisor Award.

This MUN journey has been a rewarding and thought-provoking experience for our delegates. After three days of immersive academic debate and inter-university exchange, the students shared their growth and reflections from their own experience.

This conference marked the first time that universities from across Hainan gathered at the pilot zone for MUN academic exchanges. Youth delegates from institutions across the province came together to consult, debate and collaborate on a wide range of cutting-edge international issues and contemporary global governance affairs, creating an international dialogue platform for university students in Hainan.

To ensure the quality of our participation and give delegates the support they needed, our Student Affairs Office ran a series of pre-conference training sessions before the event. Covering core areas such as MUN rules, conference etiquette, position paper writing, topic research, public speaking and multilateral negotiation, the training targeted the gaps in the students’ knowledge and skills. This systematic and carefully structured preparation helped the delegates grasp conference procedure quickly, build a solid academic base and clarify the focus of their agendas, lifting the team’s overall readiness and laying firm groundwork for the debates ahead.

During the three-day conference, our nine delegates stepped into their roles straight away. They threw themselves into every agenda item with a rigorous academic attitude and a calm, confident presence. Before each session they went over the background guides again and again, weighed up each country’s position from several angles and polished their papers; in session they spoke up, argued their case, negotiated rationally and reached out to delegates from other universities in search of common ground. In that clash of ideas and exchange of views, the breadth of vision, clear logic and all-round grounding of BiUH students came through clearly.

After rounds of rigorous academic competition, our delegation achieved outstanding results:

● ZUO Bowen: Honourable Mention (Second Prize), Boao Forum for Asia Committee

● PAN Yingning: Third Prize and Best Presentation Award, UN Tourism Committee

● BEN Weihang: Honourable Mention (Second Prize), Press and Media Centre

● Our delegation was named Best Delegation

● Ms YANG Kehui from the Student Affairs Office received the Outstanding Advisor Award.

And with that, the three-day conference came to a close. Looking back — studying the issues before the sessions, debating across the table, reviewing every session afterwards — our delegates grew more of a team with every hour; and in exchange with outstanding students from across Hainan, we saw our gaps more clearly and found our direction. The gavel has fallen, but it is not the end: carrying what we have learned and the friends we have made, the BiUH delegates will step onto bigger stages, better prepared.