On the afternoon of February 26, the Guangdong Provincial Teochew Opera Development and Reform Association and the Beijing Jingchao Public Welfare Association held the 2024 Chinese New Year Symposium for the students of the Teochew Opera Class of the China Academy of Drama with the theme of "Inheritance, Innovation, Development and Prosperity". Cai Dongshi, former deputy secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and founding president of the Guangdong Teochew Opera Development and Reform Association, representatives of veteran artists from Shantou, Chaozhou, Jieyang and Shanwei, directors of the Guangdong Teochew Opera Development and Reform Association and Beijing Jingchao Public Welfare Association, as well as representatives and guests from Guangdong Teochew Opera Theater, Shantou Culture and Art School, Beijing Teochew Chamber of Commerce and other units gathered together to exchange views on promoting the high-quality development of Teochew Opera in the new era. All students majoring in Teochew opera in the 2021 multi-genre class of the college's performance department attended the meeting.
At the meeting, the representatives of the organizers gave special awards to Wu Jialin and Cai Jinhao, the Teochew Opera students who appeared on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Dragon, and the actors of the Guangdong Teochew Opera Troupe, and issued scholarships and grants to 28 students and students with particularly difficult family lives, with a total amount of 400,000 yuan.
Cai Dongshi said that inheritance and innovation are the key to the long-term development of Teochew Opera. At present, the development trend of Teochew Opera is good, and I believe that through the help of the older generation of artists and the efforts of Teochew Opera students, the future of Teochew Opera is bright. Chen Caixiong, chairman of the Guangdong Teochew Opera Development and Reform Association, president of the Beijing Teochew Chamber of Commerce, and chairman of the Beijing Jingchao Public Welfare Association, said that the Beijing Teochew Chamber of Commerce and the Beijing Jingchao Public Welfare Association will support the development of Teochew Opera and support young artistic talents of Teochew Opera as the basic project for the inheritance of Teochew Opera. **Scholarship and Scholarship Special Scholarship** will be set up to subsidize and reward young students studying in the Teochew Opera major of the Performing Department of the College.
The cooperation between the college and the people of Shantou began on April 18, 2021, and a strategic cooperation agreement was signed in Beijing. On September 1, 2021, 28 students enrolled in the first full-time Teochew Opera class of the college, and in October of the same year, Shantou Teaching Practice Base was set up in Guangdong Teochew Opera Theater and Shantou Culture and Art School, achieving a breakthrough in full-time undergraduate education of Teochew Opera. In the past three years, the two sides have maintained close contact, adhered to the "2+1+1" teaching arrangement in accordance with the "school + base" model, built a platform for the cultivation of opera talents, inheritance and innovation, and creative practice, and promoted the development of opera art. During the study period, the college attaches great importance to the growth of students in the Chao Opera class, builds a high-end display platform for students, and organizes students to participate in large-scale activities such as the recording of the Spring Festival Opera Gala of the First Radio and Television Station, the opening ceremony of the 6th Chinese Opera Culture Week, the exhibition of outstanding teaching achievements of the College of "Celebrating the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and the Exhibition of Outstanding Teaching Achievements of the College of "Celebrating the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China", and the 4th "Pear Blossom Cup" National Youth Opera Education and Teaching Achievements Exhibition. At the 2024 ** Radio and Television Spring Festival Gala, Wu Jialin and Cai Jinhao performed an excerpt from the classic Teochew opera "Su Liuniang" "Garden Contract", which showed the achievements of the college's talent training and the development of Teochew opera to the people of the whole country, and was a vivid demonstration of the college and the people of Shantou City to vigorously cultivate high-level Teochew opera artistic talents and implement the Teochew Opera revitalization project.