Competition Rules

1. Description:

Young people are trailblazers when it comes to new, creative solutions to the world’s most critical environmental challenges. In order to enhance the understanding of youth towards environmental protections and also communicate about how to transfer current environmental challenges to future development opportunities, this cartoon competition is organized to have a youth-friendly way to engage more young people into environmental protection and discuss how youth can play their part in environmental protection and promoting sustainable development.

The Theme of the Cartoon Competition is “youth empowerment/youth action”. Focus on the theme of the competition, though contributions relating to environment protection are also accepted.

2. Participants

1) Students group of those from China and oversea universities,

2) Social group of professional and armature cartoonists

3. Schedule:

Submissions will be accepted beginning December 1, 2018

The deadline for entries is March 31, 2019

Notice: Since the deadline is set upon the receipt of the works, it is suggested to have the works delivered as early as possible.

4. Prize

Student group:

First Prize [1 competitor]: RMB 5,000 (pre-tax) and certification

Second Prize [2 competitors]: RMB 3,000 (pre-tax) and certification

Third Prize [3 competitors]: RMB 1,000 (pre-tax) and certification

Excellent Prize: [50 competitors]: souvenir and certification

Top-over-List Prize: souvenir

Notice: Top-over-list Prize is awarded to the top on the voting rank on the official website.

Social group:

First Prize [1 competitor]: RMB 6,000 (pre-tax) and certification

Second Prize [2 competitors]: RMB 4,000 (pre-tax) and certification

Third Prize [3 competitors]: RMB 2,000 (pre-tax) and certification

Excellent Prize: [50 competitors]: souvenir and certification

5. Organizers

China Daily, United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), China Environmental Protection Foundation(CEPF), China Journalistic Caricature Society ，Tongji University

China Daily Website, 21st Century，Newscartoon。

6. Requirements

1) There is no limitation of numbers of participant’s submission.

2) Paper submissions should not be smaller than 210 mm x 297 mm. Please print the title, participant’s name, college name, address and other contact information on the back of each submission.

3) If you submit your contribution via email, please follow the resolutions: - 300 dpi (file size no bigger than 2MB) - JPG - RGB - Longest side of the file should be under 1000 pixels

4) Criteria for paper submissions: title of the work, participant’s name, and the name of the college or university he or she attends are required, author’s pen name is optional.

Caption of email contribution should be in .TXT format and include the title of the work, participant’s name, institute participant attends, address, and telephone number.

7. Submission Format

1) Register on the competition webpage, fill in your real information and upload your submission.

2) Email your submissions to: mhds@chinadaily.com.cn

3) Mail submissions to the address found below. Please write “Cartoon Contest” on the envelope.

8. Online Entry Form

All participants need to register for the competition by completing an entry form. Fill out the form as accurately and truthfully as possible. Photocopies are acceptable. Click to download here.

9. Contact Us

Address: Newscartoon, 6/F, B3 Tower, Ziguang Building, No.11 Huixin Dongjie, Chaoyang District,Beijing 100029, P.R. China

Tel: 86-10-8488 3652 86-10-8488 3507

Website: www.newscartoon.com.cn

Email: mhds@chinadaily.com.cn

10. Additional Key Points

1) No fees needed for the competition

2) Cartoons and illustrations must be submitted

3) Winning contributions will be displayed on News Cartoon

4) Monthly champions are selected according to the number of votes and views the submission receives.

5) The result will be publicized on News Cartoon, as well as other newspapers or websites.

11. The Jury

1) The jury is made up of famous cartoonists, university professors and experts of environment-protection.

2) The jury will maintain an objective, fair and just principles of the entries submitted for judging and voting, and recommended the winners.

3) The winner will be announced in April 2019

12 Copyrights

1) The organizers reserve the right to refuse entries they consider morally, politically or religiously offensive, as well as work that is considered in violation of the acknowledged moral standards.

2) If a contribution has any intellectual property rights or copyright dispute, the organizer holds the right to revoke the participant’s eligibility to participate in the competition. Participants are solely liable for any consequence that may arise from submitting work to the competition. The participant must be the owner of all rights on the work submitted and it is the responsibility of the participant to ensure that his or her contributions to the competition do not generate any copyright or other intellectual property rights dispute.

3) News Cartoon reserves the right to use the contributions for presentation and media use.

4) Organizers and participants share the copyrights of the contributions; the organizers of the event have the right to display and distribute the works of the contestants.

5) By submitting a contribution to the competition, the participant is agreeing to accept all of the rules.

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