Plan for the "Youth Chapter · Dreaming of Northern Frontier" Youth Integrated-Media Works Collection and Exhibition Activity
I. Activity Purpose
Closely centering on fostering a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation, and showcasing the core directions of Inner Mongolia's high-quality development in the new era, youth staying in and revitalizing Inner Mongolia, campus ideological education, and youth employment and entrepreneurship, this activity calls for short-video integrated-media works and ideological cases (or micro-course works) from youth teachers and students, young backbone talents from all walks of life, and young online content creators on a regular basis. From a youth perspective, it tells Inner Mongolia's stories well, building an integrated-media publicity matrix for young people across the country to pay attention to, head for and build the northern frontier.
II. Activity Period
October 1, 2026 – December 31, 2026
III. Organizers and Undertakers
Organizers: The Cyberspace Administration of the CPC Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Committee, the Department of Education of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and the Communist Youth League of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Committee.
Undertaker: China Youth Network.
IV. Collection Themes
This collection closely centers on fostering a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation, based on the ideological guidance, growth and mission of Inner Mongolia's youth in the new era, and deeply integrated with Inner Mongolia's regional characteristics, educational foundation and historical mission. It precisely collects high-quality integrated-media works and practical achievements from youth teachers and students, young backbone talents from all walks of life, and young online content creators. The activity deeply cultivates Inner Mongolia's local education scenes, grassroots practice positions and theoretical communication fertile soil, excavates the distinctive practices and vivid stories of young people of all ethnic groups taking root in, building and dedicating themselves to Inner Mongolia, creating integrated-media ideological results that fit Inner Mongolia's youth, highlight the northern-frontier demeanor and suit online communication.
Works should closely follow the theme of "Youth Chapter · Dreaming of Northern Frontier," revolve around five creative directions—cultural inheritance · passing the torch, green waters and mountains · coexistence and protection, unity and synergy · steadfast progress, striving with me · youthful responsibility, and new homeland look · times change—and be created and submitted as short videos, ideological cases and micro-courses. The specific collection requirements are as follows:
(1) Short-Video Track
This track is for original short-video works, focusing on Inner Mongolia's grassroots frontline development, border-region social practice, job achievement, public-welfare volunteer service, and deeply integrated with local practice scenes such as Inner Mongolia's rural revitalization, grassroots governance, border guarding, ethnic unity building, ecological protection and northern-frontier cultural construction, highlighting the core theme of youth dedicating to the northern frontier, taking root in Inner Mongolia's land, and working hard with a sense of mission.
Works are presented in short-video form, truthfully showing the youthful posture of Inner Mongolia's young people in the new era who are unafraid of hardship, work diligently, dedicate selflessly and take on responsibilities.
(2) Ideological-Case and Micro-Course Track
This track collects two types of works: ideological-practice cases and original ideological micro-courses, based on the reality of Inner Mongolia's educational development, campus ethnic unity, harmonious and stable education environment, and high-quality education development, closely following the educational core goals of ideological education, heart-nourishing and soul-consolidating.
Ideological-case works are presented in Word format, exploring the education path of the Party's innovative theory empowering Inner Mongolia's youth to grow and consolidating their ideals and beliefs.
Micro-course works are presented as video (MP4 format) + PPT, conducting precise and immersive ideological education in the form of lightweight quality online micro-courses, using youth-adapted discourse and diversified expression.
(3) Youth Imagery Track
This track is for original (historical) photo works, divided into historical imagery and new-era imagery, focusing on the striving journey of young people in various fields of Inner Mongolia since the autonomous region's founding, deeply integrated with local practice scenes such as agriculture and animal husbandry production, industrial construction, ecological governance, technological innovation, education and medical care, cultural inheritance, border guarding, rural revitalization, and volunteer service.
The Youth Imagery track is presented in photo form, highlighting the core theme of witnessing Inner Mongolia's development through imagery and recording youthful responsibility through photos.
V. Work Requirements
All entries in this collection must strictly fit the activity purpose, closely follow each track's core creative direction, and overall follow the creation standards of clear theme, prominent features, solid content, standardized form and compliant copyright. Specific requirements are as follows:
(1) Clear Theme with Correct Political Orientation:
All works must uphold the correct political direction and public-opinion guidance, closely following the core themes of the Party's innovative theory in the new era, ethnic unity and progress, ideological education, youthful striving, and theoretical empowerment.
(2) Grounded in Reality with Innovative Features:
Innovative creative perspectives, narrative methods, presentation vehicles and communication ideas are encouraged, highlighting youthful, localized and online innovative traits.
(3) Original and Compliant, Strictly Protecting IP:
All entries must be original works; the participant owns the complete, lawful and valid intellectual property rights of the work, and plagiarism, embezzlement, spin-off rewriting and unauthorized use of others' works are strictly prohibited, as are the use of unauthorized images, videos, audio, copy and other materials. Works must not involve any legal issues such as copyright disputes, portrait disputes or privacy disputes; any non-compliant work found will be immediately disqualified. The organizers have the right to use the entries for public-interest display, publicity, promotion and broadcast, while the author retains the right of attribution.
VI. Submission Methods and Related Rules
To standardize the submission process of this youth integrated-media works collection and ensure orderly and efficient collection, all entries must be organized and submitted strictly according to unified submission standards, with clear submission materials, naming norms, format requirements and invalid-submission definitions. The specific norms are as follows:
(1) Submission Address
The only official submission channel for this collection is the special activity webpage of China Youth Network. Individual and institutional participants must log in to the official China Youth Network special page and complete account verification, information filling, material upload and submission following the page guidance. Email submission, offline reporting, third-party platform submission and other methods are not accepted. All entries are uniformly collected, reviewed and categorized on the special webpage backend.
(2) Submission Materials
The participant must submit the corresponding track's entry and supporting materials in full; none may be missing. The short-video track submits the original short-video product and a work brief; the ideological-case track submits the complete case and relevant supporting materials; the quality micro-course track submits the micro-course video product, accompanying courseware (PPT) and course brief; the youth-imagery track submits single photos or photo series, work brief and originality statement.
All submitted materials must be complete, truthful and valid in version. Supporting materials may include on-site activity photos, implementation data proofs, communication-effect screenshots, education-result certificates and other relevant materials, fully supporting the authenticity of the work's results.
(3) Naming Norms
All submitted works and compressed packages must adopt a standardized naming format: Track name – Institution/Individual – Work name – Contact person – Contact phone. Multiple works must be named independently and submitted separately; packaged mixed submission or uniform vague naming is strictly prohibited. All text naming must be standard and accurate, with no typos or special symbols, ensuring staff can accurately categorize, archive and verify work information.
(4) Format Requirements
Short-video works must be in MP4 format, over 15 seconds in duration, with clear pictures, smooth audio, complete editing and coherent narrative.
Ideological-case works must be in Word document format, with over 2,000 characters, neat layout, standard fonts, reasonable text-image pairing and accurate, detailed data.
Quality micro-course videos must be in MP4 format, with accompanying courseware in PPT format, video duration over 5 minutes, with PPT determined by each micro-course video, stable footage, clear explanation and rigorous content, overall suited to online broadcast and teaching-promotion scenarios.
Imagery works may be single photos or photo series. Historical old photos may be submitted as electronic scans above 300dpi; those with unknown dates should be marked "approx. year XX."
All submitted materials must be openable, playable and viewable normally, without damage or format disorder.
(5) Definition of Invalid Submissions
Any of the following shall be deemed an invalid submission and excluded from the collection and review: failure to complete submission within the prescribed time; missing submission materials, non-conforming formats, or non-standard naming that is not rectified as required; plagiarism, spin-off rewriting, copyright theft and other violations; works with deviated orientation, themes inconsistent with the call, or detached from collection requirements; damaged submitted files that cannot be viewed or played normally and are not resubmitted overdue; duplicate submissions, malicious multiple submissions, or false material supporting evidence; and any infringement disputes, privacy issues or other situations not complying with the collection rules. Invalid submissions will not be accepted, with no separate notice for supplementary submission or correction.
VII. Specialized Review Criteria
This collection is uniformly arranged by four units—the Cyberspace Administration of the CPC Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Committee, the Department of Education of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the Communist Youth League of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Committee, and China Youth Network—adhering to fairness, impartiality and openness. All outstanding works that meet the collection requirements, involve no online ideological issues, and promote social positive energy will be uniformly broadcast and rolled on the official special page of China Youth Network, giving full play to the exemplary leading and radiating role of outstanding works. The specialized review criteria for each track are as follows:
(1) Short-Video Track Review Criteria
The comprehensive review focuses on the striving demeanor of border-region youth and grassroots practical responsibility, comprehensively considering the work's ideological connotation and value orientation, documentary authenticity and practical foundation, creative innovation and audiovisual quality, regional characteristics and communication value.
(2) Ideological-Case and Micro-Course Track Review Criteria
Based on the reality of Inner Mongolia's educational development and campus ideological education, focusing on the effectiveness of ideological guidance and youth innovation traits, the case quality is comprehensively evaluated from multiple dimensions, highlighting theoretical professionalism, emphasizing practical innovation, stressing regional adaptability and result replicability. It effectively supports campus ideological education, the creation of ethnic unity and progress, and students' growth, possessing good campus-promotion value and exemplary reference significance.
(3) Youth Imagery Track
Works must closely follow the theme of youth achievement in various fields of Inner Mongolia since the autonomous region's founding, based on local practices such as agriculture and animal husbandry, ecological governance, and border guarding, witnessing the era and recording youthful responsibility through imagery. The authenticity of historical facts and figures/events must be strictly verified; historical imagery scans and reprints must comply with submission norms and not alter the original picture; image captions must completely mark shooting time, place, figures and event background. Copyright authorization must also be verified to eliminate false materials. Scarcity of historical materials and storytelling power are prioritized; fictional content and works with questionable copyright are directly disqualified.
Special note: The review criteria, review process and final review results of each track of this activity are solely the responsibility of the corresponding organizing review unit, and the final interpretation right of the activity's relevant rules belongs to each track's review unit.