The National High School Debate League of China, or simply NHSDLC, is an English-language high school debate league serving mainland China. It uses the public forum debate format.[ citation needed ] Each year, the NHSDLC sees around 50,000 students participate in its debate workshops [1] and around 12,000 students participate in its regional or national tournaments that it hosts in more than 33 cities in China. [2] [3] [4] [5] According to The Economist , many students believe participating will help their application to a Western university. [6]
It was founded in 2012, [7] and it hosted one of China's first ever English-language high school national debate tournaments for local students at Peking University [8] in May 2013. Each year, its national debate championship hosted in Beijing attracts 450 students from around China. [1] NHSDLC is partnered with Harvard College Mentors for Urban Debate, [9] Penn for Youth Debate, the Princeton Debate Panel, the Chicago Debate Society, [10] the Yale Debate Association, [11] Sunrise International Education, and the Stanford Youth Debate Initiative.
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