Students at international schools in Shanghai who were winners in an essay competition received their awards on Wednesday. The 2019 Shanghai Schools for Children of Foreign Personnel Students Essay Competition was the latest event in a program that began in 2011 with the aim of promoting Chinese culture in schools with activities including drama and reading Chinese classics. The competition theme this year was “The City I Live in: Shanghai” and it attracted 542 essays from 23 schools in the form of letters, diaries, poetry and prose in Chinese. Sixty-two of them won first prizes in three age groups.