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"And I hope they can contribute to multilateral diplomacy in the future."

Tang, who will graduate from university this summer and work for the UN Development Program's China office, says his passion for diplomacy has been nurtured by these kinds of events over the past four years.

He joined the university's Model United Nations association, the organizer of BIMUN, in 2015 and was attracted by the intense but orderly work carried out by the association.

"I busy myself in preparing and running the annual conference, making my university life very fulfilling," says Tang.

He adds that the members of the association can play different roles in the annual event, such as being delegates of countries, director or assistant director of a certain committee and also act as support staff for the conference, enhancing their leadership, critical thinking and public speaking skills.

"Through the platform provided by BIMUN, you can grow from a passive learner who is told to do research, to an assistant director who has to undertake more responsibilities to communicate with delegates from different schools and universities, then to a director who is able to independently design a committee and finally to the president who supervises the running of all the 13 committees," says Tang, a senior who has now experienced all these roles during his time at the university.