We would like to express our gratitude to the youth participants from NEAR member regions of five Northeast Asian countries for participating in the 11st NEAR Youth Art Contest.

This year, highly symbolic in accordance with the theme of the contest and structurally creative works were selected as winning works.

A. No. of Participants: 827 artworks in total – China: 587; Japan: 54; Korea: 57; Mongolia: 40; Russia: 89

B. Winners: 200 persons (1 first prize winner; 10 second prize winners: 20 participation award) winners; special recognition award winner 169)

For more information on the winners, please see the attachment.

Thank you again for your participation in this contest, and we look forward to seeing you next year.

We plan to send out certificates of awards and special gifts to the awardees and certificates of participation to all participants in mid-December.