Star of Chinese Language Learner and his 'Chinese Dream'

For Alistair Bayley, an Australian student who just won as grand champion of the 12th "Chinese Bridge" Chinese Proficiency Competition for foreign university students, his future dream is deeply connected with the "Chinese Dream."

The young student from Monash University beat 123 top Chinese language students from 77 countries with outstanding performance in the final competition. He is the first Australian student who was granted the title "The Star of Chinese Language Learner".

As a fluent Mandarin speaker, Bayley wants to contribute to the "Chinese Dream" in the future. "'Chinese Dream' is a broad dream where anyone can contribute to and make a positive influence towards achieving that goal. It contributes to that harmony society idea, it's not something that one person can achieve," Bayley said in an interview with Xinhua.

The "Chinese dream", brought forward by Chinese President Xi Jinping, is a dream of "great renewal of the Chinese nation" that is not only shared by Chinese people but also by the rest of the world.

The "Chinese Dream" embodies world peace, common development, win-win cooperation and sustainable prosperity, which are shared aspirations of people from around the world, especially the young generation.

With a great passion for communication, Alistair plans to make full use of his knowledge about China. "I love communicating with people, I love being middle man and helping two parties to understand each other, so that's the kind of jobs I would invest myself in," said Bayley.

He said that if he can act as a middle man or mediator between any other countries and China, he would be able to contribute to the realization of the "Chinese Dream", whether it will be as a Chinese teacher overseas or English teacher in China.

To further develop his skills, Bayley is planning to go to Fudan University to study Chinese for one year as an exchange student next year. "I'm trying to open myself up to as many opportunities as I can so that I can end up working, if not in China but at least somewhere with a close relationship with China, where I can use my knowledge about China and Chinese," he said.

Born in Japan but moved with his parents to Shanghai in 2000, Bayley spent seven years of his childhood in China. Since then he began his journey of exploring the world of Chinese language and culture.

His general plan in the next five to 10 years is to work in an international scale company at its head office in China. "I will be dealing with marrying up the two between what the western companies want to achieve in China and what China can offer, and what China wants from the western companies as well, and how best to marry them up so that it works in both parties' interests," Bayley said.

Bayley said that China is deeply involved with the world in economic development and the resulting interdependence among the countries would bring about harmony.

"Some people are slightly impatient with China's development.I think they set up a really high standard for China at this stage of development," he said, adding that "A lot of people forget that developed countries like the United States, Britain and Europe have all been through that kind of process before and they are trying to set high standards that even developed countries are now struggling to keep them."