LEADING ORIENTAL NEWS HAMBURG On 24 October 2025, the highly anticipated “2025 Big Ben Awards Global Ceremony” & the “28th World Elite Youth Leaders Summit” were grandly held in Hamburg, Germany. Guests from multiple countries, including Germany, the United Kingdom, China, and the United States, gathered to engage in in-depth dialogues on topics such as charitable causes, green environmental protection, the integration of Eastern and Western cultures, and mutual learning in intangible cultural heritage and tea civilization.
The event was guided by the Chinese Section of the Big Ben Awards Committee, the World Chinese Youth Chamber of Commerce, and the World Chinese Media Federation. It was jointly organized by the European Continental Region of the Chinese Section of the Big Ben Awards Committee, and the German Chinese Youth Federation, with global coordination by the British Chinese Youth Association. The Co-organizers included the German Hakka Association, the Russian Overseas Chinese Youth Federation, the American Chinese Youth Chamber of Commerce, the Seoul Chinese Immigrants Association in Korea, the Australia-China Cultural Friendship Association, and the France-China Culture and Arts Exchange Association, among other institutions.
This marks the first time the Big Ben Awards have been held in Germany again after 15 years since 2010. Professor Yinya Jonsson Li, the Chinese founder of the Big Ben Awards, delivered a keynote speech at the ceremony, reviewing the 17-year development journey of the BBA since the establishment in 2008 and specifically mentioning the grand event of the Outstanding Young Persons Selection held in Germany in 2010. He also read out congratulatory letters from dignitaries such as Dr. Peter Tschentscher, First Mayor of Hamburg; Koorosh Armi, Co-Chair of the Social Democratic Party and Hamburg Member of Parliament; Selina Storm, Chair of the Green Party in Hamburg; and Nikola Tunici MDHB, Hamburg Member of Parliament from the Christian Democratic Union.
During the ceremony, Yinya Li officially announced the list of winners for the “2025 Big Ben Awards Global Ten Outstanding Chinese Young Persons,” which included:
CHIANG Wan-an, Mayor of Taipei City
FAN Zhendong, Olympic table tennis champion
LIN Yue, Olympic diving champion and public welfare advocate
Hazel CHU, Former Mayor of Dublin, Ireland, and Chair of the Green Party
SHU Qi, Actress and Best Director at the Busan International Film Festival
TAN Yuanyuan, Ballet dancer and cover feature of Time Magazine’s “Asian Heroes”
CAI Long, Inheritor of intangible cultural heritage and founder of Jian Kiln Hundred Flowers Jian Ware
MAO Wenchao and QU Fang, Co-founders of Xiaohongshu
Professor Kay Tye, American systems neuroscientist and recipient of the Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists
Additionally, this year’s Big Ben Awards also presented several specialized awards, including the “CHT Prize of BBA” focusing on world heritage and tea culture, the “Art Prize of BBA” recognizing artistic achievements, and the “Hippocrates Prize of BBＡ” acknowledging contributions to medicine and physiological health. Simultaneously, the organizing committee released authoritative lists such as the “BBA Global Fortune Top 500”, “BBA Hundred Richest List”, “BBA World Tourism Destinations Top 10”, “BBA Global Brand List”, “BBA Global Tea Lounge List”, “BBA the King of the Tea aournd the World”, etc.
In terms of individual prizes, Professor ZHANG Jianwei, life-long Academician of Academy of Sciences in Hamburg Germany, received the “BBA Global Venus Models for Science and Technology Prize”; Dr. LI Hongfen, Research Fellow at the International Chinese Medicine cancer Research Center of Israel, was awarded the “BBA Outstanding Chinese Achievement Prize”; LI Wenting, a Chinese dance promoter in the United States, received the “BBA Outstanding Chinese Young Person Prize in the U.S.A”; CHEN Xingchen, a British finance AI expert, was honored with the “BBA Outstanding Chinese Young Persons Prize in Europe.” Wang Xinyi, a violinist studying at the Conservatory of Musicand Theatre in Hamburg (Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg), was awarded the “BBA German Outstanding International Chinese Student Prize” and delivered a stunning performance of Paganini’s Caprice No. 13, earning a full house of applause.
It is worth mentioning that ZENG Qiuping, President of IDENCOM Multinational Corporation and winner of “2010 BBA German Ten Outstanding Chinese Young Persons Prize”, traveled specially from Berlin to Hamburg to attend the ceremony. He shared: “In the 15 years since receiving the award, my enterprise has continuously grown. As a Chinese individual in Europe, being able to gain international recognition through Chinese wisdom and efforts is a positive force for global cooperation, especially in today’s era of rising protectionism, making it all the more precious.”
ZHANG Xingqin, the President of the Sino-European Technology and Business Association and Chairman of the German HansaPlus Group, won the 2025 BBA Golden Mulberry Prize for European Outstanding Chinese Entrepreneur, stated: “Promoting international green environmental protection, intangible cultural heritage, and the shared development of tea civilization is the mission of contemporary Chinese entrepreneurs. Only by integrating technological innovation with public welfare practices can green concepts take root in people’s hearts, especially in fostering environmental awareness and a spirit of charity among the youth, making mutual learning among civilizations a bridge connecting the world.”
The “2025 BBA German Outstanding Chinese Young Persons Prize” was awarded to Hanke GUO, who enrolled as an undergraduate at Humboldt University of Berlin at the age of 15 and is now a Ph.D. candidate at the Technical University of Munich, a judge for the German Mathematics Olympiad, and hailed as a “German mathematics genius.” He traveled seven hours by train from Munich to Hamburg and shared his valuable experience participating in the Fields Medal team competition during the discussion session.
At the conclusion of the event, the organizers and participants jointly adopted the trilingual (Chinese, English, and German) “2025 Big Ben Awards · Hamburg Declaration—Building a Green Planet Together, Voicing a New Civilization.” The declaration emphasized: “The fate of humanity is interconnected, civilizations thrive through exchange, the Earth becomes sustainable through consensus, and the future brightens through action.” It called for promoting equal dialogue and mutual learning between Chinese and Western civilizations, making green the Earth’s foundation, intangible cultural heritage a bond of civilization, and youth a force for change, thereby fostering resonance and coexistence between Chinese and Western cultures.
