SU Int’l Office Gives Red Envelopes to Overseas Students for Lunar New Year

With the Chinese New Year approaching, over 330 exchange students to Soochow University received warm surprises from the Office of International and Cross-Strait Academic Exchange (OICAE) in late January, 2021. Red envelopes and a live interactive lottery had helped this year’s event set new records for the Office in the number of participants and text responses.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many exchange students could not go back to their countries for the winter break or Lunar New Year; therefore, the OICAE decided to give warmth to and create holiday atmosphere for those students with some new year celebration activities.

The students were given not only a red envelope of NT$300 but also a gift by checking in on the Office’s Facebook page. They also entered a lucky draw by interacting with the staff through live streaming and leaving the designated message: “Hope to go home in 2021.”

The live streaming of the raffle on January 20^th drew a record high of 121 viewers and 733 entries of interactive messages in all online events held by the OICAE.

Director of the OICAE Shih-Ho Wang hoped that the event could give overseas students an “undiscounted” feel of the holiday season. He also reminded the students of staying healthy and safe while enjoying a happy winter vacation.