On August 8th, the 6th dragon-lion dance tournament opened in the stadium at Nanjing Forestry University held by the Dragon-lion dance association of the Federation of University Sports of China in which 14 girl students instructed by 3 teachers won the silver medal in the compulsory exercise, a bronze medal in free exercise, and one silver medal in the Lotus-dragon dance with its total scores ranking the first in women teams.
The tournament so far has been held for 5 sessions with its debut at Changsha City in Hunan province in 2003 drawing teams from 137 universities and colleges. The 6th tournament attracted 41 teams with 972 competitors from 15 provinces that had tough contests in dragon-lion dance, drum-gong performance etc.